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Two men unlucky enough to get both HIV and cancer have been seemingly cleared of the virus, raising hope that science may yet find a way to cure for the infection that causes AIDS, 30 years into the epidemic ( Read more... )

No, this isn’t from The Onion. It’s a REAL bill that has been introduced by Republicans in the Oklahoma Senate. Introduced by Republican Ralph Shortey, Senate bill 1418 makes it illegal to make or sell food or other products that contain human fetuses, including in research and development. Republicans introduced the bill after a Christian Right ( Read more... )

The Vatican’s Enduring Effort to Steer Scientific Research Toward Its Moral WorldviewWell, OK, truth be told, I did not actually see a crypt during my visit to the Vatican last week. I did get to eat dinner in the Casina of Pope Pius IV, a wonderful home finished in 1562 that sits inside a gorgeous garden inside the Vatican that now houses the ( Read more... )

Toledo Catholic Bishop Leonard Blair has banned parishes and parochial schools from raising funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, citing concerns that the global anti-cancer giant may someday fund embryonic stem-cell research.Mary Westphal, executive director of the Northwest Ohio Affiliate Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and board chairman Angie ( Read more... )

Surgeons carry out first synthetic windpipe transplant
By Michelle Roberts
Health reporter, BBC News, in StockholmSurgeons in Sweden have carried out the world's first synthetic organ transplant ( Read more... )

Who wants to live forever? Scientist sees aging cured
By Health and Science Correspondent Kate Kelland
LONDON | Mon Jul 4, 2011 2:39pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) - If Aubrey de Grey's predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first person to live for 1,000 years could be less than 20 ( Read more... )

ATLANTA - It sounds like science fiction. Doctors are using fluid taken from the womb to try to grow body parts. Amniotic stems cells collected during routine prenatal testing could one day be a source for replacement organs.

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Doctors who carried out a stem cell transplant on an HIV-infected man with leukaemia in 2007 say they now believe the man to have been cured of HIV infection as a result of the treatment, which introduced stem cells which happened to be resistant to HIV infection ( Read more... )

Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell has previously sounded the alarm against cloning and stem-cell research -- and what she's described as the current terror of human-mouse hybridsWe previously noted that O'Donnell had attacked her primary opponent, Congressman Mike Castle, based on his support for stem-cell research. But it ( Read more... )