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Although women get abortions for many reasons, the majority of women choosing abortion do so because they got pregnant when they didn’t want to be. It stands to reason that at the time of the abortion is a perfect time to help women start using highly effective contraceptives. One of the most effective methods, the [...]

The California stem cell agency has picked up additional media coverage this week, including a Q & A on Nature magazine’s web site in which CIRM’s new chairman stressed the need for better PR. Also appearing this morning was an editorial in the San Diego Union-Tribune and, earlier this week, an item in a political [...]

Johns Hopkins graduate students have invented a system to significantly boost the number of stem cells collected from a newborn’s umbilical cord and placenta. The prototype is still in the testing… This is a content summary only. Visit our website for full links, other content, and more! Thanks! Stem Cell Research

Reuters reports on the church-state tensions in South Korea ahead of next year’s presidential elections.  President Lee Myung-Bak is a devout Protestant and an elder at  Seoul’s Somang Church. However, many have been disturbed at his public display of religion, particularly a photo of him kneeling to pray at a national prayer breakfast last March. [...]

A few months ago, my partner and two friends of ours went to Niagara for the weekend. On a tour of one of the local wineries, someone asked about the workers. The tour guide, without a hint of remorse or even acknowledgement that there might be something wrong, spoke about the migrant workers, how little [...]

The Hong Kong Government has tabled the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2011 at the Legislative Council on June 15, 2011. The bill will criminalized online derivative works that use copyrighted material without authorization. Local info activists believe that the criminalization of re-creation would result in a chilling effect for online political satires and Kuso which are [...]

The US House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government will mark up the FY’12 appropriations bill [PDF] today to regulate District of Columbia funding.  One important choice-related issue is included in this legislation: the D.C. abortion ban prohibiting federal and local funds from being used to pay for abortions. As you all know, [...]

A new laboratory method allows the expansion of adult hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) using the SALL4 gene. The method produced a 10,000-fold increase in HSCs derived from normal human bone marrow…. This is a content summary only. Visit our website for full links, other content, and more! Thanks! Stem Cell Research

Like people with a big choice to make, stem cells have a process to “decide” whether to transform into a specific cell type or to stay flexible, a state that biologists call “pluripotency. New… This is a content summary only. Visit our website for full links, other content, and more! Thanks! Stem Cell Research

A method for producing a type of natural stem-cell grout that can be used to treat patients whose fractured bones fail to fully heal is being tested as part of a clinical trial by UC Davis… This is a content summary only. Visit our website for full links, other content, and more! Thanks! Stem Cell [...]