Word: stemness
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...second advance in about a year that suggests that someday doctors might be able to use a patient's own cells to treat disease or injury without turning to stem cells taken from embryos...
Nick Forster had the idea for Etown in 1990, when he returned to the U.S. after touring in Eastern Europe. The environmental devastation he saw there - the legacy of communist misrule - inspired him to do something to stem the tide of climate change. He realized - given his fundamental belief in the power of live music to bring people together - that a radio show was the answer. On Earth Day 1991 Etown broadcast its first show. "We wanted to build a community through music," he says. "The music was always the hook to bring people...
...stem the trend, activists on the front lines have been attempting to promote safe sex - even in countries where it is not allowed - rather than prevent sex altogether. In the African nation of Burundi, homosexuality is not recognized. "My government said gays and homosexuals don't exist - they are only found in Europe or America," says Burundian Georges Kanuma, 36, an openly gay activist. Frustrated with the lack of health services for gay patients, who are routinely shunned by Burundian physicians, Kanuma founded a nonprofit AIDS organization, Association National de Soutien Aux Seropositif et Aux Malades du SIDA (ANSS), eight...
...cells are not subject to federal restrictions on embryonic stem cells as they are from skin cells or blood cells instead of embryos, a fact that allows iPS cells to sidestep much of the ethical debate surrounding research on embryonic stem cells. Hochedlinger said though that it would be a mistake to "give up on embryonic stem cells" before scientists find a way to make iPS cells without using potentially harmful genetic manipulation...
...foreseeable future, human embryonic stem cells will remain the gold standard," said Daley, whose research is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health, HSCI, and other private sources. "Even with iPS cells, we will want to study the biology of embryonic stem cell derivation, which occurs from embryos and won't be replicated by the iPS strategy...