• US lawmakers debated embryonic stem cell research Tuesday in the aftermath of fabricated experiments in South Korea. (jpost.com)
  • Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Democrat, said that "opponents of embryonic stem cell research seem to have difficulty containing their glee" over the case of disgraced cloning researcher Hwang Woo-suk, who is now under investigation for fraudulent claims of human stem cell breakthroughs. (jpost.com)
  • Dr. James Battey, chairman of the National Institutes of Health stem cell task force, said that while the South Korean fraud was unacceptable, "it does not reflect on the potential of human embryonic stem cell research one way or the other. (jpost.com)
  • The papers made fantastic claims about embryonic stem cell research studies that turned out to be false. (lifenews.com)
  • But first, Mr. Limbaugh's view on embryonic stem cell research. (stemcellbattles.net)
  • Without a pregnancy, (and there are none in embryonic stem cell research) how can there be an abortion? (stemcellbattles.net)
  • In embryonic stem cell research, there is no implantation in the womb, no womb, no pregnancy- no baby-so how can there possibly be an abortion? (stemcellbattles.net)
  • Five years after a budget-busting $3 billion dollars was allocated to embryonic stem cell research, there have been no cures, no therapies, and little progress… backers of Prop 71 are admitting failure… This is from an Investor's Business Day editorial…This is what happens when you make science a political issue. (stemcellbattles.net)
  • We- for this is California's program, and America's- we are using embryonic stem cell research (escr) as a primary weapon in this fight. (stemcellbattles.net)
  • Voted YES on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (harmonyevans.com)
  • To provide for human embryonic stem cell research. (harmonyevans.com)
  • It's the ecumenical document that addresses the issues of abortion, embryonic stem cell research, euthanasia and assisted suicide, same sex marriage, and conscience protection for those refusing to support those immoralities. (blogspot.com)
  • In January 2006, Hwang's home research institution, Seoul National University, delivered a damning report about Hwang's work on cloned human embryos, concluding it was all based on fraudulent data. (nature.com)
  • He specified that they used 242 eggs from 16 unpaid volunteers, out which they collected about 100 cell were made from which 30 embryos were developed. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since the embryos had adult DNA, the resulting stem cells became clones of the adult somatic cells. (wikipedia.org)
  • The recent desperation to clone human embryos may be seriously undermining accepted ethical principles of medical research, with potentially profound wider consequences. (lifeissues.net)
  • Among the real and knotty ethical questions are these: Should human embryos be created expressly to be used for stem cell extraction? (prospect.org)
  • Should women be paid to donate eggs or fertilized embryos to stem cell labs? (prospect.org)
  • He decreed that stem cell colonies produced before Aug. 9, 2001, could continue to receive federal funding for research purposes but no federal money could go to develop new stem cells from embryos. (prospect.org)
  • Hwang Woo-suk was hailed as a national hero in 2004 for claiming in the journal Science that he had created the world's first cloned human embryos and had extracted stem cells from them. (newser.com)
  • In 2006, a committee investigating the laboratory of Woo Suk Hwang at Seoul National University determined they fabricated data in two studies which claimed to clone human embryos. (browntth.com)
  • He rose to public notice in 1999 when he announced that he had successfully cloned a dairy cow, named Yeongrong-i, and a few months later, a Korean cow, Jin-i (also reported as Yin-i). (wikipedia.org)
  • The other paper claimed Hwang's team successfully cloned a human embryo to be killed for her stem cells. (lifenews.com)
  • A chronology of Woo Suk Hwang's stem-cell research. (nature.com)
  • Do our only cloned primates come from the lab of Woo Suk Hwang's colleague? (nature.com)
  • Suspicion and controversy arose in late 2005, when Hwang's collaborator, Gerald Schatten at the University of Pittsburgh, came to know of the real source of oocytes (egg cells) used in the 2004 study. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hwang's team had developed an improved method of somatic cell nuclear transfer using which they could transfer the nuclei of somatic (non-reproductive) cells into egg cells which had their nuclei removed. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hwang's work won credence because of the backing of the journal and it gained further weight when a leading U.S. stem cell expert, Dr. Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, lent his name to it. (blogspot.com)
  • Hwang's 2004 paper in Science described cloning stem cells from DNA transplanted into a woman's egg. (blogspot.com)
  • Hwang and his research team at the Seoul National University reported in the journal Science that they successfully developed a somatic cell nuclear transfer method with which they made the stem cells. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ethically, since eventually all such "research" will be applied to people, he cautions against the abuse of women "egg" donors, and against the premature use of vulnerable sick human patients for testing supposedly "patient-specific" stem cells in supposed "therapies", pointing to the obvious violations of standard international research ethics guidelines such clinical trials would necessarily entail. (lifeissues.net)
  • Should expensive therapies derived from stem cell research be covered universally by health insurance? (prospect.org)
  • They initiated multiple programs involving the concept of therapeutic cloning, with the aim of developing cellular therapies through cloning technology. (stanete.com)
  • With the emergence of 3D bio-printing, stem cell technologies, CART cell therapy, etc., we are at the cusp to witness the next therapeutic revolution that is striding from single cell component (current protein, mRNA based therapeutics) to a whole cell-based therapies. (pharmafocusasia.com)
  • The South Korean stem-cell researcher Woo Suk Hwang has been at the centre of one of the largest investigations of scientific fraud in living memory. (nature.com)
  • With Hwang discredited, both the field of therapeutic cloning and the public's trust in science have suffered a serious setback. (nature.com)
  • The Hwang affair, or Hwang scandal, or Hwanggate, is a case of scientific misconduct and ethical issues surrounding a South Korean biologist, Hwang Woo-suk, who claimed to have created the first human embryonic stem cells by cloning in 2004. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hwang Woo-suk was a professor of veterinary biotechnology at the Seoul National University and specialised in stem cell research. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2004, Hwang announced the first complete cloning of human embryo. (wikipedia.org)
  • On January 4, 2006, Reuters reported that the journal Science will retract a paper written by disgraced Korean stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk and colleagues, accused of faking part of a study on tailored embryonic stem cells, with the retraction announcement coming about one month after Science announced that the only problem was a misunderstanding about photographs. (blogspot.com)
  • Hwang was the first scientist to publish a paper showing, in 2004, that his team had actually cloned a human cell to provide a source of embryonic stem cells -- master cells that can provide a source of any type of tissue or cell in the body. (blogspot.com)
  • At least one researcher, Robert Lanza, vice president of scientific development at Advanced Cell Technology Inc. in Worcester, Massachusetts, said he asked after the 2004 paper was published that Hwang give samples to another lab to verify. (blogspot.com)
  • Hwang and 24 co-authors said in the May, 2005 paper that they completed the first transplant of DNA from patients' skin cells into the egg cells of unrelated donors. (blogspot.com)
  • Hwang Woo-suk, who falsely claimed to have achieved major breakthroughs in stem cell research on human clones, avoided jail as the court suspended a two-year prison term for him. (newser.com)
  • Hwang has since started a new animal cloning lab and hopes to continue the kind of research that led to the creation of Snuppy, the first cloned dog. (lifenews.com)
  • The research, published in the 12 March 2004 issue of Science, was reported as "Evidence of a pluripotent human embryonic stem cell line derived from a cloned blastocyst. (wikipedia.org)
  • The new egg cell divided normally and grew into blastocyst, an early embryo characterised by a hollow ball of cells. (wikipedia.org)
  • He said no human clinical trials or therapeutic applications using human embryonic stem cells currently exist. (jpost.com)
  • At the same time, there are indeed myriad ethical questions raised by the effort to develop therapeutic applications of stem cell cloning. (prospect.org)
  • It was the first instance of cloning of adult human cells and human embryonic stem cells. (wikipedia.org)
  • Within a few years, unless the religious right manages to stop it, specialized cells developed from either embryonic or adult cells will be used therapeutically to treat everything from Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, diabetes, spinal injuries, heriditary impairments, and even the regeneration of diseased organs. (prospect.org)
  • Finally, and inexorably, a true professional scientist poses clearly challenging questions to his research colleagues, and to the scientific enterprise in general, about the dubious "scientific" justification for the current rush to clone human beings - for both "therapeutic" and for "reproductive" purposes. (lifeissues.net)
  • The disgraced South Korean scientist who falsely claimed major breakthroughs in stem cell research in human clones was convicted of embezzlement and other charges, but was acquitted of fraud and received only a suspended sentence. (newser.com)
  • Back in July, I took note of a paper published by a real stem cell scientist, Paul Knoepfler, who has described many of these clinics accurately as " unapproved, for-profit human experimentation . (respectfulinsolence.com)
  • Dr. Piero Anversa's research career truly took off at an American Heart Association meeting in the year 2000 when he broadcasted the groundbreaking claim that injecting bone marrow stem cells into mouse hearts induced tissue regeneration. (browntth.com)
  • But as Nature wrote , "People who recover [even] from mild COVID-19 have bone-marrow cells that can churn out antibodies for decades. (fearunmasked.com)
  • Thus, aside from the robust T-cell memory that is likely lacking from most or all vaccinated individuals, prior infection creates memory B cells that "patrol the blood for reinfection, while bone marrow plasma cells (BMPCs) hide away in bones, trickling out antibodies for decades" as needed. (fearunmasked.com)
  • Cloning: Do we even need eggs? (nature.com)
  • In 2005, they published again in Science the successful cloning of 11 person-specific stem cells using 185 human eggs. (wikipedia.org)
  • They used human egg cells and cumulus cells, which are found in ovaries near the developing eggs and are known to be good source of nuclear transfer. (wikipedia.org)
  • Rep. Mark Souder, Republican chairman of the House of Representatives Government Reform subcommittee on criminal justice and drug policy, said he was disturbed by reports that women in South Korea were paid to donate their eggs for the fraudulent research. (jpost.com)
  • He explained that the early embryonic cells that his laboratory tries to turn into specialized tissue for therapeutic purposes hadn't even ''individuated'' yet. (prospect.org)
  • The process, they said, created stem cells that might be grown into healthy tissue to replace those of people with diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and other disorders. (blogspot.com)
  • Plants can be cloned using tissue culture. (shalom-education.com)
  • And he also agrees that if we don't find global agreement on human cloning, "we can probably expect dire consequences for the future of biomedical research and its impact on society at large. (lifeissues.net)
  • But he is equally concerned about the unethical aspects inherent in the rush to perform " therapeutic " human cloning research, including the abuses to all vulnerable human patients who would be required to participate in clinical trials. (lifeissues.net)
  • As he has questioned the HFEA before, would not the use of vulnerable human patients in clinical trials be premature, dangerous, and unethical given the already acquired knowledge in the research community that such supposed "patient-specific" stem cells would most probably cause serious immune rejection reactions in these patients? (lifeissues.net)
  • On the issue of stem cell research, the gap between the scientific and religious cultures has never been wider. (prospect.org)
  • The potential of stem cell research to enhance human life is extraordinary. (prospect.org)
  • The life-enhancing promise of stem cell research is just too potent and the ethical questions too tricky to leave the issue in the hands either of private entrepreneurs or religious fundamentalists, much less both. (prospect.org)
  • A university committee later found the report was fraudulent and the journal retracted his research. (newser.com)
  • In handling fraudulent stem-cell research articles, journal editors went above and beyond existing procedures to try and verify the findings, but in today's competitive publishing environment, more stringent, less trusting safeguards are now essential,' the committe said, according to a Science statement LifeNews.com obtained. (lifenews.com)
  • This policy position details GSK's uses of cloning, gene modification, and stem cell technologies for drug discovery and development to advance medical research. (gsk.com)
  • You can rely on NCER to report life-giving ethical research successes, and to expose unethical, even fraudulent practices. (ethicalresearch.net)
  • Stem cell research has been replete with fraud, such as the Harvard Stem Cell Scandal, in which 3 researchers made claims that were unsubstantiated, resulting in thirty papers being retracted. (ethicalresearch.net)
  • Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (harmonyevans.com)
  • Instead, we should foster all of these methods, and we should adequately fund and have ethical oversight over all ethical stem cell research. (harmonyevans.com)
  • Amniotic fluid stem cells are now available to open a broad new area of research. (harmonyevans.com)
  • The Reuters report does not mention the retraction in 2002 by both Science and Nature of fraudulent papers by Jan-Hendrik Schon. (blogspot.com)
  • Human heart tissues grown as three-dimensional spheroids and consisting of different cardiac cell types derived from pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) recapitulate aspects of human physiology better than standard two-dimensional models in vitro. (bvsalud.org)
  • An induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) line, in which a H2B-fluorescent protein fusion is temporally expressed, is a valuable tool to track cells and study cell divisions and apoptosis. (bvsalud.org)
  • Recently, in combination with cardiomyocytes derived from human (induced) pluripotent stem cells they have started to become a preferred tool to examine newly developed drugs for potential cardiac toxicity in pre-clinical safety pharmacology. (bvsalud.org)
  • We then validated the model in both primary mouse- and human pluripotent (embryonic) stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes showing that field potentials measured in MEAs could be converted to action potentials that were essentially identical to those determined directly by electrophysiological patch clamp. (bvsalud.org)
  • The recent findings of the pluripotent epithelial cells demonstrates how quickly the world has changed. (harmonyevans.com)
  • We demonstrated that fully functional EHTs could be generated from physiologically relevant combinations of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes (70%), cardiac fibroblasts (15%) and cardiac endothelial cells (15%), using as few as 1.6 × 104 cells. (bvsalud.org)
  • C-kit+ cells minimally contribute cardiomyocytes to the heart. (browntth.com)
  • In the paper, he identified at least 570 stem cell clinics operating in the US and discussed some of the dubious claims found on their websites. (respectfulinsolence.com)
  • I recently participated in a debate at the Harvard Medical School on the ethics of stem cell cloning. (prospect.org)
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  • Right here in the good ol' USA, there are clinics claiming that stem cells can cure arthritis, dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, diabetes, and host of other chronic diseases and conditions. (respectfulinsolence.com)
  • The story of a stem cell star, as written in 2005, before allegations of fraud were levelled against the work. (nature.com)
  • We previously generated a doxycycline-inducible H2B-mTurq2 reporter in hiPSCs to track cells and study cell division and apoptosis. (bvsalud.org)
  • It induces genomic instability and eventually leads to either apoptosis or cell senescence (which are different types of cell death). (stanete.com)
  • Furthermore, studies have shown that scientific misconduct is on the rise , and perhaps no sub-field has experienced this reality more than stem cell biology. (browntth.com)
  • Stem cell biology quickly became a hot field with promising applications in regenerative medicine. (browntth.com)
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  • Despite growing numbers of respected labs failing to reproduce data supporting either of those claims, Harvard took years to complete investigations debunking his fraudulent experiments. (browntth.com)
  • The journal's current procedures, based on an assumption of trust in the basic integrity of the vast majority of researchers, must be revised to acknowledge the risk of misleading, distorted, or fraudulent findings,' the committee concluded. (lifenews.com)
  • When the trophoblast cells were cultured, they could divide and form different tissues, indicating that they were viable stem cells. (wikipedia.org)
  • using embryonic stem cells…I'm telling you, and I have from the get-go, who is behind this-is the-the militant pro-abortion crowd, because you need abortions to get these …" Rush Limbaugh, July 19, 2006 (emphasis added). (stemcellbattles.net)
  • A six-person review committee consisting of stem cell researchers, an editor from the journal Nature, and members of the Science editorial boad determined that the editors of Science followed the correct review procedures at the time the papers were published. (lifenews.com)
  • Maybe because it's hard to distinguish between fraudulent science pushed by intellectual dishonesty, and good intentioned but unlucky and bad timed strategy. (stanete.com)
  • You end up with fraudulent, fake, politically-oriented causes that have nothing to do with science, and everything about it ends up being a lie. (stemcellbattles.net)
  • The papers claimed the team created patient specific embryonic stem cells that would overcome the problems of a patient's immune system rejecting the cells in treatments. (lifenews.com)
  • I learned about the unrelentingly positive spin the media tend to place on stem cell treatments when I first started blogging about Gordie Howe's stroke and Dr. Maynard Howe (CEO) and Dave McGuigan (VP) of Stemedica Cell Technologies reached out to the Howe family to see if it could help him with its products. (respectfulinsolence.com)
  • For its potential medical value to replace diseased and damaged cells, several scientists have tried to clone the human embryo, but in vain. (wikipedia.org)
  • Predictably, a sort of race emerged among scientists to find the next new population of stem cells. (browntth.com)
  • So theoretically the discovery would allow scientists grow new heart cells to repair damage from heart attacks, new liver cells to treat hepatitis, and new red blood cells for cancer patients. (stanete.com)
  • This type of cells have the ability to differentiate into any cell type. (stanete.com)
  • The cell count and differential count are used to differentiate between non inflammatory effusions e. (newnails-fl.de)
  • Dr. Henderson claims that RMG has helped "dozens" of children with autism using his stem cell therapy, further claiming that most of the time the change noted in the patient is major. (respectfulinsolence.com)
  • The resulting hiPSC reporter line generated, which we named ProLiving, is a valuable tool to study cell division and cell cycle characteristics in living hiPSC-derived cells. (bvsalud.org)
  • Plants with desirable features are often cloned, resulting in more plants with the same characteristics. (shalom-education.com)
  • In 1998 researchers sponsored by Geron announced the isolation and culture of human embryonic stem cells in the laboratory for the first time. (stanete.com)
  • Agreeing with the premise of an earlier article in the same journal, he agrees that we "must not let our debate get completely derailed by vested interests, whether politically or economically motivated", and that the failure to find global agreement on human cloning at the U.N. could result in "reproductive" human cloning [and all the abuses of women that would entail]. (lifeissues.net)
  • The report concluded: "This study shows the feasibility of generating human ES [embryonic stem] cells from a somatic cell isolated from a living person. (wikipedia.org)
  • The idea is to eventually make tailored stem cells, cloned from patients, for medical study and perhaps to provide transplants for treating a range of conditions from juvenile diabetes to damaged spinal cords [an IND for the latter may be submitted by Geron. (blogspot.com)
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  • The study further notes: "Analysis of B and T cell receptor repertoires revealed that while the majority of clonal B and T cells in COVID-19 patients were effector cells, in vaccine recipients clonally expanded cells were primarily circulating memory cells. (fearunmasked.com)
  • Michael left shortly after and joined Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) in 1998 as President and Chief Scientific Officer. (stanete.com)
  • After emptying an egg of its nuclues, they transfer the nucleus of the cumulus cell into it. (wikipedia.org)
  • How Big Pharma deliberately engineered the spike glycoprotein to reprogram our immune cells, our T-Cells, and white blood cells - tricking our body into thinking it's not a threat and allowing it to wreak havoc. (brighteonuniversity.com)
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  • He followed this up with what appeared to be the first proof of the promise of so-called therapeutic cloning -- the creation of 11 separate batches or lines of stem cells taken from actual patients. (blogspot.com)
  • When Howe and McGuigan discovered that Howe was not eligible for any of their US clinical trials, they facilitated Howe's receiving an unproven stem cell therapy through one of Stemedica's partners in Mexico, Novastem, which uses Stemedica stem cell products to treat patients in its clinic, Clínica Santa Clarita. (respectfulinsolence.com)
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  • Increased interferon signaling likely contributed to the observed dramatic upregulation of cytotoxic genes in the peripheral T cells and innate-like lymphocytes in patients but not in immunized subjects. (fearunmasked.com)
  • So the company began to consider human embryonic stem cell based therapy as a more practical and safer approach. (stanete.com)
  • Particularly outrageous was the Regenerative Medicine Group , which claimed to offer a stem cell " therapy for autism that WORKS . (respectfulinsolence.com)
  • So theoretically activating the enzyme in normal cells could extend cellular lifespan, which could be use to treat multiple age-related diseases. (stanete.com)
  • Multi electrode arrays (MEAs) are increasingly used to detect external field potentials in electrically active cells. (bvsalud.org)