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Two separate research groups from Monash University and Melbourne lab of the Australian Stem Cell Centre submitted licence requests for creating cloned human embryos.  By working with Sydney IVF, the teams could create cloned human embryos using fertility treatment left over spare eggs.  The cloned embryos would be destroyed within seven days old and once stem cells were collected.  This could lead to a cure for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases, and type 1 diabetes in less than 10 years.  National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) will decide approval of the applications this week.  Tomas Stojanov, Sydney IVF research director, was confident that both applications would be approved.

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A brief yet beautiful 3D animation on introduction of stem cells, worth to have a look.

Another good presentation on “Everything You Wanted To Know About Stem Cells”, quite informative but I manage to watch only half of it as it is 51 minutes long!

I shall come back to this later.

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Came across this blog post and it grab my attention – a true story of a cancer survival, twice. For 2 more days, on 24^th April, it will be the cancer survival, Benjamin Rubenstein’s bone marrow’s 5 year old birthday, also his 5 years anniversary of cancer free life. Congratulate to Benjamin.

His wrote his cancer survival story but no publisher wants it. Thanks to blogger.com, he published it in blogspot, have a read when free.

I’ve Still Got Both My Nuts

• ch.1 The Golden Age
• ch.2 Teeter Totter of Life
• ch.3 Welcome to the Good Life
• ch.4 Welcome to the Cancer Life
• ch.5 Bombs Over September
• ch.6 Again
• ch.7 Fix Me

He life was saved by stem cells obtained from a little girl’s umbilical cord. One more true case of stem cell’s treatment saved life.

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Phyorg.com:

Demi-Lee Brennan was aged nine and seriously ill with liver failure when she received the transplant, doctors at a top Sydney children’s hospital told AFP.

Nine months later they discovered she had changed blood types and that her immune system had switched over to that of the donor after stem cells from the new liver migrated to her bone marrow.

She is now a healthy 15-year-old, Michael Stormon, a hepatologist treating her, told AFP. He said he had given several presentations on the case around the world and had heard of none like it.

Could it be another soul living inside her blood? LOL!

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