{"id":3708,"date":"2009-03-29T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3708"},"modified":"2025-09-26T02:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:55:42","slug":"another-stem-cell-breakthrough-that-doesnt-require-dissecting-living-human-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3708","title":{"rendered":"Another stem cell breakthrough that doesn&#8217;t require dissecting living human embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/features\/lifestyle\/health\/chi-ap-wi-stemcells-breakth,0,6343727.story\"><font color=\"#800080\">UW-Madison reports another stem cell breakthrough &#8212; chicagotribune.com<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p>&quot;I think we&#39;re getting to a position where we can start to think about using these cells therapeutically,&quot; Duncan said.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Trounson, president of the <a class=\"taxInlineTagLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.typepad.com\/topic\/us\/california-PLGEO100100100000000.topic\" id=\"PLGEO100100100000000\" title=\"California\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">California<\/font><\/a> Institute of Regenerative Medicine, predicted the new method &quot;will be recognized as another important step forward on reprogramming cells.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Cell reprogramming has proved one of the most dynamic areas of biology in recent years as a growing number of researchers pursue alternatives to using human embryonic stem cells.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s incredible that when President Obama authorized the use of taxpayer money to fund the dissecting of living human embryos for their stem cells, he specifically reversed President Bush&#39;s use of federal money for the above&#0160;specific type of research,&#0160;which will certainly&#0160;prove much more valuable then embryo dissection for stem cells.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UW-Madison reports another stem cell breakthrough &#8212; chicagotribune.com &quot;I think we&#39;re getting to a position where we can start to think about using these cells therapeutically,&quot; Duncan said. Alan Trounson, president of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, predicted the new method &quot;will be recognized as another important step forward on reprogramming cells.&quot; Cell reprogramming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10245,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3708\/revisions\/10245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}