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...Cloning has generated controversy outside of ethics questions as well - or at least, outside of these particular ethics questions. In 2004, South Korean researcher Hwang Woo Suk shot to fame after claims that his team had successfully extracted potentially disease-curing stem cells from a cloned human embryo. However, mere months later, Hwang's reputation dissolved after a Seoul National University panel concluded that much of his research was "intentionally fabricated." Hwang was accused of doctoring pictures of his supposed patient-specific stem-cell lines and was forced to resign. Though the controversy stunned South Korea, the nation resumed...
...Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson thinks he got hammered on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning for not doing enough to stem the tide of foreclosures, he's lucky he wasn't at the public library in Miami Gardens, Fla., Tuesday night. More than 200 homeowners facing foreclosure were hooking up with their lenders to hash out mortgage modifications, and they had some choice words for what they view as Washington's lack of help. "Paulson and the rest of them don't give a damn about what's happening to us," said Angela Butler, 49, a school custodian who, after going...
...Barcelona Stem Cell-ebration European physicians have announced the success of a breakthrough procedure in which a woman's windpipe was rebuilt using her own stem cells. The operation, performed on 30-year-old Claudia Castillo this past June, seeded a stripped-down segment of a donor's trachea with stem cells from Castillo's bone marrow, ensuring a perfect tissue match and reducing the likelihood of transplant rejection. The procedure has been championed as a milestone that could pave the way for radical improvements in organ transplants and the treatment of serious diseases...
...Stem cell research usually makes news when scientists use it to grow something. Take, for example, this week’s story about the successful transplantation of a windpipe grown from stem cells. But while transplantation is “a very exciting application of stem cells,” it is not a solution for many diseases, as stem cell and regenerative biology professor Kevin Eggan said in a talk last night, titled “Using Stem Cells and Reprogramming to Model Neural Degeneration.” For example, he said it is difficult to imagine growing...
...pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is planning to create a regenerative medicine unit specializing in stem cell research in Cambridge, according to a company press release. The unit will further Cambridge’s ongoing effort to maintain its status as a world-class hub of scientific research while stimulating the local economy and offering economic opportunities during the current financial crisis, proponents say. “It seems like a natural progression that will add to the breadth and scope of biotech here in Cambridge,” Mayor E. Denise Simmons said of the project. Simmons said the labs will...