stem cell news

Stem cell research among most cited papers in biomedicine

Obama lifts restrictions for stem cell research... let's hope he continues to progress towards technologies that will benefit americans.

In some ways, all the opposition researchers faced due to bush only forced them to be more creative... leading to the skin cell to stem cell technique that was just so recently greatly improved. Hopefully, something so inevasive really could become the gold standadrd for regen. medicine therapies, so I guess bush was good for something... he made things so much more difficult that everything now will seem like a breeze by comparison.

BANGALORE (Reuters) - Human Genome Sciences' (HGSI.O) drug to treat chronic hepatitis C met the main goal in a late-stage trial, but failed to show numerically better efficacy compared to standard-of-care, raising questions about the drug's adoption and sending shares crashing to an all-time low.

btw, I wrote a 10 page essay about hep c... it's called the silent epidemic, with vast worldwide influence, and some medical professionals consider it the next great pandemic. I think it will be ok, but just something to keep in mind.

A watery mission: NASA's first planet-hunting telescope heads into space

It's my theory that life doesn't need liquid water to exist... maybe someday it will be proven or refuted.