February 11, 2011
A team at the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine have continued in their development of a "skin gun" that sprays the patient's adult stem cells onto a burn, resulting in quicker, more effective healing.
Posted By: Family Research CouncilDecember 17, 2010
Scientists claim that a patient in Germany has been cured of both HIV and leukemia after receiving a bone marrow transplant that included stem cells from an HIV-resistant donor. Timothy Ray Brown, the 44-year-old year old patient, was first diagnosed with HIV in 1995, and diagnosed with leukemia...
Posted By: LifesitenewsDecember 10, 2010
This is a special request that will take just a minute of your time. Please sign the pro-life petition seeking to protect life from conception on the Life Institute website.
Posted By: Life InstituteDecember 10, 2010
The amazing and inspiring presentation by Dr. Colin McGuckin from this year's Viva La Vida conference is now available on our YouTube channel.
Posted By: Youth DefenceNovember 30, 2010
Doctors associated with the German umbilical cord blood bank Vita 34 claim that they have successfully cured a child's leukemia using an infusion of stem cells from umbilical cord blood.
Posted By: LifesitenewsNovember 20, 2010
In an important breakthrough, scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from adult human skin.
Posted By: Science DailyNovember 15, 2010
Dr. Colin McGuckin, who was the first to synthesize living and functioning human liver tissue from adult stem cells, was speaking at a conference held by the leading Irish pro-life group Youth Defence. His topic was the medical and ethical advantages of research using "somatic" cells (those...
Posted By: LifesitenewsOctober 24, 2010
Pope Benedict XVI has called for a worldwide "Vigil for All Nascent Human Life" on 27 November - in the same month that Youth Defence's exciting new pro-life billboard campaign will hit Irish cities nationwide.
Posted By: Youth DefenceOctober 15, 2010
The two leading scientists behind the lawsuit which has temporarily blocked Obama's push for federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research say they were motivated by ethical objections to the destruction of human embryos for medical research.
Posted By: Life InstituteOctober 2, 2010
A groundbreaking surgical technique has been used to rebuild the leg of a woman who suffered a bad break in a hit-and-run accident. Diane Stuttard from the U.K. had been told she would have to have her leg amputated after 11 operations failed to fix her bones.
Posted By: Youth Defence