Bioethike

The devil hates Eve, for she is the mother of all living; indeed prefigured by the blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, she is the New Eve, the Church, the Bride of Christ. Throughout history Satan has has pursued Eve in order to subjugate, control, disparage, exploit, and ultimately destroy her. No small wonder [...]

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From the Family Research Council blog: The President’s Council on Bioethics is no more. With a one-day notice, the members were told in a letter from the President that their services were no longer required. Pack up, get out. Forget the fact that they had a couple of interesting reports coming out soon, one more [...]

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From FRCblog.com: While the federal government lurches toward ignoring patients and wasting more taxpayer dollars on unethical, unsuccessful embryonic stem cell research, there are some bright spots in several states where ethics, and real adult stem cell treatments, are being promoted. LOUISIANA Prohibiting Human-Animal Hybrids SB 115 has been sent to Gov. Jindal for his [...]

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Science Daily is reporting that researchers at the University of Buffalo have found that adult bone marrow stem cells, when injected into skeletal muscle, can repair heart tissue. Using an animal model, the researchers showed that this non-invasive procedure increased myocytes, or heart cells, by two-fold and reduced cardiac tissue injury by 60 percent. The [...]

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These days, there’s no stopping the progress of adult stem cell research. Australia’s News.com is reporting that scientists have found a way to coat common contact lenses with adult eye stem cells so that corneas can be regenerated. Amazing! Notes University of New South Wales medical researcher Dr. Nick Di Girolamo: “The stem cells were [...]

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David Prentice at the Family Research Council is finding more and more publications discussing iPSCs (induced pluripotent stem cells; these are reprogramed adult cells), versus ESCs (embryonic stem cells, or cells taken from human embryos, typically blastocysts, in which the tiny human is destroyed). More news, and good news, indeed. Notes Prentice, iPS cells fulfill [...]

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Every now and then one comes across an article like this one from USA Today, in which the embryonic stem cell – tumor connection is brought to light: ‘The link between stem and tumor cells in science is a very old one,’ says Paul Knoepfler of the University of California Davis School of Medicine in [...]

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The Edmond Sun reports that Oklahoma lawmakers passed 83-0 a ban on the creation of human embryos through cloning for the purpose of harvesting their stem cells. The bill will now go to the Oklahoma Senate.

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Dr. James Wilson, the John Herr Musser Professor of Research Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert on gene transfer, has offered some sobering thoughts on the promises of ESCR (embryonic stem cell research). From Biopolitical Times: It would be unfortunate if the field of hESC [human embryonic stem cell] research missed this [...]

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Scientists have known for some time that embryonic stem cells injected into laboratory animals (and in some rogue experiments, humans) have the tendency to develop into teratomas (tumors comprised of different types of tissue). Of course, this dampens the spirits of all but the most fervent of researchers, who are convinced that ESCR (embryonic stem [...]

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