Stem Cell21 Nov 2005 01:44 am
Dog Clones May Help Treat Human Diseases
Scientists hope Dog clones will help them understand and treat a range of serious human diseases.
The dog has characteristics similar to human beings, some of their diseases are almost the same as human diseases. So dog clones could be very valuable in finding technologies useful for curing human diseases.The overall objective of this programme is to learn about the root causes of diseases, scientists also believe that it is possible if they can responsibly develop the ability to derive stem cells from cloned dog embryos, then our very best friends may turn out to be the first beneficiaries of stem cell medicine.
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December 5th, 2005 at 7:33 am
[...] A new way to inhibit prostrate cancel cells have been discovered by Norman Maitland, professor of molecular biology at the Yorkshire Cancer Research Unit (YCR) at the University of York, and his colleague Dr Anne Collins, which could prevent recurrence of the disease. On the other part, Scientists hope dog clones will help them understand and treat a range of serious human diseases. Another good news that the first British attempt to treat paralysed spinal cord injury patients with their own nasal stem cells was announced by Prof Geoffrey Raisman, the director of the Spinal Repair Unit at University College London. Again, Stem Cell treatment will soon be tested on eight residents of Tatarstan, a Russian republic on the Volga River for “liver and blood vessel problems”. [...]