Showing posts with label stem cells. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stem cells. Show all posts

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Weekend Headlines: June 5-6, 2010

* Costa Rica: The government has forced the shutdown of the country’s largest stem cell treatment clinic after claiming that such therapy doesn’t work.

* U.S.: According to a Pew Research Center report mixed marriages in the U.S. have reached an all-time high partly due to immigration from Latin America.

* Brazil: After being separated for nearly three years a gay Brazilian man reunited with his husband in Massachusetts.

* Panama: Judicial authorities have requested that France extradite ex-ruler Manuel Noriega to Panama where he awaits trial.

Image – The Guardian
Online Sources – AFP, AP, New York Times, MSNBC

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Today’s Video: Hope via stem cells

It was revealed on Wednesday that Spanish doctors successfully performed the transplant of human windpipe with the use of stem cells.

The operation, performed in June, was the first of its kind and was done on a 30-year-old woman originally from Colombia. Though the controversy around stem cell research centers on embryonic cells, doctors took adult stem cells from the bone marrow of the patient.

Al Jazeera English has more information on the pioneering medical procedure:


Sources- Catholic Online, BBC News, NPR, YouTube