Infopirate.org

Most families bank their baby's cord blood stem cells with Cord Blood Registry for peace of mind, knowing that these stem cells can be lifesaving to their baby and other family members. By saving your baby's cord blood with CBR, you secure an invaluable medical resource that can help you protect your baby:

* Enable your child to benefit from breakthrough uses.

This simple website from the University of Utah gives a good beginner's guide to stem cells, what they are, what they do, where they come from and how they are used.

Includes:
What is a stem cell?
What are the different types of stem cells?
Stem cell therapies.
Stem cell research.
Issues on stem cell research.

Although a university website, this educational section is aimed at school te

It's come time to lie about science again - this time about the reality of embryonic stem cell pluripotency - and some of the old lies are coming back out of the storage shed. For instance, I've heard about how adult stem cells have cured or treated 72 diseases. Oh and embryonic stem cells, they've cured none.

Condition

Primary - Coronary Artery Disease
Secondary - Type I Diabetes, degenerative eye disorder

Reason for Coming for Treatment

Kevin's primary reason for seeking out stem cell therapy was his heart's rapidly decreasing ejection fraction following a heart attack and a diagnosis of coronary artery disease with several blockages.

As someone who works with stem cells this blogger finds Obama's lifting of federally funded embryonic stem cell research largely an empty, symbolic act, but one that needed to be done anyway.