October 25, 2004

• I started to watch the presentations, and was entranced, then got diverted by life stuff. What I did get to see was great, and I'll be back tomorrow to watch the rest. Thanks, Gyan!
• Stem cells home in on brain cancer: Arming embryonic stem cells with anti-cancer agent could help create new therapies.
• Approved Stem Cells' Potential Questioned
• For everybody who isn't committed to banning stem-cell research, the National Academy of Sciences guidelines are good news.
• Great link. Thanks!
• New technique may enable scientists to create stem cells from existing, adult cells.
• Kneel before Nanog!
• What pro-lifers are missing in the stem-cell debate.
• Democrats force stem cell research to Senate agenda
• Though polls show 70 percent of the public joins a boatload of scientists, Nobel laureates and legislators who support a bill expanding federal aid for embryonic stem-cell research, it's likely not enough to override Bush's veto. Expect Nancy Reagan on the scene.
• Senate Says Yes to Stem Cells
• Bush to stem cell community: Drop dead
• Stem Cells, Life, and The President's First Veto
• War and Embryos: Bush's faulty logic about stem-cell research.
• Banking on Indian Umbilical Cords
• The 'untouchables' of US science: When George Bush banned funding he effectively put researchers into quarantine
• Bill on Embryonic Stem-Cell Research Clears the House
• As Bush Celebrates ‘Sanctity Of Human Life Day,’ NIH Official Says Stem Cell Policy Is Blocking Cures
• NIH Chief: Stem Cell Ban Hobbles Science
• Heart valve grown from stem cells: British scientists have grown part of a human heart from stem cells for the first time.
• Expanded Stem Cell Research in Danger
• Bad Medicine, Again: Bush Stem Cell Veto All Wrong
• This is a great day in the war against fresh baby smoothies. Damn hippies.
• Embryonic Stem Cells and Clear Moral Boundaries
• Majority of IVF Users Willing to Donate Excess Embryos for Stem Cell Research So there are actually 400,000 extra frozen embryos in the US, not 40,000 as the link above this one claimed.
• However, using them is IMMORAL and you will all go to HELL. Who freezes these things anyway?
• Former Surgeon General Was Muzzled, Censored By Bush Administration
• The Company Who Cried Clinical Trial
• NIH Delays Grant Comparing Amniotic, Embryonic, and Placental Stem Cells
• Mitt Romney: Against Stem Cell Research, For Stem Cell Profits
• Male Testicles Are Potential Fountain of Stem Cell Youth
• There's gold in them thar dangly bits!
• I always suspected that bukkake must have healing properties.
• An Eye For An Eye: Using Stem Cells To Treat Damaged Eyes And A Rare Skin Disorder
• Bush’s ‘Stem Cell Victory’
• Stem Cells—This Time without the Cancer: One week after a breakthrough finding, scientists report they can reprogram human skin cells to behave like embryonic stem cells without a growth factor known to cause cancer
• Standing in the Way of Stem Cell Research
• A Stem Cell Breakthrough — No Thanks to Mr. Bush
• Scientists Cure Mice Of Sickle Cell Using Stem Cell Technique
• What a marroooon the Shrub is. Is there anything that guy won't take credit for? I expect to see a PR photo of him in a white lab coat standing on the deck next to a centrifuge soon.
• Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ Convinced Bush To Ban Embryonic Stem Cell Research
• Stem Cell Research Is Growing Again
• *drum beat - cymbal*
• Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ Convinced Bush To Ban Embryonic Stem Cell Research Who's the idiot that read and explained THAT to him?! Oh, Lefkowitz? Must have moved his lips extra slow.
• This theory has great explanatory power
• Performance in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Correlates With National Policies
• Wealth Of Genomic Hotspots Discovered In Embryonic Stem Cells
• Consent issues restrict stem-cell use
• Scientists make homemade human blood from stem cells. IT'S BLOOD, BITCHES!!!
• Is this a viral for that new HBO vampire show?
• "It's blood, bitches," is going to be my new catchphrase to announce that dinner is ready.
• McCain Makes Sharp Right Turn on Stem Cells
• Can Stem Cells Block Stroke Damage? Yes, but in a Surprising Way: Instead of generating new cells as expected, they cause adult cells to protect vulnerable nerve tissue from inflammation
• Testicle Stem Cells Become Bone, Muscle in German Experiments
• Japanese researchers make brain tissues from stem cells
• So when can I get some brains?
• Not anytime soon, I'm afraid. But don't worry, we like you the way you are.
• Stem Cell Researchers Celebrate Obama Victory, With Caveats
• Spanish woman receives new trachea grown in lab
• Scientists eager for stem cell policy change
• Democrats Debate Methods to End Stem Cell Ban
• Body repair 'could be ramped up'
• Green light for US stem cell work
• Yeah! More choice!!
• Stem-cell transplants may control and even reverse multiple sclerosis symptoms if done early enough, a small study has suggested.
• Do parents of embryonic stem cell lines need ethical protection?
• Embryonic Stem Cell Therapy Causes Cancer in Teenage Boy
• I'll bet the fundies are chortling now.
• Obama's stem-cell research order means the Republican Dark Ages are finally over
• How The Religious Right Sees Stem Cell Research
• Embryonic Stem-Cell Research Poses No Moral Dilemmas
• >>The seed is not the plant. A seed is dormant; an embryo is not. An embryo is no less human than I am, genetically speaking.
• Oh, puleeeeze!
• Oh well, since you put it that way.
• Will the FDA Kill Adult Stem Cell Medicine? Should adult stem cells be a prescription drug controlled by the FDA or Standard Practice of Medicine?
• Legal challenge between Palo Alto company, Orange County hospital halts stem cell research
• Body’s Own Stem Cells Can Lead to Tooth Regeneration
• That's pretty amazing (and it's about time!) I only wish they had that now. I have a tooth that was fractured, was crowned, then a root canal was done, then a cadaver cell regeneration was tried, and after 15 years of screwing with it, the tooth was finally pulled :( Next is the dreaded bridge, because with three out of three losses, I'm not doing an implant. I want my stem cell graft!
• That tooth was worked over about as much as my eyeball! *Need stem cells*
• Growing joint with stem cells possible, study says
• OK, I"m looking at a knee replacement this winter, and I'd much rather grow a new joint. Get with it, medical people! I've had way more than my fair share of major surgeries, and I've never been afraid or worried going into any of them, but this is giving me the heebie jeebies. They saw the knee joint out and then hammer in the new artifical joint. In other words, they cut the leg off. They CUT the leg OFF. They wanna cut my freakin' leg off!! Everyone I've talked to says their only regret was in not having it done sooner, but still, they... wanna... cut.... *shudders*
• Oh. I had thought you did that last year already!
• Chickened out on the knee, but had a steel plate put in my poor shattered big toe where the bones had healed all wonky. Horses are big. And heavy. And sometimes rude.
• Sometimes? I never met a polite horse. When is the surgery likely to be, BlueHorse? Maybe a monkey care package is in order.
• Obama stem cell regulations temporarily blocked
• Bioethicist Arthur Caplan on Democracy Now
• The Scientist Who Helped Stall Stem Cell Research
• Stem cells, politics and the law
• Australian researchers are alarmed by this week's news that a US judge has blocked federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Not only will the preliminary injunction stifle US research, it could have repercussions in Australia, claim stem cell scientists, many of whom have US federal funding and collaborations.
• Wowserism , in it's American form, still bedevils the Aussies.
• Scientists to Congress: Pass the stem cell law ... while you still can
• Stem Cells and Synthetic Scaffolds Save Man from Tracheal Cancer
• Doctors question wisdom, safety of experimental stem cell treatment Perry had for a bad back
• Endangered species set for stem cell rescue: In a novel marriage of conservation and modern biology, scientists have created stem cells from two endangered species, which could help ensure their survival.
• Med Student Rescues Body Part From Airport Security
• Too bad it wasn't some NSA official needing that trachea... Never mind. It would have been flown in a personal jet, no security bullshit and common carrier for the important folks.
• Scientists Can Now Grow Functioning Liver From Stem Cells
• Stem cells responsible for higher brain function found
• Strangely, higher brain functions are detrimental to martial dominance.
• Hmmm, I first read that as marital dominance. Wonder if there's a difference? If mugged, I will attempt to to engage my attackers higher brain functions by asking, "How about them Steelers?" That will engage the brain as well as promote bonding. Unless the attacker prefers the Cowboys, in which case I'm doomed.
• Stem cells bring back feeling for paralysed patients
• Nobel awarded for stem cell reprogramming: Pair showed that adult cells can be reprogrammed to an embryonic state.
• In the Flesh: The Embedded Dangers of Untested Stem Cell Cosmetics
• US Supreme Court Slaps Down Challenge to Embryonic Stem Cell Research
• Totally blind mice get sight back.
• A Human Stem Cell Has Been Cloned For the First Time
• Stem cell researchers are heralding a "major scientific discovery", with the potential to start a new age of personalised medicine. Scientists in Japan showed stem cells can now be made quickly just by dipping blood cells into acid.
• Just too frickin' weird. And wonderful. Science. It's RAD!
• Retracted: Study That Found Acid Converts Blood Cells Into Stem Cells Oops.
• Oh crap. Well, it was a nice idea at the time. Science! Duplication and peer review. That's where it's at.
• Stem Cell Researchers Just Figured Out How to Create New Embryos
• NIH stem-cell programme closesDirector resigns as just one clinical-trial award is made.