Latest News and Research about Stem Cells and Your Opinions on Stem Cell Research (Feel free to CONTRIBUTE by adding comments, and your own summaries)
I have to share this very cool website from the Exploratorium in San Francisco:
I have a BA in liberal arts with advanced degrees in writing and literature. I've long been interested in how science is represented in literature (including but not limited to science fiction) and other media, and in the ethical and social implications of scientific movements. I've written several academic articles on racial identity in science fiction and also done some work on Darwin in literature. 3 favorite novels relating science to past historical periods: The Voyage of The Narwhal, by Andrea Barrett; Angels and Insects, by A.S. Byatt (the first novella, Morpho Eugenia); and, less stikingly but still a great book, The Mannikin, by Joanna Scott.
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Hi Anne,
I wasn't sure if you saw this news article or whether you've blogged about it already. It's an interesting report on Dr. Tom Lane who's working with the handsome Dr. Hans Kierstead on nerve injury. The video clip they showed apparently documented the halt and reversal of paralysis in rats from a MS-like condition after injections with antibodies made with stem cells.
It sounds like a form of immuno-modulation as opposed to trauma repair but I thought it was interesting all the same.
Hi, thanks as usual. I did a little more research and it sounds like this is from a study done back in 2003, where the researchers created "antibodies that, when tested on rats, stopped the secondary nerve and spinal cord damage caused by the immune system response." The press release from Reeve-Irivine is available at http://today.uci.edu/news/release_detail.asp?key=1058.
Thank You so much-I hope to someday have new lungs generated from stem cells.
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