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Drugs currently being developed to treat Alzheimer??s may also put a common type of childhood leukemia—T-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia—into remission, said Jon C. Aster, an associate professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and the leader of the study...
Drug companies are now developing gamma secretase inhibitors in an effort to help Alzheimer??s patients...
Several Harvard scientists were particularly critical of Bush’s conservative stance on stem cell research, a technique which proponents say has the potential to generate new organs and cure diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer?...
Stem-cell research is likewise directed toward the noblest of ends: curing debilitative diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer??s and diabetes. The instruments of this research are not adult men; they are microscopic human embryos in the “blastocyst” stage of development. The embryos are dissected for their stem cells—cells that can potentially form any kind of tissue in the body. In the process, the embryos are killed...
...view. We find it hard to believe that a dozen undifferentiated cells created in a petri dish—cells that will never develop into a human being—should be protected with such zeal. Especially when they hold promising potential to repair damaged blood vessels or cure Alzheimer??s disease...