STEM CELLS — BOTH KINDS — HELP DISEASED MICE
A US study has found that both embryonic and adult stem cells protect mice against a neurogenerative disease. This is the first time, it was claimed, that rodents genetically disposed to a disease lived longer and healthier lives after injections of human stem cells. The researchers, at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in La Jolla, California, found that the human cells had developed into signalling nerve cells. When the stem cells were used in conjunction with drugs, the mice lived even longer.
Scientists were intrigued by the fact that both types of cells worked well. (The adult stem cells came from the brains of aborted human foetuses.) However, lead researcher Evan Snyder noted that embryonic stem cells were easier to use, even if they were ethically more controversial. “They just grow quicker and in greater quantities,” he said.
- How long can you put off seeing the doctor because of lockdowns? - December 3, 2021
- House of Lords debates assisted suicide—again - October 28, 2021
- Spanish government tries to restrict conscientious objection - October 28, 2021
More Stories
China is desperate to raise its birthrate
China’s fertility rate has sunk to 1.18 children per woman and its population has begun to decline. Deaths outnumbered births...
American man says that he is both father and mother for his kids
This must be one of the most bizarre custody cases ever decided by an American court. The Superior Court of...
Are we already living in a transhumanist reality?
Last year an Oxford expert in transhumanism published “Future Superhuman: Our transhuman lives in a make-or-break century”. Elise Bohan, an...
95% of Irish women who know that their unborn child is Down syndrome have abortions
Abortion was only legalized in Ireland in 2018. One of the consequences is that the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, a...
Massachusetts politicians propose prisoners as organ donors
Massachusetts is a state where conservatism goes to die, so it was astonishing to read a bill in its legislature...
Peru’s forced sterilization tragedy drags on in the courts
For at least 25 years, indigenous Peruvian women have been fighting for justice after they were forcibly sterilized by doctors...