By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
President Barack Obama’s decision to lift the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research in the U.S. has drawn swift condemnation from the Vatican and the Christian community throughout the world.
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Patients Struggle to Afford Adult Stem Cell Therapies
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
While the Obama administration prepares to dump billions of taxpayer dollars into the controversial and now obsolete embryonic stem cell research, people who have been helped with adult stem cell technology are struggling to pay the bills because of insufficient funding.
Fetal Stem Cells Cause Brain Tumor in Teen
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
An Israeli teen with a rare brain disease has developed tumors in the brain after receiving experimental injections of neural stem cells obtained from the brains of aborted fetuses.
FDA Approves Human Trials with Embryonic Stem Cells
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
A U.S. biotech company has been given permission by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to perform the first human trials with cells derived from embryonic stem cells.
Australia Will Permit Human Cloning
By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
The world’s first license to created cloned human embryos for research has been granted by the Australian government to an in vitro fertilization (IVF) in Sydney.
Your Teeth Could Save Your Life!
Staff Writer
The latest breakthrough in stem cell research may be bad news for the tooth fairy but good news for anyone who has lost a few teeth.
U.S. Bishops Call Embryonic Stem Cell Research “Gravely Immoral”
by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
By a vote of 191-1, the U.S. bishops recently adopted a statement on embryonic stem cell research in which they call experimentation on human embryos “the deliberate killing of human beings, a gravely immoral act.” It also condemned attempts to force citizens to pay for such research, saying it would “make taxpayers complicit in such killings . . .”
Stem Cell Tourism on the Rise
by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Exaggerated hype by the media and scientists in search of funding about the potential use of embryonic stem cells to treat crippling diseases and conditions is being blamed for a growing worldwide stem-cell tourism market.
