All posts tagged "Embryonic Stem Cells"

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), one of Congress’ most outspoken abortion rights opponents, disclosed that her husband invests in a company that utilizes human embryonic stem cells to treat disabilities, a Raw Story review of congressional financial documents.

The congressional financial disclosures indicate that Andrew Gamberzky, Luna’s husband, holds a stock investment worth between $1,001 and $15,000 in Lineage Cell Therapeutics.

The California-based company says it intends to “pioneer a new branch of medicine based on transplanting specific cell types to patients with serious medical conditions,” such as paralysis, using proprietary technology and therapies....

Any cell can be rewound to a pre-embryonic state, according to stem cell researchers.

Scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine issued a report this month that said a type of stem-cell alternative approved by the Vatican and other theologians has turned out to be a myth. According to an essay by bioethicist Arthur Caplan, Dr. Irving Weissman and his team have concluded that so-called very small embryonic-like (VSEL) stem cells are at best a laboratory error and at worst a deliberate fraud perpetrated on the scientific and religious communities.

Scientists on Monday said that for the first time they had printed 3D objects using human embryonic stem cells, furthering the quest to fabricate transplantable organs.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Before treatment, the 51-year-old graphic artist was legally blind, unable to read a single letter on a standard eye chart. She has suffered from Stargardt's disease, the most common form of macular degeneration in young patients, since she was a teenager, and it was getting progressively worse.