How Will The 2012 Election Affect Scientific Progress And Leadership In America?

Mike Magee I’ve been following the policy and scientific issues related to stem cells pretty closely for over a decade. During my tenure as director of the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative, it was about pushing back inside a scientific company bending over backwards not to offend the Bush administration. On the research and discovery side, […]

Could Stem Cell Success Mean An End To Heart Transplants?

Mike Magee When Dr. Piero Anversa from New York Medical College and his colleague Dr. Donald Orlic from the National Institutes of Health announced in April 2001 that stem cells from bone marrow injected into the damaged hearts of mice had morphed into cardiac cells, implanted in the damaged tissue, and laid the seeds for […]

Embryonic Stem Cells

As important as ever Last November there was a great deal of excitement around the announcement that stem cell researchers had developed a method of deriving cutaneous stem cells from human skin without the use of embryos. Many wondered whether these "induced pluripotential stem cells" might finally resolve the Bush Administration’s embargo on federally funded […]

Stem Cell Funding Now

Parkinson’s patient sends a message to President Bush The debate over stem cell research funding and policies in the United States will heat up again as we enter the 2008 presidential campaign season. Where do you stand on this issue? Watch this video to hear an emotional statement by someone whose life could be affected by […]

New Discoveries, New Reasons to Hope

Cancer is scary — there’s no doubt about it. We all live in fear of it, and 1.4 million are diagnosed each year. Then there’s treatment, therapy, pain, waiting, and either death, recovery or relapse. As a result, patients and families often have a difficult time sustaining hope in the face of a cancer diagnosis. […]