Article: MPs support embryo law ; COMMONS: Ban rejected on human-animal hybrids

Article: Stem Cells: Next Type of Sports Doping?
AP Online;  September 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ...LONDON - For athletes, stem cells have much more than the potential...the competition. If it sounds like stem cells are next frontier for doping in sports...There's a spin-off technology from stem cells that could produce super-athletes...

Article: STEM CELLS MAY BE NEXT FRONTIER \ POTENTIAL USE RAISES ETHICAL QUESTIONS.(Sports)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  September 8, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Associated Press LONDON -- For athletes, stem cells have much more than the potential to...over the competition. If it sounds like stem cells are next frontier for doping in sports...be. There's a spin-off technology from stem cells that could produce super-athletes, said...

Article: Scientists help tease out 'good' stem cells.(FRONT)
The Record (Kitchener, Ontario);  January 5, 2009 ;     512 words ......of the big worries about one day using stem cells to grow new organs and other tissues...researchers have found a way to tell good stem cells from bad. Basically what we've done is...Known as the body's master cells, stem cells have the ability to give rise to, or...

Article: Will stem cells transform medicine?
Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings;  April 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...In 1998, human pluripotent stem cells--self-renewing, unspecialized cells that...scientists to explore the potential of stem cells to regenerate in place of damaged cells...insulin-dependent diabetes, or heart failure by using stem cells to grow new organs or tissues? Can these...

Article: Stem cells harvested during plastic surgery
Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  December 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Bahram Ghaderi checks on the collection of stem cells during a liposuction procedure Friday...California-based company StemSource to harvest stem cells -- a technology at the cutting edge of...usually discarded after liposuction. Stem cells are thought to have enormous potential...

Article: The holy grail of medical science: to create the ultimate body- repair kit Parkinson's disease, hepatitis and damaged spinal cords could all be cured with injections of stem cells. Steve Connor explains
The Independent - London;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Stem cells have been the holy grail of medicine...showing that it was possible to extract stem cells from early human embryos and grow them...specialised tissues. The idea behind stem cells is beautifully simple. If doctors had...

Article: Stem cells not clear solution to cure diseases.
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  August 3, 2004 ;     700+ words ......few Americans concerned themselves with stem cells. Now the phrase conjures up hope for...big money for biotech companies. Yet stem cells are still a long way from curing paralysis...become mired in confusion and controversy. Stem cells turn out to be more complicated and less...

Article: A new look into cancer's roots: Scientists revive study of stem cells' link to disease.
Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD);  March 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Chris Emery Mar. 19--Scientists hope that someday stem cells will cure diseases. Pamela Joseph fears that cancer stem cells will kill her first. As her doctors explain it, stem cells are the source of multiple myeloma, a blood cancer the...

Article: Doctors harvest stem cells during liposuction surgery
Courier-News (Elgin, IL);  December 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Bahram Ghaderi examines the collection of stem cells from patient Wes Hayes during a liposuction...California-based company, to harvest stem cells -- a technology at the cutting edge of...usually is discarded after liposuction. Stem cells are thought to have enormous potential...

Article: Study links inflammation, stem cells
Daily Breeze;  January 3, 2005 ;     540 words ...Scientists have known that stem cells restore the body's health by targeting...researchers couldn't say exactly how stem cells began this work in the first place. One...study recently published online, is that stem cells travel to sites of trouble by sensing...

Article: Myogenic stem cells
Folia Histochemica et Cytobiologica;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......and bone marrow tissue contain myogenic stem cells. The population residing in muscles is...population is group of multipotent muscle stem cells which, at least in part, are derived...change their phenotype becoming muscle stem cells and eventually can attain satellite cell...

Article: Can Science Bridge the Stem Cell Divide?(embryonic stem cells)(Editorial)
Genomics and Proteomics;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Discussions about the use of embryonic stem cells are taking on the heat and rhetoric...debate over the use of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) could be effectively sidestepped, if only adult (somatic) stem cells could behave the same way that embryonic...

Article: Analysis: Scientists report promising results from studies with human adult stem cells
NPR All Things Considered;  March 6, 2002 ;     638 words ......promising results from studies with human adult stem cells Host: ROBERT SIEGEL Time: 9:00-10:00 PM ROBERT...promising results from studies with human adult stem cells. If adult stem cells turn out to be useful for treating human diseases...

Article: ADULT BONE MARROW STEM CELLS SHOW PROMISE
United Press International;  December 20, 2002 ;     698 words ...00-00-0000 Adult bone marrow stem cells show promise LOS ANGELES, Dec 20, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Stem cells taken from adult bone marrow show potential...tested the possible benefits to using stem cells extracted from adult bone marrow in rats...