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MUMBAI, October 20, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Indian stem cell researchers are frustrated by their inability to create stem cell lines from frozen IVF embryos and are calling for relaxation of the rules to allow them to create embryonic humans explicitly for research. More researchers who try to obtain stem cells from frozen embryos are complaining that the procedure of thawing so damages the embryo that no cells can be obtained. “Some embryos get destroyed during thawing. Some don’t make it to the blastocyst stage. And some don’t produce stem cells,” said fertility specialist Deepa Bhartiya.“This restriction of using only frozen...

The mainstream media is ignoring promising news about adult stem cell researchMEDIA BIAS is alive and well and busily promoting the brave new world. I personally experienced the phenomenon recently when I participated in an educational symposium in Frankfort, Kentucky (along with Drs. David Prentice and John Hubert). Our purpose was to provide empirical and moral support for pending state legislation that would outlaw human cloning in Kentucky. (Similar laws have already passed in Michigan, Iowa, North Dakota, and Arkansas.) We spoke about regenerative medicine (using cellular treatments to repair injured or damaged organs), the science of human cloning (how...

The July 4 issue of the scientific journal Nature reports that "Just five years ago...mammalian embryos were thought to spend their first few days as a featureless orb of cells. Only later, at about the time of implantation into the wall of the uterus, were cells thought to acquire distinct 'fates' determining their positions in the future body." Researchers tagged specific points on mammalian embryos (blastocysts) shortly after fertilization successfully demonstrating that they come to lie at predictable points in the embryo. "Rather than being a naive sphere, it seems that a newly fertilized egg has a defined top-bottom axis...