September 2008
Embryo Donation and Adoption Awareness Campaign
Dear Fertility Professional;
Our intent is to provide your clinic with on-going, useful information as you continue to positively impact the lives of infertile couples through ART.
Welcome to the fourth edition of the Embryo Adoption Awareness Center newsletter. We hope you will become a regular reader. If you have missed previous editions, you can view them at www.EmbryoAdoption.org. The content of these newsletters is designed to assist Fertility Clinics in their efforts to manage/create/refer embryo donation programs and to improve patient understanding of potential dispositions for their frozen embryos. |
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Cells Change Identity in Promising Breakthrough
By MALCOLM RITTER - Aug 27, 2008
NEW YORK (AP)
Talk about an extreme makeover; scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases.
The cell identity switch turned ordinary pancreas cells into the rarer type that churns out insulin, essential for preventing diabetes. But its implications go beyond diabetes to a host of possibilities, scientists said.
It's the scond advance in about a year that suggests that someday doctors might be able to use a patient's own cells to treat disease or injury without turning to stem cells taken from embryos. The work is "a major leap" in reprogramming cells from one kind to another, said one expert not involved in the research, John Gearhart of the University of Pennsylvania.
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