Stem Cells: December 2005 Archives
The US House on Saturday December 20th. passed 413-0 an amended version of a bill (HR 2520) that would authorize $79 million in federal funding for the collection and storage of umbilical cord blood.
Objective: To provide for the collection and maintenance of human cord blood stem cells for the treatment of patients and research.
A press release said:
The objective is 150,000 units, which would mean 90 percent of patients needing them would have a match.
Read via National Marrow Donor Program here.
White House PDF here. (PDF Format)
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Big news back in May about the south Korean scientist Hwang Woo Suk who claimed to have made stem cells tailored to match an individual.
Then big news again claiming that Hwang used the same picture for what was supposed to be different cells.
So now the race is on according to Gareth Cook from the Boston Globe.
And George Quentin Daley, MD, PhD, Associate Director, Stem Cell Program at Children's Hospital Boston is one of the main players.
Cloned stem cells are created by placing DNA from a patient into an egg cell that has had its nucleus removed. This is stimulated to grow and embryonic stem cells are harvested. Researchers can also get embryonic stem cells from frozen embryos, left over from fertility treatments, but cloned stem cells can be created with the DNA of patients who have diseases, giving scientists a new way to study how those diseases develop.
Read the article via Boston Globe here.
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Umbilical cord stem cell bank in the UK is marketing to grandparents.
A British-based company says grandparents looking for a gift with a twist are increasingly investing in stem cells for their grandchildren...The reason to store stem cells is future applications for stem cells. You only get one chance to get these cells in a non-invasive way. It's like a healthcare insurance policy.
Read the article via CNN here.
Back in May there was a lot of talk about a paper from a Korean scientist that claimed he was able to make stem cells tailored to match an individual for the first time...The paper was published in the journal Science.
"The resultant cells were a perfect match for the individual and could mean treatments for diseases like diabetes without problems of rejection", a BBC News article said.
From the BBC:
Now, the Korean scientist is retracting his paper.
Scientist of landmark paper on stem cells urges retraction
Two colleagues said data were misleading
By Gareth Cook
'After analyzing the data, our team concluded that the results . . . could not be trusted," Hwang wrote in a note delivered to Science. The note was read to journalists at a press conference yesterday.
Read the article via Boston Globe here.
