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Patrick unveiled a $1 billion proposal on July 20 that would help to bolster life sciences research—especially in regards to stem cells??and assert Massachusetts’ place as the epicenter of the scientific innovation...
...this new model, researchers within HSCI have been successful. Albert Edge, an associate professor of otology and laryngology at the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, says that his lab has been able to show in animal models that the auditory nerve can be replaced with embryonic stem cells??provided by HSCI—in order to correct deafness and hearing loss...
...looked at in humans. We found that there are a large number of these NKT cells in the lungs of patients with severe asthma.”Umetsu and Akbari credit new technologies—such as monoclonal antibodies that can identify specific types of cells??for enabling their discovery.“The tools were not really available until a couple of years ago,” Akbari says.Umetsu says that a better understanding of the cause of asthma might lead to an improvement on the current steroid-based treatments.“The current treatments...
Harvard’s move towards researching therapeutic applications will begin with hematopoietic stem cells??adult stem cells that give rise to blood cells. Unlike human embryonic stem cells, which are less well understood and have been the subject of ongoing ethical and legal debates, adult stem cells have already proven to be an effective treatment option...
...this research. Instead, Romney has asked the legislature to ban the cloning of nuclear material, that is, the insertion of foreign DNA into a host egg. Scientists believe that mastering this technique is crucial for any stem cell therapy to eventually be realized, since any tissues grown from stem cells??the ultimate goal of stem cell research—need to be custom-grown to match the DNA of the patient. Preventing nuclear cloning destroys any theoretical therapeutic benefit that embryonic stem cell research might ever generate...