Stem Cell Therapy vs. Gene Therapy: What’s the Difference?
Medicine has made astonishing leaps in just the last few decades. Since the launch of the Human Genome Project in 1990, we’ve developed an even greater understanding of everything from viruses and cancer to forensics More...
Medical Startups To Watch In 2019
Medical startups are challenged with finding solutions to some of today’s biggest killers. For example, 1 in 3 Americans die every year due to cardiovascular disease alone. However, with advancements being made More...
Women in STEM: Closing an Age Old Gap
Traditionally, women are not encouraged to pursue any science-related career paths. Since their childhoods, they are directed towards more unrelated educational choices. However, recently, women started to consider More...
Human embryology, abortion and a look at the science
Back in April, more than 1 million people globally participated in the March for Science. The mission for the March for Science stated: We unite as a diverse, nonpartisan group to call for science that upholds More...
Most Americans approve of gay relations, babies born outside of marriage, birth control, divorce and gambling
The new Gallup poll on behaviors viewed as “morally acceptable” show a dramatic shift in some categories, such as same-sex relationships and the approval of out-of-wedlock births. Gambling, birth control More...
Black market stem cell ring leaders found guilty
The City Court of Budapest has found eight people guilty of illegally harvesting embryonic stem cells and tissue from aborted babies and using them for profit in cosmetic procedures. In reaching its conclusion against More...
3 Medical Advancements of the Past Decade
Technology is always advancing. One of the fastest advancing fields in the world is medical technology. From antibiotic-resistant infections to deadly illnesses like ebola, the health threats facing the world are More...
Stem Cell Conversion Heralds New Treatment for Blood Disorders
Scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have demonstrated for the first time the ability to differentiate human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into various types of blood cells. The new conversion More...
Florida Ortho announces Stem Cell Therapy
PRESS RELEASE: Florida Orthopaedic Institute announces developments in the use of stem cell therapy. Spine and sports physicians, Dr. Steven Barna and Dr. Grant G. Garlick, have participated in stem cell therapy More...
3D printer generates viable human stem cells
Imagine if you could take living cells, load them into a printer, and squirt out a 3D tissue that could develop into a kidney or a heart. Scientists are one step closer to that reality, now that they have developed More...
Yokohama City University researchers create liver from stem cells
The team of Japanese scientists transplanted stem cells into a mouse where it grew into a small, but working, human liver, raising hopes for the manufacture of artificial organs for those in need of transplants. Photo/US More...
