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Resistance to Scientific Explanations By Children and Adults

...ming, vaccination, genetically modified organisms, stem cell research, and cloning, said Paul Bloom, psychology professor and lead author of the review article. Also, science is not special here. The same process holds for certain religious, moral and political beliefs. Currently, said co-author and gra...

Magnets to the rescue of Alzheimers patients

...They found large increases in the proliferation of stem cells - immature cells that go on to develop into nerves and other kinds of tissue - in a part of the brain called the dentate gyrus hippocampus. These cells divide throughout life and are believed to play a crucial role in memory and mood regulat...

$5M Gift Will Attack Lou Gehrig's Disease

...ells, and a potential treatment based on injecting stem cells into the spinal cord. The latter approach, which will require the use of human embryonic stem cells, will be tested at UC San Diego where Dr. Marsala has received additional funding from the Cal...

Researchers Make Insulin from Human Umbilical Cord Bloods Adult Stem Cells

Researchers have successfully engineered adult stem cells from human umbilical cord blood to make ins.... As part of the study, researchers tested adult stem cells in the laboratory to ensure that they were predisposed to divide. Then they used a previously ...

International Day Of Action For Women's Health - 2007

...very year. The origins of this world health day stem from a 1987 meeting of the Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR), in Costa Rica, where the Latin American and Caribbean Women's Health Network proposed the creation of a global day of action for women's health. Since then, 28 May...

Detecting Cold, Feeling Pain: Study Reveals Why Menthol Fresh

...moving through nerves in the spinal cord and brain stem up to the brain, which prompts a response, or feeling. Co-author of the current study Allan Basbaum, PhD, also of UCSF, is a pioneer of research into the mechanism of chronic pain within the central nervous system. The Julius teams complementary wo...

More Than 270 Medicines in Testing for Heart Disease and Stroke

...d new scientific approaches. For example: Human stem cells that may restore cardiac function by forming new heart muscle. A new anticoagulant that regulates clot formation to prevent stroke in atrial fibrillation. A vaccine that may be able to promote 'good' cholesterol by preventing the transfer o...

Significant Scientific Breakthrough in Stem Cell Banking

...lly validated method to collect adult mesenchymal stem cells ("MSCs") from the lining of umbilical cord t...on of very high quantities of valuable mesenchymal stem cells without invasive surgery. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are of great therapeutic potential d...

Human Stem Cell Therapy Restores Motor Function to Paralyzed Rats

...nction in paralyzed rats by grafting human spinal stem cells (hSSCs) in them. "We demonstrated that whe... the spines neural cells, by grafting human neural stem cells directly into the spinal cord we can achieve a progressive recovery of motor function," said l...

Genetic Code That Helps Kill Colon Cancer Cells Identified

...r zero miR-34a. "With no p53 gene or miR-34a to stem tumor development, there's no brake in pancreatic cells and uncontrolled growth leads to cancer," says Dr. Anirban Maitra, Associate Professor of Pathology, Oncology and Genetic Medicine. The researchers are now looking for missing miR-34a in other...

Cigarette Smoke Alters DNA in Sperm, Genetic Damage Could Pass to Offspring

...ply of new sperm from self-renewing spermatogonial stem cells. Yauk, along with colleagues at Health Canad...nd McMaster University, studied the spermatogonial stem cells of mature mice that had been exposed to cigarette smoke for either six or 12 weeks to look for...

New Platform for Regulating Expression of Therapeutic Genes Unveiled

...is particularly relevant for the emerging field of stem cell gene therapy, in which genes are delivered in...ncoding a fluorescent protein into human embryonic stem cells. Their gene contained target sites for a microRNA specific of neuronal cells. While undifferen...

Velcade(R) Plus Doxil(R) Improves Previously Treated Multiple Myeloma Patients

...t affects production of red cells, white cells and stem cells. It affects an estimated 750,000 people worldwide, and in industrialized countries it is being diagnosed in growing numbers and in increasingly younger people....

Stem Cell Therapy Could Provide Cure for AMD in Five Years

...apy, which uses cells derived from human embryonic stem cells to replace the faulty retinal cells that cau...of a cell replacement therapy from human embryonic stem cells, which are effective in replacing dysfunctional RPE and photoreceptors found in AMD, leading t...

Australian Catholics Rebel Over Stem Cell Vote Warning

...vitro fertilisation treatment to be used to create stem cells for research into fighting debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and cystic fibrosis. "Cloning is not quite the same as abortion and the legislation for such a thing as cloning is different from actually performing cloning," ...

Loss of Stem Cells Correlates With Premature Aging

... development leads to premature aging and loss of stem cell reservoirs in adult mice. This gene, ATR, is ...f, most tissues have a reservoir of specific adult stem cells. These stem cells dont divide as frequently as other cell types since they need to maintain th...

Australian State Approves Therapeutic Cloning

...rturn a ban on the use of cloned human embryos for stem cell research despite strong opposition from the C...llow researchers to clone human embryos to extract stem cells in the hope of one day finding cures for debilitating diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson'...

Export of Herbal Products to Reach Rs.120 Billion by 2012: Study

...ecause of the use of parts like roots, bark, wood, stem and the whole plant in case of herbs. This poses a definite threat to the genetic stocks and to the diversity of medicinal plants if biodiversity is not sustainably used." The chamber, besides suggesting the establishment of EPZs, has also suggest...

Dartmouth Professor Makes Case for Ethically Universal Stem Cell Lines

Human embryonic stem cells (hESC), those very young cells that are a bi...t must be overcome in making them useful in future stem cell research. Even though none of these options is free from scientific challenges or ethical and p...

Stem Cell Transplants Ease Parkinson's Symptoms in Monkeys

...kinson's disease in monkeys with the help of human stem cell transplants . During the course of study, p...ional Academy of Sciences, the scientists isolated stem cells from the brains of aborted foetuses, and grew them into large numbers in the laboratory. Th...

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