A federal court decision has blocked a White House policy allowing more embryonic stem cell research, a change that research advocates say will postpone long-awaited breakthroughs.
The ruling by chief judge Royce Lamberth of Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, granted a temporary injunction rescinding a 2009 executive order by President Obama loosening constraints on the research, saying that the president had violated (more…)
A Massachusetts lab is banking stem cells from children’s freshly extracted teeth to provide a potential source of cell-regeneration therapies for ailments including type 1 diabetes.
Provia Laboratories of Lexington stresses that its Store-A-Tooth service is an investment in a still-developing technology, according to Diabetes Mine. Dental stem cells have not yet been used to treat diabetes — right now they are being used for bone (more…)
U.S. Chief District Court Judge Royce Lamberth in Washington ruled on August 23 that federal funding for embryonic stem–cell research was barred‚ according to a law prohibiting federal funds to be used for research in which an embryo is destroyed.
In his ruling‚ the judge rejected the Obama Administration’s argument that embryonic stem–cell research itself does not cause the destruction of embryos. Stem cells derived from embryos‚ (more…)
In the past decade‚ scientists have made significant advances in medical treatments with the use of adult stem cells.
Research has included treatments for type 1 diabetes and heart attacks and a possibility for avoiding limb amputation. Dr. Richard Burt of Northwestern University reported that some diabetes patients experienced a “rebooting” of their immune system‚ allowing them to go without insulin for several years. The strategy (more…)