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POPSEngineered Rabbit Penises Raise Human Hopes Clipped for the headline. No doubt this will be all over the web. How is the Catholic Church on this sort of tamponing, I mean tampering, with nature. Probably for it. Help the population grow beyond the planet's ability to cope.
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POPSThe value of cord blood—even greater than once imagined! Families who have banked your child’s cord blood (or are considering it) take note -you may have access to “ready-to-use” stem cell therapies that are greater than we imagined. This includes treatments that may help restore, repair and regenerate various tissues and organs that may have been damaged through injury or illness.
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POPSBeating Heart Tissue from Stem Cells In a study in the journal Science, researchers explain how they used mouse embryonic stem cells and microchip technology to create heart muscle tissue that actually beats.
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POPSRegenerative Medicine - Astounding! Watch the video at the source, I couldn't clip it. It blows one's mind that they can do some of these things. Could be incredibly useful for our guys that got hurt in the war.
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POPSDon't say stem cell therapy, say Regenerative medicine. "Where is this all heading? Regenerating the eyes of the elderly, the spinal cords of the paralysed and the insulin-producing cells of the diabetic is undoubtedly wonderful medicine. But you can't help wondering whether there is a point at which regeneration would stop. Will we be able one day - in centuries to come - be able to replace any ageing tissue? At the very least, regenerative medicine offers the prospect of a far longer life. Immortality - should we want it - may take a little longer."
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POPS10 Amazing clips from the life sciences 1. "Building Body Parts from Scratch Last week, regenerative medicine researchers announced that they have grown a new windpipe for a woman who was crippled by tuberculosis. Years ago, other scientists were able to make bladders, from scratch, and implant them in children with malformed urinary tracts. This video shows some amazing footage from two tissue engineering labs'.
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POPSNew way to make stem cells is safe Hochedlinger's team used a much more harmless virus, called an adenovirus, to carry into the cells the four transformative genes, called Oct4, Sox2, Klf4 and c-Myc. They used mouse skin cells and also liver cells from fetal mice and got both types to look and act like iPS cells As the cells divide, they dilute the virus until it disappears, he said. But the genetic changes remain. To test the cells they made chimeras --- a blend of two separate animals. They injected their newly made cells into mouse embryos and when the pups were born, they carried visible evidence that the cells had indeed transformed them And so far, these chimeric mice have not developed any tumors If it works, some day doctors may be able to make tailor-made transplants to treat diseases in people by removing a few cells, transforming them in the lab and transplanting the new tissue or organs back in
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POPSResearchers turn one form of adult mouse cell directly into another Joan Brugge, Chair of the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School, said the new study "provides exciting new insights into yet another aspect of cell plasticity that was not appreciated previously and that offers great potential therapeutically. Direct reprogramming represents a more straight-forward strategy to treat diseases involving loss of function of specific cell populations than approaches requiring an intermediate embryonic stem cell," she said.
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POPSStem cells are needed The conflict centers on an effort to create stem cells from embryos that are exact clones of adults. The hope is to one day use the cells to generate transplant tissues or even whole body parts to treat incurable diseases. Last month, the California agency doled out $23 million in research grants but turned down all applications seeking funding for the technique, known as therapeutic cloning." I find it very disturbing; why does the US try to hold off the future that may take humanity one step forward.
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POPSThe man who grew a finger "I put my finger in," Mr Spievak says, pointing towards the propeller of a model aeroplane, "and that's when I sliced my finger off."
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POPSIt's not immoral to want to be immortal the prospect of immortality raises complex ethical social and economical issues. This is exactly why we need immortality! So we will have unlimited time to resolve these very issues. If there is one thing humanity won't give up is the dream of immortality. It is as ancient as our race.
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POPSIraq war spurs effort to regrow lost limbs The marine's stem cells could be used to grow more cells that are then painted on a scaffold in the shape of his ears and nose, says Schoomaker. After an incubation period of weeks, the biodegradable scaffold would be implanted on the skin and absorbed, ultimately becoming fully functional, he says. As well as developing techniques to salvage and reconstruct damaged hands, fingers, ears and noses the new research effort will develop techniques to reconstruct damaged skulls. Teams of scientists led by Wake Forest University in North Carolina and the University of Pittsburgh as well as Rutgers University in New Jersey and the Cleveland Clinic be part of the newly funded institute
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POPSSeaweed Transformed Into Stem Cell Technology Engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have transformed a polymer found in common brown seaweed into a device that can support the growth and release of stem cells at the sight of a bodily injury or at the source of a disease. Kane and his collaborators, which include the author of the paper and former Rensselaer graduate student Randolph Ashton, created the device from a material known as alginate.Alginate is a complex carbohydrate found naturally in brown seaweed. When mixed with calcium, alginate gels into a rigid, three-dimensional mesh.
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POPSNewt protein makes legs grow back They've found the protein that causes immature cells, similar to stem cells, to multiply, and grow to reform the missing limbs in newts. It is hoped understanding of this process may lead to it's application as a regrowth factor in mammals.
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