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iPS cells produced directly from patient
Dr. David Prentice from the Family Research Council writes about the recent advance with turning skin cells from patients with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) into a neuron similar to the type the disease attacks. This shows for the first time iPS cells can produce specialized cells from a patient with a disease. “The results of this study should put another nail in cloning's coffin,” Dr. Prentice said.
Condit: Continue ban on embryo-destructive research
In a Lansing State-Journal editorial, Dr. Donald Condit explains Michigan's law which prohibits killing human embryos and shares some of the reasons why the Michigan State Medical Society voted to take a neutral position on the embryonic stem cell research issue.
Michigan man celebrates 5th year anniversary of saving a life with his stem cells
The Saginaw News reports on the 5th anniversary of a Saginaw man named Don Pussehl donating his stem cells to help successfully treat a man from Colorado who was suffering from leukemia. Five years after receiving the transplanted of Pussehl's stem cells, Steve Wicker feels "perfect." April 2008 marked the five years from the procedure which according to doctors means Wicker is medically cured of leukemia.
DANGER! Embryonic stem cell research with NO restrictions ahead
Proponents of embryonic stem cell research in Michigan are constantly claiming they want
Michigan researchers
to be on the "cutting edge" of embryonic stem cell experiments. The recent
announcement out of Britain that scientists there have been able to create
cloned embryos by mixing human DNA with the eggs of cows in an attempt
to get embryonic stem cells demonstrates where that cutting edge is.
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