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 […]