Next year will see the first person receive induced pluripotent stem cells – “rewound” adult cells that can grow into any tissue in the body
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2013 Smart Guide: Revolutionary human stem cell trial
If all goes to plan, 2013 should see the first human trial of “rewound” cells. These are produced by turning adult cells back to [...]
By JONATHAN D. ROCKOFF
Wall Street Journal
A Massachusetts biotechnology company said it expects as early as Friday to start the process for regulatory approval of what would be the first human trial involving stem cells created by reprogramming adult cells back to an embryonic-like state.
Researchers have been experimenting with treatments derived from stem cells, which can [...]
The 21st century is predicted to be the Century of Biology, a shift from the previous century dominated by physics. It seems fitting, then, to begin the century by turning the universe outside-in and unifying the foundations of science, not with imaginary strings that occupy equally imaginary unseen dimensions, but with a much simpler idea that is rife with so many shocking new perspectives that we are unlikely ever to see reality the same way again.
Stem-cell science is a fast-moving field. Just three years since a Japanese researcher first reprogrammed ordinary skin cells into stem cells without the use of embryos, scientists at a Massachusetts biotech company have repeated the feat, only this time with a new method that creates the first stem cells safe enough for human use. [...]
Growing new body parts, reversing paralysis, stretching the limits of the human life span: This trailblazing stem cell researcher believes it is all within our reach.
Discover Magazine
Advanced Cell Makes Stem Cells Without Harming Embryo
By Rob Waters
Jan. 10 (Bloomberg) — Advanced Cell Technology Inc.
scientists say they perfected a method to create new lines of
stem cells from a human embryo that doesn't harm the embryo and
may help overcome ethical concerns about the research.
[...]
Embryonic Stem Cells Created Without Harming Embryo, for Real This Time
By Brandon Keim Email 01.10.08 | 12:00 PM
Scientists hope a new method for producing embryonic stem cells without damaging embryos will finally place the cells in the labs of scientists searching for cures to now-untreatable diseases.
In a study published Thursday in Cell Stem Cell, [...]
Stem cells created without destroying embryos
By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 11, 2008
Scientists reported Thursday that for the first time they have made human embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos, a development that the government’s top stem cell official said would make the controversial research eligible for federal funding.
Story Landis, who chairs the [...]
Embryonic Stem Cells Without the Guilt?
Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:00 AM
Sharon Begley
When two groups of scientists independently reported that they had caused adult human cells to regress to a state that seemed indistinguishable from embryonic stem cells, it seemed the long and bitter battle over stem cells might be history. Rather than [...]
Scientists: Stem Cells Colonies Created Without Harming Embryos
By Rick Weiss, Washington Post
Thursday, January 10, 2008; 12:16 PM
Scientists in Massachusetts said today they had created several colonies of human embryonic stem cells without harming the embryos from which they were derived, the latest in a series of recent advances that could speed development of stem cell-based [...]
Embryo-Friendly Technique Produces Stem Cells
By Maggie Fox
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A company that devised a way to make embryonic stem cells using a technique it said does not harm human embryos reported on Thursday it has grown five batches of cells using this method and urged President George W. Bush to endorse it.
Massachusetts-based Advanced Cell Technology [...]
Scientists Create Stem-Cell Line
January 11, 2008, Wall Street Journal
By Gautam Naik
Scientists have created fresh human stem-cell lines without destroying the embryos from which they were derived, the latest in a series of experiments aimed at overcoming ethical concerns that have long hobbled such research.
Using the new technique, scientists extracted a single cell from an eight-cell [...]
Lanza’s team cloned the first human embryo. How American scientists made history by creating lifesaving embryos cells.
U.S. News & World Report
Robert Lanza, MD, and several other scientists recently participated in a discussion on “How can journals improve peer review of cloning papers?”
Read the whole post, as well as Robert Lanza’s opinion at Nature.com.
Source: Wired.com
“The answer to the universe is biology — it’s as simple as that,” says Dr. Robert Lanza, vice president of research and scientific development at Advanced Cell Technology.
Source: Msnbc.com
Robert Lanza, vice president for research and scientific development at Advanced Cell Technology, sets forth his view on the quest for a unified cosmic theory in “A New Theory of the Universe,” an essay appearing in The American Scholar.
Source: New York Times, By Nicholas Wade, Gardiner Harris and Carl Hulse
Biologists have developed a technique for establishing colonies of human embryonic stem cells from an early human embryo without destroying it. This method, if confirmed in other laboratories, would seem to remove the principal objection to the research.
Source: New York Times, By: Nicholas Wade
Scientists have devised two new techniques to derive embryonic stem cells in mice, one of which avoids the destruction of the embryo, a development that could have the potential to shift the grounds of the longstanding political debate about human stem cell research.
Source: Wired.com, By Wendy Goldman Rohm
DAY ONE 5:10 pm
It’s late on a Sunday afternoon and nearly dark inside the tiny, windowless lab; fluorescent light is said to be bad for human embryos. I’m sitting beside Robert Lanza, medical director at Advanced Cell Technology.
“…he’s the standard-bearer for stem cell research”
Lanza featured in the 2013 “TOP 50 Global Stem Cell Influencers.” It is the result of a global survey of the stem cell community, which yielded thousands of votes. The 50 personalities were picked based on their career achievements whether this was groundbreaking discovery and research, innovation, or lifetime dedication. Lanza was among the top four on the list, alongside James Thomson and Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka.
Robert Lanza featured on “Live to be 150, Can You Do It?”.
by ABC News
Growing new body parts, reversing paralysis, stretching the limits of the human life span: This trailblazing stem cell researcher believes it is all within our reach.
Discover Magazine
BIOCENTRISM
How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe
“Like “A Brief History of Time” it is indeed stimulating and brings biology into the whole. Any short statement does not do justice to such a scholarly work. Almost every society of mankind has explained the mystery of our surroundings and being by invoking a god or group of gods. Scientists work to acquire objective answers from the infinity of space or the inner machinery of the atom. Lanza proposes a biocentrist theory which ascribes the answer to the observer rather than the observed. The work is a scholarly consideration of science and philosophy that brings biology into the central role in unifying the whole. The book will appeal to an audience of many different disciplines because it is a new way of looking at the old problem of our existence. Most importantly, it makes you think.”
– Nobel Prize Winner E. Donnall Thomas
The Biocentric Universe Theory: Stem-cell guru Robert Lanza presents a radical new view of the universe and everything in it.
Discover Magazine
Lanza’s team cloned the first human embryo. How American scientists made history by creating lifesaving embryos cells.
U.S. News & World Report
Endangered Species Cloned
Newsweek
Robert Lanza Receives Award for Eye-Opening Work on Embryonic Stem Cells
Wired Magazine
Send in the Clones. Biologist Robert Lanza has a plan to help endangered species fight extinction.
People Magazine
Biologists have developed a technique for establishing colonies of human embryonic stem cells from an early human embryo without destroying it.
New York Times
Stem Cell Test Tried on Mice Saves Embryo. Technique Could Shift Debate on Humans.
New York Times
A New Theory of the Universe: Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by adding life to the equation.
The American Scholar
Seven Days of Creation. The inside story of a human cloning experiment.
Wired Magazine
“…his mentors described him [Lanza] as a “genius,” a “renegade” thinker, even likening him to Einstein.”
Most Prominent Psychologists
(Citations Per Scholar)
| Freud | 318 |
| Skinner | 140 |
| Piaget | 107 |
| Rogers | 100 |
| Pavlov | 85 |
SCIENCE 207; 543 (1980)
Lanza (with Skinner & Epstein)
SCIENCE 212; 695 (1981)
Lanza (with Skinner & Epstein)
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 38; 201 (1982)
Lanza (with Skinner & Starr)
Pigeon Talk − A triumph for bird brains
TIME Magazine
Pigeons’ ‘Conversation’ Triggers a Debate About Language
New York Times
Science Watch: ‘Self-Awareness’ in Animals
New York Times
Pigeons Punch Buttons. Talking or Training?
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