Stem cell research is a sticky subject, in more ways than one...
Moral quagmire that it is, the facts are indisputable: real life-saving medical breakthroughs have come, and continue to come, from work on and with stem cells. In my opinion, if our politicians are serious about reversing our state's "brain drain" and ballyhooing Ohio's "Third Frontier" initiatives, they'd take a stand supporting stem cell research and the doctors and scientists who do it; otherwise, they better start coming up with excuses for more brain drain as (even more) docs leave for more progressive places.
I nod to Gov. Taft, who in June vetoed a line in the state budget that would have eliminated funding for stem cell research here. Democrats were relieved, but the debate is far from over... and this small act, the veto, is hardly a real gesture of support for the research that will prove so important to us (yes, we'll reap the benefits of stem-cell research breakthroughs in our lifetimes) and to our kids. Folks, don't be shy about letting your elected officials know how you feel about this important issue. The politicos need to know it's important to you-- surely they already realize how beneficial it could be to our state's long term financial health...
Meanwhile, in the middle of the state, researchers are busy, and thank goodness, not in politics. At Ohio State, Shang-Tian Yang, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Anli Ouyang, a doctoral student in chemical and biomolecular engineering, have developed a method for mass-producing embryonic stem cells that will help meet the projected high market demand for stem cells and reduce stem cell production costs by at least 80 percent. Yang and Ouyang grew mouse embryonic stem cells in a bioreactor and increased cell growth anywhere from 10- to 100-fold higher than the number of stem cells produced by conventional laboratory methods. READ MORE at http://www.osu.edu/researchnews/archive/...
How to Protect Your Teenager's Brain from Dementia
Active high school students, especially those with high IQs, are less likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer's disease, according to a just-released study by the University Memory and Aging Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland. So send your kids off to sports programs (with books under their arms)-and find out more about the study at http://casemed.case.edu/public_affairs/m...
Ohio is a Top 10 Tech Spot?
For the second year in a row, Small Times magazine has named Ohio one of the nation's top 10 nanotechnology "hot spots." (Small Times covers the business of nanotechnology.) Also, as I wrote last spring, Popular Science magazine ranked Columbus 7th among top tech cities in America. Read more of the good news, including highlights of Ohio State University's recent $12.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create a Nanotech Science and Engineering Center, at http://www.osu.edu/news/lvl2_news_story....
Moral quagmire that it is, the facts are indisputable: real life-saving medical breakthroughs have come, and continue to come, from work on and with stem cells. In my opinion, if our politicians are serious about reversing our state's "brain drain" and ballyhooing Ohio's "Third Frontier" initiatives, they'd take a stand supporting stem cell research and the doctors and scientists who do it; otherwise, they better start coming up with excuses for more brain drain as (even more) docs leave for more progressive places.
I nod to Gov. Taft, who in June vetoed a line in the state budget that would have eliminated funding for stem cell research here. Democrats were relieved, but the debate is far from over... and this small act, the veto, is hardly a real gesture of support for the research that will prove so important to us (yes, we'll reap the benefits of stem-cell research breakthroughs in our lifetimes) and to our kids. Folks, don't be shy about letting your elected officials know how you feel about this important issue. The politicos need to know it's important to you-- surely they already realize how beneficial it could be to our state's long term financial health...
Meanwhile, in the middle of the state, researchers are busy, and thank goodness, not in politics. At Ohio State, Shang-Tian Yang, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and Anli Ouyang, a doctoral student in chemical and biomolecular engineering, have developed a method for mass-producing embryonic stem cells that will help meet the projected high market demand for stem cells and reduce stem cell production costs by at least 80 percent. Yang and Ouyang grew mouse embryonic stem cells in a bioreactor and increased cell growth anywhere from 10- to 100-fold higher than the number of stem cells produced by conventional laboratory methods. READ MORE at http://www.osu.edu/researchnews/archive/...
How to Protect Your Teenager's Brain from Dementia
Active high school students, especially those with high IQs, are less likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer's disease, according to a just-released study by the University Memory and Aging Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland. So send your kids off to sports programs (with books under their arms)-and find out more about the study at http://casemed.case.edu/public_affairs/m...
Ohio is a Top 10 Tech Spot?
For the second year in a row, Small Times magazine has named Ohio one of the nation's top 10 nanotechnology "hot spots." (Small Times covers the business of nanotechnology.) Also, as I wrote last spring, Popular Science magazine ranked Columbus 7th among top tech cities in America. Read more of the good news, including highlights of Ohio State University's recent $12.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create a Nanotech Science and Engineering Center, at http://www.osu.edu/news/lvl2_news_story....
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