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Fulga's treatment repairs damaged or inactive heart tissue using adult stem cells harvested from the patient's blood and processed outside the body by mimicking the body's environment. Unlike other stem-cell therapies, which make use of bone marrow or--more controversially in the U.S.--the blood of human embryos, Fulga believes the procedure patented by TheraVitae is simpler, safer and less invasive. "The patient is effectively treating himself with his own blood, so there is very little danger of rejection," says Fulga, an ophthalmologist. "It's the safest kind of stem cell...
Rebuke for stem-cell research New Jersey Governor John Corzine spent $150,000 of his own money on a measure to create state-funded stem-cell research. But taxpayers balked at the $450 million price tag; pro-lifers fought it on moral grounds. It became the first statewide ballot initiative rejected by New Jersey voters in 17 years...
...would prefer that research were halted in time for policy makers to assess the synbio landscape, the truth is that if research in this field were slowed in the U.S., international laboratories would have an instant scientific advantage. This would be similar in the way that strict domestic stem cell research policies have allowed for oversea successes. But unlike with stem cell research, error in efficient oversight of synbio research in any one country could cause instant global repercussions—bacteria, of course, don’t observe borders. If anything, U.S. lawmakers should want domestic companies...
Glendon served on President Bush’s Council on Bioethics—a collection of doctors, legal and ethical scholars, and scientists created in 2001 that examines the ethics of human cloning, stem cell research, and other politically-charged medical issues. Glendon was rumored to be a potential Supreme Court nominee after Sandra Day O’Connor announced her retirement...
...Kelley urged School Committee members to send invitations for school productions to the parents of children in the city’s primary schools. This sort of initiative, he said, could help the city stem its enrollment decline by letting parents and students see what awaited them in high school...