Three Texas universities are joining together to create ahome for environmental investigators, funding infrastructure needs with a $4.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health,funding the first-ever hub for researchers looking for connections between genetic traits and environmental health factors. UH, Texas A&M University and Baylor College of Medicine are teaming up to create thecenter, named by the National Institutes of Health as the newest national Center of Excellence in Environmental Health Science. It will be led by research team leader Cheryl Lyn Walker, director of the Texas A&M Health Science Center Institute of Biosciences and Technology andCollege ofVeterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. In addition to the $4.4 million NIH grant, researchers will be using their own existing grants and seeking additional grants to do their work, said Jeannie Kever, senior media relations specialist at UH. As reported by the Eagle, this center is a cross-institutional initiative to promote integrated environmental health research and translate research advances into practices that can improve human health. The grant will pay for the centers infrastructure needs and provide $250,000 in seed grants through a pilot program, officials said in a press release. This is a game-changer, Walker said in a press release. … Continue reading →

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Stem Cell Therapy on Radyo Klinika Dr. Edwin Bien explains stem cell therapy on Itanong Mo Kay Doc, a segment on Radyo Klinika at Dwiz 882 AM. Sponsored by Geriamin, multivitamins and minerals... By: maroumedia … Continue reading →

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And now there are three: in the wake of announcements from laboratories in Oregon and California that they had created human embryos by cloning cells of living people, a lab in New York announced on Monday that it had done that and more. In addition to cloning the cells of a woman with diabetes, producing embryos and stem cells that are her perfect genetic matches, scientists got the stem cells to differentiate into cells able to secrete insulin. That raised hopes for realizing a long-held dream of stem cell research, namely, creating patient-specific replacement cells for people with diabetes, Parkinson's disease, heart failure and other devastating conditions. But it also suggested that what the Catholic Church and other right-to-life advocates have long warned of - scientists creating human embryos to order - could be imminent. The trio of successes "increases the likelihood that human embryos will be produced to generate therapy for a specific individual," said bioethicist Insoo Hyun of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland. And "the creation of more human embryos for scientific experiments is certain." The accelerating progress in embryonic stem cell research began last May. Scientists, led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of Oregon Health … Continue reading →

Regenerative medicine took a step forward on Monday with the announcement of the creation of the first disease-specific line of embryonic stem cells made with a patient's own DNA. These cells, which used DNA from a 32-year-old woman who had developed Type-1 diabetes at the age of ten, might herald the daystill far in the futurewhen scientists replace dysfunctional cells with healthy cells identical to the patient's own but grown in the lab. The work was led by Dieter Egli of the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) and was published Monday in Nature. "This is a really important step forward in our quest to develop healthy, patient-specific stem cells that can be used to replace cells that are diseased or dead," said Susan Solomon, chief executive officer of NYSCF, which she co-founded in 2005 partly to search for a cure for her son's diabetes. Stem cells could one day be used to treat not only diabetes but also other diseases, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Embryonic Stem Cells Morph Into Beta Cells In Type 1 diabetes, the body loses its ability to produce insulin when insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas become damaged. Ideally this problem could be corrected … Continue reading →

(CNN) For the first time, cloning technologies have been used to generate stem cells that are genetically matched to adult patients. Fear not: No legitimate scientist is in the business of cloning humans. But cloned embryos can be used as a source for stem cells that match a patient and can produce any cell type in that person. Researchers in two studies published this month have created human embryos for this purpose. Usually an embryo forms when sperm fertilizes egg; in this case, scientists put the nucleus of an adult skin cell inside an egg, and that reconstructed egg went through the initial stages of embryonic development. This is a dream that weve had for 15 years or so in the stem cell field, said John Gearhart, director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Gearhart first proposed this approach for patient-specific stem cell generation in the 1990s but was not involved in the recent studies. Stem cells have the potential to develop into any kind of tissue in the human body. From growing organs to treating diabetes, many future medical advances are hoped to arise from stem cells. Scientists wrote in the journal Cell Stem … Continue reading →