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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 31st, 2009
David Prentice at the FRC blog suggests that due to an apparent lack of genetic (i.e., racial) diversity in embryonic stem cell lines recently approved for research by President Obama, scientists will be looking for non-Caucasian/European/Middle Eastern/East Asian embryos. Prentice quotes University of Michigan researcher, Prof. Sean Morrison, as saying that his group will also [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 2nd, 2009
In a marked departure from the Bush administration mandate, the National Institutes of Health today authorized the use of embryonic stem cell lines taken from “leftover” frozen embryos at two infertility clinics. Note that these embryos were originally conceived to become living children of their parent/donors; now under the Obama administration such “leftovers” can be [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 20th, 2009
What? After President Obama expanded the use of federal funds for embryonic stem cell research? The New York Times has the story: The university’s board of regents is scheduled to take up the matter on Friday [November 20], and if it approves the restrictions — some opponents of the research say they have the votes, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 31st, 2009
The London Times is reporting that Birmingham rocker Tony Iommi has elected to undergo adult stem cell treatment in order to help restore cartilage in his hand. Just in time for Halloween, here’s Black Sabbath playing “Iron Man.”
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 4th, 2009
In a recent New England Journal of Medicine interview, National Institute of Health’s director Francis Collins was queried about stem cell research. His response is telling in what it lacks: he fails to mention proven results using adult stem cells: Steinbrook: What will the results of stem-cell research mean for human health? Collins: My crystal [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 23rd, 2009
From Medical News Today: New stem cell studies at the University of Maryland Dental School demonstrate that surgeons could one day routinely use strong, moldable, and injectable pastes to regenerate needed bone tissue to repair broken bones, fractures, genetic defects, even combat bone wounds. . . The Dental School presentation showed that human stem cells [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 27th, 2009
From Stem Cell Research News: Animals being tested using Geron Corporation’s treatment for spinal cord injury developed cysts at the injury sites, a finding that led the U.S. FDA to place a clinical hold on a planned human trial of the treatment, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based stem cell firm said on August 27. However, Geron [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 21st, 2009
Perhaps so, according to this piece from Reuters. iPSCs are induced pluripotent stem cells, which are made from adult cells yet behave like embryonic stem cells. iPSCs do not require the destruction of embryos and, since they are the patient’s own cells, are not likely to be rejected. Ordinary cells reprogrammed to act like embryonic [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 6th, 2009
You may not like it, but federal taxpayer dollars will now go to experimenting on stem cells taken from human embryos, beyond those stem cell lines approved by the Bush administration, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) 2009 Guidelines on Human Stem Cell Research. The Guidelines go into effect July 7. According to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 25th, 2009
You can read Ms. Somerville’s clear and compelling treatment of the ESCR (embryonic stem cell research) issue here.
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., M.S., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves as an adjunct professor of philosophy at Lindenwood University's Belleville, IL campus. He is general editor of Natural Law: A Lutheran Reappraisal (CPH, 2011), author of "Natural Law, Human Sexuality, and Forde's 'Acid Test'" appearing in that volume, is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas?, and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.
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