Human in the womb – picture
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Dolphin in the womb - picture
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Cat in the womb – picture
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Lemon Shark in the womb – picture
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Kangaroo in the womb – picture
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Polar Bear twins in the womb – picture
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Horse in the womb – picture
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Bats in the womb – picture
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Penguin in the womb (egg) - picture
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Cheetah in the womb – picture
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Chihuahua in the womb – picture
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Snake in the womb (egg) – picture
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Elephant in the womb – picture
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Opossum in the womb – picture
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Science, Embryonic Autonomy, and the Question of When Life Begins
by Ana Maria Dumitru - January 2017
Excerpt: If we define organismal autonomy to mean freedom from external control, it turns out that we can identify precisely when an embryo satisfies the definition of autonomy: from the very beginning. A recent study published by Marta N. Shahbazi and colleagues from the UK demonstrates that this newly formed cell knows what to do post-conception regardless of whether or not it receives signals from a host uterus.
http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/01/17222/
Scientists Cure Blindness with Adult Stem Cells - Wesley J. Smith - March 10, 2016
Excerpt: Cataracts can be cured by using a patient's own stem cells to regrow a "living lens" in their eye, restoring sight in just three months, scientists have shown. In research described as "remarkable," surgeons reversed blindness in 12 infants born with congenital cataracts by removing the damaged lens and coaxing nearby cells to repair the damage.
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2016/03/scientists_cure102681.html
StemExpress CEO jokes about shipping whole heads of aborted babies to research labs - August 21, 2015
http://liveactionnews.org/stemexpress-ceo-jokes-shipping-whole-heads-aborted-babies-research-labs/
Science Site Justifies Burning Aborted Babies for Energy - May 2014
http://crev.info/2014/05/science-site-justifies-fetal-energy/
Embryonic stem cells: Where are the cures? - June 5, 2013
Excerpt: There is one bright spot. Japanese researcher, Shinya Yamanaka, who had rejected embryonic stem cell research as unethical, and who won last year’s Nobel Prize for Medicine, has pioneered the creation of stem cell lines from skin cells without destroying embryos. Consequently, with hardly a whisper and certainly no apologies, most stem cell scientists have now turned their backs on embryonic stem cell research to follow Shinya’s lead.
Ten years on.
Thousands, probably hundreds of thousands, of lives killed under microscopes.
Not one cure.
Not one apology.
http://headhearthand.org/blog/2013/06/05/embryonic-stem-cells-where-are-the-cures/
Symptoms: Notes from the Biological Literature (3)
“Context Is Everything” - Stephen L. Talbott - January 8, 2015
http://natureinstitute.org/txt/st/org/comm/ar/2015/lit-notes3_26.htm
Top Japan lab dismisses ground-breaking stem cell study - Dec. 26, 2014
Japan's top research institute on Friday hammered the final nail in the coffin of what was once billed as a ground-breaking stem cell study, dismissing it as flawed and saying the work could have been fabricated.,,,
Another way of generating stem cells from adult skin cells, called induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS), are cumbersome compared with the method which Obokata claimed to have discovered, scientists have said.
http://phys.org/news/2014-12-japan-lab-dismisses-ground-breaking-stem.html
New way of producing pluripotent stem cells stuns biologists - January 31, 2014
Excerpt: While it takes two to three weeks to produce iPS cells, STAP cells can be produced in as little as about two days.
Furthermore, STAP cells are considered to be in a more embryonic stage as they can be transformed into placental tissue, a potential that ES cells and iPS cells do not have…
In addition, STAP cells are unlikely to turn cancerous in the body.,,,
Dr. Charles Vacanti of Harvard Medical School, a coauthor of the paper, believes the study proves the team’s hypothesis that in injured or otherwise damaged tissues, mature cells revert to stem cells to repair damage…
But there’s more. Harvard University has already used STAP cells to cure a monkey paralyzed from the waist down, writes reporter Tatsuo Nakajima:
According to Prof. Koji Kojima of Harvard Medical School, a member of the research team, STAP cells were created from cells collected from the monkey, whose legs and tail were disabled due to spinal cord damage, and transplanted them into the monkey.
After the treatment, the monkey became able to move its legs and tail, he said.
Dolly Scientist Says Abandon Embryonic Stem Cell Research - December 2011
Excerpt: Ian Wilmut, the scientist who achieved international notoriety for cloning the sheep Dolly, is now urging his fellow scientists and researchers to abandon embryonic stem cell research.
His comments at a conference follow on the major news that Geron, a cloning company the Obama administration funded to undertake the first human clinical trials involving embryonic-like stem cells, abruptly canceled the trials and got out of the embryonic stem cell research business.
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/12/05/dolly-scientist-says-abandon-embryonic-stem-cell-research/
150 human animal hybrids grown in UK labs: Embryos have been produced secretively for the past three years - July 2011
Excerpt: ‘At every stage the justification from scientists has been: if only you allow us to do this, we will find cures for every illness known to mankind. This is emotional blackmail.
‘Of the 80 treatments and cures which have come about from stem cells, all have come from adult stem cells – not embryonic ones.
‘On moral and ethical grounds this fails; and on scientific and medical ones too.’
Stem Cell Reprogramming Researchers Win Nobel Prize in Medicine - October 8, 2012
Excerpt: Two stem cell researchers, British researcher John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka of Japan, are the winners of the 2012 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work on reprogramming adult stem cells to have embryonic-like properties.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home
Adult Stem Cell Breakthroughs Continue - November 28, 2012
Excerpt: Adult stem cells: proven track record, no ethical qualms. Embryonic stem cells: no track record, large ethical qualms. Enough said?
http://crev.info/2012/11/adult-stem-cell-breakthroughs-continue/
Study shows potential of differentiated iPS cells in cell therapy without immune rejection - January 25, 2013
Excerpt: iPS cells can be developed from adult cell types, such as skin or blood, by returning them to a stem cell state using genetic manipulation. iPS cells are capable of maturing (differentiating) into all the specific cell types in the body, making them a powerful tool for biological research and a source of tissues for transplantation based therapies. Given that iPS cells can be made in a patient-specific manner, there should be great potential for them to be transplanted back into the same patient without rejection.
http://phys.org/news/2013-01-potential-differentiated-ips-cells-cell.html
Follow the Stem Cell Money - November 2011
Excerpt: “At long last after 10 years of unremitting hype, reality has caught up with embryonic stem cell claims,” Josephine Quintavalle from Comment on Reproductive Ethics said. “If Geron is abandoning this project it is because it is simply not working, despite the millions of dollars and hot air that has been invested in the promotion of this research.”,,, Adult stem cells race ahead: Meanwhile, Azellon Cell Therapeutics got a funding windfall for its clinical trials on a “Stem Cell Bandage” therapy, which uses a patient’s own stem cells from bone marrow to repair torn knees and other injuries. Investors seem keen on putting their money where the real hope is.
http://crev.info/content/111115-follow_the_stem_cell_money
Faster, safer method for producing (Adult) stem cells - December 4, 2012
Excerpt: A new method for generating stem cells from mature cells promises to boost stem cell production in the laboratory, helping to remove a barrier to regenerative medicine therapies that would replace damaged or unhealthy body tissues.,,,
Aside from the well-known ethical controversies, ESCs, "embryonic stem cells," have a less discussed problem: Tissues grown from ESCs may trigger immune reactions when they are transplanted into patients.,,,
Using ILC, the group reprogrammed human fibroblasts (adult skin cells) to become angioblast-like cells, the progenitors of vascular cells. These new cells could not only proliferate, but also further differentiate into endothelial and smooth muscle vascular lineages. When implanted in mice, these cells integrated into the animals' existing vasculature.
"One of the long-term hopes for stem cell research is exemplified by this study, where stem cells would self-assemble into 3D structures and then integrate into existing tissues," says Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte. While such clinical use may be years away, this new method has several advantages over current techniques, he explains. It is safer, since it does not seem to produce tumors or other undesirable genetic changes, and results in much greater yield than other methods. Most important, it is faster, and this is part of what makes it not only more productive, but less risky. "Generally it can take up to two months to create iPSCs and their differentiated derivatives, which increases the chances for mutations to take place," says Emmanuel Nivet, the third of the first co-authors. "Our method takes only 15 days, so we've substantially decreased the chances for spontaneous mutations to take place."
http://phys.org/news/2012-12-faster-safer-method-stem-cells.html
Embryonic Stem Cells Left in iPS Dust - 05/23/2011
http://www.creationsafaris.com/crev201105.htm#20110523a
Use of (Adult) Stem Cells in Personalized Medicine - (Nov. 26, 2012)
Excerpt: In a so-called "proof of concept" experiment, the researchers biochemically reprogrammed the skin cells from the patient to form iPSCs, which can grow into any cell type in the body. The team then induced the iPSCs to grow into nerve cells. "Because we could study the nerve cells directly, we could for the first time see exactly what was going wrong in this disease,"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121126151021.htm
Scientists bring new efficiency to stem cell reprogramming - September 13, 2012
Excerpt: Several years ago, biologists discovered that regular body cells can be reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells—cells with the ability to become any other type of cell. Such cells hold great promise for treating many human diseases.
These induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are usually created by genetically modifying cells to overexpress four genes that make them revert to an immature, embryonic state. However, the procedure works in only a small percentage of cells. Now, new genetic markers identified by researchers at Whitehead Institute and MIT could help make that process more efficient, allowing scientists to predict which treated cells will successfully become pluripotent.
http://phys.org/news/2012-09-scientists-efficiency-stem-cell-reprogramming.html
Neurosurgeons Use Adult Stem Cells to Grow Neck Vertebrae - ScienceDaily (Sep. 6, 2011)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110906152501.htm
Embryonic Stem Cells left in the dust again by Adult Stem Cells:
Patients' Skin Cells Turned Into Heart Muscle Cells to Repair Their Damaged Hearts - ScienceDaily (May 22, 2012)
Excerpt: "In this study we have shown for the first time that it's possible to establish hiPSCs from heart failure patients -- who represent the target patient population for future cell therapy strategies using these cells -- and coax them to differentiate into heart muscle cells that can integrate with host cardiac tissue," said Prof Gepstein.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120522200627.htm
Warning this following study may sadden, and upset, people who value human life.
Body may be able to 'coach' transplanted stem cells to differentiate appropriately - November 19, 2012
Excerpt: The researchers removed a 4 millimeter circle of bone from the skulls of anesthetized laboratory mice—a defect just large enough to stymie the natural healing properties of the bone's endogenous stem cells. They then implanted in the damaged area a tiny, artificial scaffold coated with a protein called BMP-2 that they knew (from previous experiments) stimulated bone growth. Each scaffold was seeded with 1 million human stem cells. They then waited and watched for several months as the bone regrew.
"We found that the human cells formed bone and repaired the defect," said Longaker. "What's more, over time that human bone created by the stem cells was eventually replaced by mouse bone as part of the natural turnover process. So the repair was physiologically normal." The researchers credit the regrowth to the tandem nature of a macroenvironment of bone damage and a microenvironment of scaffolding coated with a bone-growth-triggering molecule.
The researchers tested the ability of both human embryonic stem cells and human induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, to heal the defects. (iPS cells are generated in the laboratory from fully differentiated cells like those found in skin, whereas embryonic stem cells are isolated from human embryos.) They found that the iPS cells seeded onto the BMP-2-containing scaffolds healed more than 96 percent of the defect within eight weeks of transplantation. Human embryonic stem cells were similarly successful, healing 99 percent of the defect within eight weeks. In addition to repairing the defect, the technique also produced relatively few dangerous teratomas: Two out of 42 animals in the study developed the tumors. (Both teratomas occurred in animals that had received embryonic stem cells, rather than iPS cells.)
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-body-transplanted-stem-cells-differentiate.html
Are Embryonic Stem Cells Obsolete? - September 2011
Excerpt: Adult stem cells can apparently do everything embryonic stem cells can – and they are moving regenerative medicine forward faster, with more results. Since the use of human embryos for research is ethically repugnant to many people, what motivations remain to continue the practice? Here is a rapid-fire list of stem cell news this month:
http://crev.info/content/110911-embryonic_stem_cells_obsolete
Umbilical cord, & Adult Stem Cells v. Embryonic Stem Cells - 2007
So which is better: embryonic stem cells or adult stem cells? Thus far, embryonic stem cells can't currently treat any diseases, while adult stem cells have helped patients with 72 conditions.
http://www.stemcellresearch.org/facts/treatments.htm
When Politics Holds Science Hostage - Anika Smith April 13, 2011
Excerpt: The only problem with this story is that the therapy that healed Charlie uses adult stem cells, from a donor. Yet when Charlie's mother testified impassionedly to the Minnesota legislature, you had to search carefully in media reports for the information that her son's healing actually had no connection with embryonic stem cells.
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2011/04/when_politics_holds_science_ho045801.html
Scientists find stem cell reprogramming technique is safer than previously thought - October 2011
Excerpt: Stem cells made by reprogramming patients' own cells might one day be used as therapies for a host of diseases, but scientists have feared that dangerous mutations within these cells might be caused by current reprogramming techniques. A sophisticated new analysis of stem cells' DNA finds that such fears may be unwarranted.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-sscientists-stem-cell-reprogramming-technique.html
Stem Cell News: Jan. 2010
Excerpt: Dr. Gregory Brent (UCLA) told an audience Saturday night that embryonic stem cells have yet to produce one treatment, while adult stem cells are currently treating millions.
http://www.creationsafaris.com/crev201001.htm#20100118a
Who Needs Embryonic Stem Cells?
“New techniques circumvent a roadblock to the production of embryonic-stem-cell-like lines from adult tissue. Such reprogrammed cell lines should be much safer to use for therapy.”
http://www.creationsafaris.com/crev200905.htm#20090503a
(Adult) Stem Cells Promise Regeneration (Embryonic Stem Cells A Bust) - March 2010
http://www.creationsafaris.com/crev201003.htm#20100331a
Adult Stem Cells Lead Health Progress - July 2010
http://www.creationsafaris.com/crev201007.htm#20100720a
Stem Cell News: Adults Still Lead - August 2010
Excerpt: An ethicist quoted in the article, however, dubbed all the efforts for a decade to use ES (Embryonic Stem) cells for therapy as “fruitless.”
http://www.creationsafaris.com/crev201008.htm#20100806a
Big Gains for Adult Stem Cells Announced - October 2010
Excerpt: “Using reprogrammed body cells to treat disease would overcome one of the major hurdles to using embryonic stem cells, which is that embryonic cells would likely cause an immune reaction in the patient.”
http://www.creationsafaris.com/crev201010.htm#20101004a
Modern Miracle: Skin Transformed into Blood (Without Destroying Human Embryos) - November 2010
Excerpt: The Canadians bypassed all those problems by finding growth factors (substances that regulate cell division and survival) that could directly reprogram skin cells into blood cells. That not only bypasses the stem cell stage with all its issues, but it creates adult blood cells that can be used for transplantation into adults.
http://www.livescience.com/health/blood-skin-stem-cells-101107.html
Harvard researchers identify new aspect of cell reprogramming - November 2010
Excerpt: The new finding follows by less than two months the discovery by HSCI’s Derrick Rossi and colleagues that skin cells could be returned to an embryonic stem cell-like state using specially engineered synthetic mRNAs, eliminating the need to use viruses that can induce cancers to develop.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-harvard-aspect-cell-reprogramming.html
Tipping Point for Embryonic Stem Cells? - February 2011
http://www.creationsafaris.com/crev201102.htm#20110213a
Brave New Chimeras - August 2011
Excerpt: Adult stem cell research continues to offer promising treatments, while news about embryonic stem cell progress is notable for its absence. In just the last ten days, these gains were reported for ASC research: