The Utah study (Administered mesenchymal stem cells protect against ischemic acute renal failure through differentiation-independent mechanisms) “provides the first clear evidence that therapy with MSC (mesenchymal stem cells) affords significant renoprotection (kidney protection) in rats with ischemic/reperfusion (I/R) ARF (Acute kidney failure). Animals infused with MSC either immediately or 24 hours after reperfusion had significantly better renal function, lower renal injury and cell-death scores, and higher cell division indices than vehicle-treated control animals,” the paper stated.

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Stephen Green of VodkaPundit has posted an excellent article debunking the ethical issues surrounding stem cell research and how the efforts of conservatives and Bush sabotaging stem cell research is relegating the country to back-benches.
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Carl Hagan is a paraplegic (complete paralysis of the lower half of the body including both legs, usually caused by damage to the spinal cord) since 2001. Confinement to a wheelchair couldn’t curb his spirits. Rather it has inspired him to press forward this week on a mission that few of us would dare. Hagan intends to roll himself in a manually-powered wheelchair from Ocala to the West Coast to raise awareness and money for stem cell research.

“I want people to know the only thing I can’t do is walk,” he said. “It’s important I do it, important to everyone in my situation.”
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The center in Pisa is being promoted by the College of Medicine at the University of Pisa and will oversee the creation of a department for the clinical use of stem cells and one for research in biotechnology.

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Politicians are taking significant decisions (which affect life and death of millions of people in US and worldwide) about fetal welfare which is based on highly controversial claims over whether or not they feel pain.

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According to a recent article published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, an allogeneic stem cell transplant appears effective in the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphomas that have stopped responding to standard therapies.

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