stem cells

Does anybody know whether this could be an effective treatment, or is it just more quackery? This showed up in my Twitter feed today. The appeal for funds, the Panama clinic, the anecdotal testimonials, the lack of references to actual studies - all these raised red flags for me. I'd hate to...

This looks fairly legitimate to me. If true, this could be a massive breakthrough in the treatment of brain damage. http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/15870/20130524/boys-stem-cells-successfully-treat-cerebral-palsy.htm

I heard an interview with Shoukhrat Mitalipov, who claims to have made a major breakthrough in stem cell research, and thought this would make an interesting thread. The podcast is Global News (Wed 5/15/13). This NPR article pretty much captures the thrust of what he spoke about in the...

It's science baby! http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2960633-3/fulltext Imagine rendering some transplants obsolete!

Dutch scientists are "growing" meat from stem-calls. linky Obviously there's a very long way to go to make this commercially viable (if ever) but without the concern of the humanitarian aspects of raising/slaughtering animals and the fact that this meat never 'had eyes', feelings and what-not...

In every day in every way the Science Fiction of my youth becomes less fictional. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2008347/Test-tube-burger-coming-soon-Lab-grown-meat-needed-feed-world.html I particularly like: Paging Harry Harrison. Harry Harrison, please pick up the green phone. PS...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/08/canadian_skin_to_blood/ Here's PROGRESS! :wave1

Today the British General Medical Council struck off Robert Trossel, a doctor who had treated multiple sclerosis patients with injections of stem cells http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11425435. The doctor had exaggerated the benefits of the treatment, which were 'based on "anecdotal and...

Hello, Greetings!! As I am coming to your side, I want to understand more & more about stem cells relations to immune defence & uncompromised healing(without scar etc.). Although, I read basic informations about stem cells on internet(wikipedia etc.), still I want to learn more about stem...

I am quite suspicious of that and pretty much assume all the many overseas clinic offering such stem cells therapy are but scams... Nonetheless, this one is established in the U.S and seem a bit more legit. I am not being excited so far, but definitively intrigued...

This just sounds too good to be true. http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1817572,00.html I guess it is hard to separate it from the company it keeps. <SNIP> Vet-Stem's therapy is just the newest frontier in the booming field of alternative veterinary medicine — which includes...

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19325964.600&feedId=online-news_rss20 New Scientist has an online article stating researchers at University of Minnesota have used the same data , relabelled, to support different findings in different publications. Investigations in 2006 found the...

Non-Embryonic Stem Cells An Indian biotech firm, TriStem, is featured in a New Scientist story this week for its discovery of a technique making embryos unnecessary to make stem cells or for stem cell therapy. All they need is the patient’s own blood, which they treat with an antibody...