Archive for January, 2010

In our previous post we approached the idea that stem cells can be created from differentiated cells. It was acknowledged that now we simply do not know how to do this. Making this transition involves taking advantage of a simple idea. This post takes this idea a step further .
 
The central principle here is that [...]

This is a patient seen with Pelvic pain and findings of bilateral adnexal tenderness (of the fallopian tubes and ovaries), compatible with a pelvic infection. She is treated with antibiotics with instruction to return in two weeks. She returns feeling better but not healed. We discuss the previous conversation that we had about her pelvic [...]

In our view of the state of things, we see stem cells as being the undifferentiated cell. Most of us are familiar with the concept of cells, which we used to think of as the smallest unit of biological life. In the human body an undifferentiated cell simply means that the cell does not have [...]