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- New cell sources offer hope for wider clinical use. // Urology Times;Mar2008, Vol. 36 Issue 3, p1
An interview with physician Anthony Atala is presented. When asked about the future use of stem cells, he explains that there are only three stem cell types that are pluripotent, where one cell has the ability to go into any of the three germ layers from which all tissues and organs are derived....
- GPs back use of embryo stem cells for research. // GP: General Practitioner;2/13/2009, p3
The article reports on the outcomes of a survey which examines the opinion of general practitioners (GPs) on the use of embryo stem cells for scientific research in Great Britain. The survey shows that most GPs support the use of stem cells from embryos in scientific research. Out of 480...
- On subjects, objects and patients. Bloch, Ralph // CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal;5/23/2006, Vol. 174 Issue 11, p1603
Presents an article relating the author's thought about death from cancer. Reflection on the life of a physician and a friend who died from cancer; Cause for the failure of physicians to collaborate effectively with terminal patients; Opinion on stem cell research.
- HEALTH BEAT. // USA Today Magazine;Oct2002, Vol. 131 Issue 2689, p2
Presents several health-related updates in the U.S., as of October 2002. Details of the shortage of physicians in the country; Cost of Medicare drug benefits; Discussion on the increasing costs of energy rates; Information on laboratory-grown human neural stem cells.
- Your letters, calls and emails... Banham, Stephen; Keith, Alan; Sidhu, Kamail; Glendinning, Sarah // GP: General Practitioner;5/15/2009, p22
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- Double Duty. // National Geographic;Jul2005, Vol. 208 Issue 1, preceding p2
Focuses on photographer Max Aguilera-Hellweg and how an assignment photographing a spinal cord operation inspired him to enter the medical field. How he began studying medicine; What he learned about stem cells in preparing photos for the cover story.
- 'Spark of life' makes human eggs divide without sperm. Coghlan, Andy // New Scientist;12/4/2004, Vol. 184 Issue 2476, p17
The article reports that embryos created by the procedure do not contain any paternal chromosomes just two sets of chromosomes from the mother and so cannot develop into babies. Blastocysts should in theory yield stem cells, but because they are parthenogenetic produced from the egg only they...
- New Bone Grown Using Adult Stem Cells. // National Right to Life News;Oct2009, Vol. 36 Issue 10, p7
The article presents information on a study conducted by physicians in Cincinnati on the replacement of human bones with bones grown from adult stem cells. The physicians used Brad Guilkey, a boy with Treacher Collins syndrome, as the study subject. The process of injecting stem cells into a...
- Laser spots cancer before it grows. Siegfried, Tom // New Scientist;4/2/2005, Vol. 186 Issue 2493, p14
The article reports that nano-sized laser beams have been used to distinguish a single cancerous cell from a normal one. Doctors could one day use the technique to diagnose cancer during an office visit. Long before symptoms of disease appear, cancerous human cells show telltale changes in their...
