Most of you know I am a technocrat. The official definition is that a technocracy is a government where experts and professionals are appointed to administer governmental functions. If we really ever expected to “drain the swamp”, that’s what we’d really need.
Continue reading The limits of morality?
When I travel, I add a local paper to my daily reading. Yes, that does mean I read 5 newspapers on those days. (OK. Since the NY Times is one of my daily reads, I don’t generally pick up another local paper when in the New York metropolitan region.)
Continue reading Not just wine is growing in Napa
I’ve written how Impossible Foods has perfected a synthetic “blood”, a heme protein, so that their veggie hamburger will please the palate of almost any meat lover. (Come on, you know those vegetarian hamburgers can’t match the taste of “the real thing”.)
Continue reading Animal or Vegetable?
Yesterday, we spoke about the proliferation of stem cell therapy (sic) centers in America. After all, these clinics are not regulated by the Feds, which leaves the business open to every single snake oil salesman and saleswomen. Most of these slimeballs promise to extract vital stem cells from the fat in our bodies (I don’t know about you, but I have a lot of those to donate) to create medical miracles.
Continue reading R-r-regulation? Hmm. Not really.
From the second the first dialyzer was invented by Abel, Rowntree, and Turner 115 years ago, it should have been clear that dialysis- which cleans the blood of most of the toxins that accumulate when the subject has kidney failure, was, at best, incomplete.
Continue reading 2nd Best Ain’t Good Enough
Not quite the culmination- but the week of “Spring Ahead” is a major one for those who’ve been working since “Fall Back”.
Yes, Japan allows stem cell research- the research that can’t be effected by most Americans. The US government has forbidden one scintilla of such research to be performed, if the institution receives even one penny of US funding. Which means that American scientists cannot use their ingenuity to produce the artificial organs that would result if they could. But, the research about which I am reporting today is actually legal under US law.
Continue reading Stem Cells to the Rescue?
Ah, yes, you knew this would happen. At least if you truly thought about it.
Japanese scientists have cloned stem cells to produce viable kidneys. Ok, in rats. But still! This is the sort of research that our country feels is in contravention to some religious morality. (Why not just let those folks NOT perform the research themselves. We have many others who want to help our sick citizens!)
Continue reading Kidney Clone Ahead!!!!!!
I have written before about the hope that stem cells offer to sufferers from Parkinson’s disease. Here’s yet another installment.
Continue reading Another step in the stem cell saga for Parkinson’s
I am now of the age when hearing thst a friend or acquaintance succumbed to a heart attack is not that geeat a shock. That loss of oxygen flow to the heart- from a blood clot, an occlusion, or other trauma- is not always fatal, thank G0d. But, when the heart heals, there is scar tissue- and the heart is ‘never as good as new’. But, that may be about to change. Two different groups are trying similar techniques. A third is using a slight different concept.
Continue reading Heart Attack Hope?
