Scientists from the University of Colorado School of Medicine have reported that fetal brain disorders may be able to be corrected using stem cells. The researchers say that when human neural stem cells were injected into the damaged brain of monkeys during gestation, some of the cells became 'an integral...
A sub-committee of the Judiciary committee of the US House of Representatives approved a total ban on all forms of human cloning last week. The proposed legislation would ban cloning for both reproduction and research purposes. It proposes prison sentences of up to ten years and fines beginning at $1...
New treatments for paralysis could follow a discovery made by scientists at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US, that human embryonic stem cells 'cured' paralysis in mice and rats. The stem cells were taken from aborted human fetuses. Mice and rats were infected with a virus which caused damage...
Collaborative research between scientists from the UK Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the Imperial College School of Medicine, London, has shown for the first time that bone marrow cells are able to turn into kidney cells. The researchers believe that this discovery will help pave the way to treating kidney...
Researchers in Austria have identified a gene that may contribute to the cause of recurrent unexplained miscarriages. Women who have a certain gene variation have been found to have a 60 per cent increased risk of recurrent miscarriages. The researchers, led by Professor Clemens Tempfer from the University of Vienna...
At a meeting in Italy last week, Pope John Paul II urged US President George W Bush to ban the use of human embryonic stem cells in medical research. Calling for the ban, the Pope warned that the US government should not support something that 'devalues and violates human life...
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Time to make a choice
by Professor Kirsty Horsey
The comments made by the Pope to President Bush don't come as a surprise. There are some people who will never support stem cell research when the stem cells are derived from embryos. But to compare stem cell research, which is done with the aim of developing treatments for diseases...