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make a habit of two things—
to help, or at least do no harm."

Human Pluripotent Stem Cells without Cloning or Destroying Embryos

A statement from DoNoHarm

Do we still need embryos and cloning?
Answering Common Claims about iPSCs

Have you, or a member of your immediate family, benefited from a clinical trial or treatment using adult or cord blood stem cells?

STEM CELL NEWS

Cells Are Converted in Promising Approach to Parkinson’s

(New York Times)

Bill Would Ban Sex-Selection Abortion, Cloning

(WCCO)

Dogs hold out stem-cell hopes

(Philadelphia Inquirer)

Canadians make stem-cell breakthrough

(Globe and Mail)

Stem cells extracted from pets help treat their ailments

(Chicago Tribune)

Cord blood: Banking on unproven hopes

(Los Angeles Times)

A stem cell bandage for your knee

(News-Medical)

Groundbreaking Paper Publishes Long Term Results of a Successful Phase I Clinical Trial Using Autologous Neural Stem Cells to Treat Parkinson’s Disease

(PR Newswire)

Report: Fetal stem cells trigger tumors in ill boy

(AP)

Stem Cells From Skin Cells Can Make Beating Heart Muscle Cells

(ScienceDaily)

Stem-cell transplant wipes out HIV

(Nature News)

Louisville test will try to regrow heart muscle

(Courier-Journal)

Treating MS Symptoms With Stem Cells

(CBS News)

Single factor converts adult stem cells into embryonic-like stem cells

(PhysOrg)

Oklahoma stem cell funding plan approved

(NewsOK)

Bone marrow cells can heal nerves in diabetes model

(PhysOrg)

MS stem-cell treatment ’success’

(BBC)

Stem cells used to reverse paralysis in animals

(PhysOrg)

Scott & White doctors pioneering adult stem cell research

(Waco Tribune)

Study uses bone marrow stem cells to regenerate skin

(PhysOrg)

Testes found to yield versatile stem cells

(San Francisco Chronicle)

Testes stem cell can change into other body tissues: study

(The Hindu)

Single virus used to convert adult cells to embryonic stem cell-like cells

(PhysOrg)

Single adult stem cell can self renew, repair tissue damage in live mammal

(PhysOrg)

Twin undergoes revolutionary brain injury treatment

(Stuff)

The miracle teabag: Stem cells in a pack help stroke victim to talk again

(Mail on Sunday)

British team lead stem cell heart surgery that could end need for transplants

(Telegraph)

Greens welcome ruling regulating stem cells use

(NEW EUROPE)

Researchers identify new source of insulin-producing cells

(PhysOrg)

Scientists achieve repair of injured heart muscle in lab tests of stem cells

(PhysOrg)

Turning Back the Cellular Clock: A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells?

(Scientific American)

Doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells

(Associated Press)

Researchers to use patient’s own stem cells to treat heart failure

(PhysOrg)

Stem cell “living bandage” heals knee injuries

(Times Online)

Heart Valves Fashioned From Stem Cells in Umbilical Cord Blood

(HealthDay)

‘You would barely know adult stem cells exist’

(Times Higher Education)

Building a New Prostate

(Science)

Stem Cell Breakthrough: Mass-Production Of ‘Embryonic’ Stem Cells From A Human Hair

(ScienceDaily)

A breakthrough, then a surge, in stem cell research

(PhysOrg)

Stem cell generation from ordinary cells now safe

(Reuters)

Adult Stem Cell Trial The First of Its Kind

(KCPW)

Stem cells from testicles an option to embryos

(AP)

Scientists Find Way to Regress Adult Cells to Embryonic State

(Washington Post)

Key Advance In Treating Spinal Cord Injuries

(Medical News Today)

Engineered stem cells carry promising ALS therapy

(PhysOrg)

Tooth stem cells give brain surgery hopes

(Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

New artificial heart pump assists and repairs defective hearts

(iTWire)

New Stem Cell Screening Tool Takes Adult Stem Cell Research To New Level

(Science Daily)

Hearing restoration may be possible with cochlear repair after transplant of human cord blood cells

(PhysOrg)

Japanese create stem cells from wisdom teeth

(PhysOrg)

Cord blood can be used to treat adult leukemia

(WRAL)

Unlikely hero doesn’t forget home

(Thanh Nien Daily)

Stem cell research provides near miracle treatments

(abc12.com)

Injured? Horsing Around With Stem Cells May Get You Back in the Saddle

(Wired)

Scientists create 20 disease-specific stem cell lines

(PhysOrg)

Research to Advance with New Human Stem Cell-Based Models

(MedPage Today)

Skin cells produce library of diseased stem cells

(Reuters)

Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Motor Neurons in ALS Patients

(HealthDay)

Fruit-fly study adds weight to theories about another type of adult stem cell

(PhysOrg)

Biotech bailing on stem cells?

(The Scientist)

Australia: Stem cell therapy plan for placentas

(Sydney Morning Herald)

Scientists identify cells for spinal-cord repair

(PhysOrg)

Cells from humans grow blood vessels in mice: study

(Reuters)

COMMENTARY AND INFO

Q & A: FDA Approves First Clinical Trial of Human Embryonic Stem Cells

(DoNoHarm)

Q & A: Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: Making Embryo Stem Cells Obsolete

(DoNoHarm)

The President Politicizes Stem-Cell Research

(Wall Street Journal)

Why Embryonic Stem Cells Are Obsolete

(US News)

Embryonic Stem Cells 2.0

(Nature)

What comes after iPS?

(Nature)

Stem cell chimeras

(Guardian Unlimited)

(News-Leader.com)

Embryonic stem cell research fails in many ways to reader

(Times Leader)

Stem Cell Logic

(MercatorNet)

Bank for cord blood needs more donors

(San Antonio Express-News)

“Embryo-Safe” Experiment Just another Stem Cell Fraud

(Townhall)

Adult cells are behind much of stem cell success so far

(JSOnline)

Stem Cell Politics: Divide and Conquer

(Human Events)

Interview with UK Researcher: Dr. Peter Hollands (LifeSite)

Part 1 - Cord Blood Real Potential for Cures, Not Embryonic Stem Cells

Part 2 - Embryonic Stem Cells Have Never Been Used to Treat Anyone and no Plans Exist to do so

Slippery slope: Inflated science claims equal $$

(MSNBC)

Commentary Archive . . .

NEW RESOURCES!

The Audacity of Hype: Wasting Taxpayer Lives and Wasting Taxpayer Dollars

Feb. 12, 2009

This Stem Cell policy lecture is available via webcast at www.frc.org.

FDA Approves First Clinical Trial with Human Embryonic Stem Cells: The Audacity of Hope

Decision shows, once again, that embryonic stem cells still lag far behind adult stem cells in treating patients - DoNoHarm

False Promises: Common Cloning Claims Refuted

Pro-cloning forces have been working hard to convince state governments to pass constitutional amendments enshrining a "right" to clone and to destroy embryos for research. Such amendments promise medical cures, limitless profits, and ethical benchmarks. But all of these promises are false. In this pamphlet we show how such claims fall apart, and how you can effectively oppose cloning amendments in your state.

Download Here - Family Research Council

USCCB Issues Statement on Embryonic Stem Cell Research

June 13, 2008

Stem cell research has captured the imagination of many in our society. Stem cells are relatively unspecialized cells that, when they divide, can replicate themselves and also produce a variety of more specialized cells.

Full Statement (PDF)

Patients First: Doctor and Patient on Current Adult Stem Cell Benefits

March 13, 2008

Capitol Hill briefing by patients and the doctor who treated them on the therapeutic benefits already being realized with adult stem cell treatments.
Patients' Stories

Adult versus Embryonic Stem Cells: Treatments

The journal Science has published a second Letter from DoNoHarm

An Encore Toast to Adult and Cord Blood Stem Cells

March 12, 2007

Hosted by Do No Harm

Patients' Stories / Program

Response to Zerhouni Claims

NIH Chief's shocking ignorance on stem cells - DoNoHarm

Senate Debate on the S.5 "The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act"

Senator Harkin: Call your Science Advisor

Phony "Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2007"

111 New Reasons to Reconsider the Alleged Need for Stem Cell Research that Destroys Human Embryos

Check the Score

Benefits of Stem Cells to Human Patients - DoNoHarm

Fact Sheets (PDF)

UPDATED JANUARY 2007

- Adult Stem Cell Plasticity

- Diabetes Treatments

- Heart Treatments

- Parkinson's Treatments

- Spinal Cord Injury Treatments

- Contaminated? Useless? The Truth About Stem Cells

U.S. Government Reports

Advancing Stem Cell Science without Destroying Human Life (Domestic Policy Council [PDF])

New Research On Adult Cells with Pluripotent Characteristics (President's Council on Bioethics)

New Advances in Non-Embryonic Stem Cell Research Since 2004 (President's Council on Bioethics)

Video: Stem Cell Research: Beyond Hype, Real Hope

Or click here to view online

The "Political Science" of Stem Cells

In the campaign to promote taxpayer funding of stem cell research that requires destroying human embryos, political hype often substitutes for the scientific facts. This series of one-page "lessons" responds to mere politics with science.
 

Click here for 12-part series.

Australia: New Website

Our sister organization DoNoHarm: Australians for Ethical Stem Cell Research
http://www.cloning.org.au

Insight

Adult Stem Cell Success Stories-2006

by Sarah Kleinfeld, William L. Saunders, and David Prentice

DoNoHarm Press Release:

Experts in Science, Medicine, Law and Ethics Declare That Missouri's Amendment 2 Endorses Human Cloning

PowerPoint Presentation:

"Stem Cells and Cloning" by David Prentice, PhD

Where's the Beef?

Hint: Not with Embryonic Stem Cells

Poll

Americans Continue to Oppose Funding Stem Cell Research that Destroys Human Embryos (USCCB)

Interview with Dr. David Prentice

Discusses the latest issues involving stem cells - CBN

DoNoHarm Background Piece

“Falling Behind” in Stem Cell Research?

Embryonic Stem Cell Research proponents misrepresent recent findings (PDF)

Support Alternatives to  Embryonic Research!

For information on products and foundations that raise money to support research that does not use embryonic stem cells click here

Journal Article

Current Science of Regenerative Medicine with Stem Cells

by David A. Prentice, Journal of Investigative Medicine Volume 54, Issue 01, 33-37, January 2006 (PDF)

REPORT: Embryonic stem cells accumulate risky mutations

Embryonic stem cells pose an unusual risk for genetic changes and tumor formation, with the risk increasing the longer the cells are grown, thus making their therapeutic use even more speculative and problematic - Do No Harm

Open Letter from 57 Scientists and Physicians on Sen. John Kerry's Claims About Embryonic Stem Cells

- View the Letter (PDF)
- View the Press Release (PDF)
- DoNoHarm Press Release (PDF)
- Cover letter sending
   scientists' letter to
   Congress (PDF)

Necessary Reading:

Consumer's Guide to the Brave New World
by Wesley J. Smith

How Adult Stem Cell Therapies Saved My Life: Medicine’s Best Kept Secret Can Save Your Life
by Bernard van Zyl

Check with Chip on Stem Cell Research
by Chip Maxwell

Imagining the Future
by Yuval Levin

More Information

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Founding Members

Kevin FitzGerald, SJ, PhD
Associate Professor of Oncology
David Lauler Professor for Catholic Health Care Ethics
Georgetown University

C. Christopher Hook, MD
Hematology/Medical Oncology,
The Mayo Clinic (Minnesota);
Chair, Mayo Clinical Ethics Council,
Mayo Reproductive Medicine Advisory Board and DNA Research Committee

Ralph Miech, MD, PhD
Associate Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology
Brown University School of Medicine

Robert D. Orr, MD
Director of Ethics, FAHC
University of Vermont College of Medicine

David A. Prentice, PhD
Senior Fellow for Life Sciences
Family Research Council

Frank E. Young, MD, PhD
Former Commissioner,
US Food and Drug Administration;
Dean Emeritus,
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry;
Director, Reformed Theological Seminary,
Metro Washington, DC

Joseph Zanga, MD, FAAP, FCP
Director, Office of Generalist Programs
National Health Service Corp Ambassador
Professor of Pediatrics
Brody School of Medicine at ECU