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 BBC World Service interview 19th Jan 2001
Medical
researcher claims to have discovered new method for
growing stem cells.
"A British medical researcher is claiming to have
made a discovery which could end the debate over whether
human embryos should be grown to make spare body
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Tristem, a biotechnology company with roots in Britain, Ireland and Saudi Arabia, yesterday unveiled a new technique for turning back the biological clock, by turning blood cells into immature stem cells. Ilham Abuljayadel, Tristem's chief scientist, describing the "retrodifferentiation" technology to a stem cells conference in London, said it turns mature blood cells into juvenile cells with the potential to differentiate into specialised tissues such as heart or skin....
NATIONAL NEWS:
Turning back the biological clock INSIDE: SCIENCE
AND MEDICINE
Financial Times; Jun 15, 2001
By CLIVE COOKSON
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TriStem unveils startling new technology
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| The TriStem Group, a Dublin-based biotechnology company has unveiled a new technology which could revolutionise the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases. The company has announced that it has devised a way of turning both normal and abnormal blood cells into healthy stem cells - ‘physiological blank cheques’ which can be used to fight disease.
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Breakthrough
in cancer fight
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Blood
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Stem
Cell Discovery Reverses Time
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A RESEARCHER based in Britain claims to have achieved the biological equivalent of reversing time. She says that she has perfected a method of creating stem cells from adult cells, bypassing the ethical dilemma of “therapeutic cloning” which recently divided the House of Commons.
Although Parliament voted in favour of research into
therapeutic cloning, many people remain uneasy about
creating embryos solely for use as a source of spare
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Human Fertilisation and Embryology
Regs. 2000
The Bishop of Oxford Speaks in the House of Lords
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My Lords, I wish to consider two issues before us today: first, the moral status of the pre-implantation embryo; and, secondly, the question as to whether research on stem cells derived from the pre-implantation embryo is the only way of understanding the process of cell development or whether it would be possible to carry out that research on adult
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