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...serious snag last week with the revelation that virtually all stem cells are cultivated using embryonic mouse tissue. The mouse cells provide the human ones with nutrients and growth factors crucial to their survival and proliferation. The problem: under FDA rules, mouse-fed stem cells given to treat human patients would be considered a "xenotransplant," or tissue from another species. Although hundreds of patients have received liver and fetal cells from pigs without any sign of foreign infection, the agency could halt a stem-cell procedure if it felt the human patient was at risk of getting an animal virus...
...good" or "excellent," 68 percent of those surveyed believe workers? rights need "much more" or "somewhat more" protection. Asked to rate their own work experiences, employees handed out more bad news for company brass: Two-thirds of workers have "just some" or "not much" trust that employers will treat them fairly. And 47 percent of African-American workers say they?ve been subjected to racial discrimination...
When we grant our children their every whim, we fail to equip them to handle the hardships, disappointments and struggles of adult life. And to treat youngsters as full-fledged adults from the age of two is to rob them of a true childhood experience, which is essential in producing a well-adjusted adult. ROBERT KOLINSKI Hamtramck, Mich...
...nearly everyone agrees on one thing: stem cells, the unspecialized cells the body uses as raw material for tissues and organs, have the potential to treat an astonishing range of ills, including Parkinson's disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's and spinal-cord injuries. After Bush's decision, the question becomes whether they'll ever get a fair chance...
...example, Langer and neurosurgeon Henry Brem devised the first dime-size chemotherapy wafers to treat brain cancer. These wafers release powerful cancer-fighting drugs slowly in the site where a tumor has been removed in order to kill any cancer cells the surgeon has missed. By confining the drugs to the site of the tumor, the effects on other organs are minimized--always a major consideration in chemotherapy. The same concept has since been applied to prostate, spinal and ovarian cancers...