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Are We Part Of A Single Living Organism?
[mashshare] All life can be traced back to some single-celled organism in the early Archean sea. Today – nearly 4 billion years later – you and I find ourselves sharing the planet with elephants and whales, and over 8 million...
Have Aliens Left The Universe? Theory Predicts We’ll Follow
[mashshare] In Star Wars, the bars are bustling with all types of alien creatures. And then, of course, there’s Yoda and Chewbacca. Recently, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking stated that he too believes aliens exist: “To my mathematical brain, the numbers...
Are Dreams An Extension Of Physical Reality?
[mashshare] For over 10,000 years we’ve looked to the sky and gods for answers. We’ve sent spacecraft to Mars and beyond, and continue to build even bigger machines to find the “God” particle. We’re like Dorothy in “The Wizard of...
NPR’s Talk of the Nation Science Friday
Meet AIRM’s Chief Scientific Officer: Dr. Robert LanzaRegenerative medicine could revolutionize medicine, and provide therapies for the world’s most deadly conditions...
Front Page, Washington Post: Embryonic Stem Cells Appear to Restore Vision to Legally Blind Patient
For the first time, an experimental treatment made from human embryonic stem cells has shown evidence of helping someone, partially restoring sight to two people suffering from slowly progressing forms of blindness By Rob Stein and David Brown For the first time, an...
Reuters: First patients shown to improve with embryonic stem cells
The first-ever report of the medical use of stem cells taken from human embryos
TIME: Early Success in a Human Embryonic Stem Cell Trial to Treat Blindness
The first patients to receive human embryonic stem cell transplants say their lives have been transformed by the experimental procedure By Alice Park | @aliceparkny | January 24, 2012 | For the researchers at UCLA’s Jules Stein Eye Institute who launched the first-ever study to show...
CBSNEWS: Stem Cell treatment could aid leading cause of blindness
Possible stem cell treatment for Macular Degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in older Americans
The Guardian: First Trial of Embryonic Stem Cell Treatment in Europe Gets Green Light
“This is the first time an embryonic stem cell therapy has been approved in Europe,” said Lanza. Retinal cells derived from embryonic stem cells will be injected behind patients’ retinas.Photograph: Roger Tooth/Guardian British surgeons are to take part in the...
Washington Post: First patients treated in new human embryonic stem cell study
“The initiation of these two clinical trials marks an important turning point for the field.” said Robert Lanza, the company’s chief scientific officer. Researchers at UCLA treat the first patients in the second FDA-approved study evaluating a therapy made from...
MIT Technology Review: Two Patients Undergo Stem-Cell Blindness Treatment
“Researchers see the start of a second set of tests, in blindness, as an important landmark for the stem-cell field.” Eye opener: A confocal microscope image of a rat retina after injection of human retinal pigment epithelium cells.Credit: Advanced Cell Technologies...
Symbolic Communication Between Two Pigeons
SCIENCE 207; 543 (1980) Robert Lanza (with B.F Skinner & Robert Epstein) Download the PDF
“Self-Awareness” in the Pigeon
SCIENCE 212; 695 (1981) Robert Lanza (with B. F. Skinner & Robert Epstein) Download the PDF
“Lying” in the Pigeon
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 38; 201 (1982) Lanza (with Skinner & Starr)
Lanza & Skinner’s Work Featured in TIME Magazine
Lanza & Skinner’s Work on Symbolic Communication Featured in New York Times
Lanza & Skinner’s Work on Self-Awareness in New York Times
Lanza and Skinner’s Work Featured in My Weekly Reader
TIME: The Tiniest Transplant
The great promise of stem cells is finally being put to the test. “We are finally ready to break ground on this field with the first trials,” says Dr. Robert Lanza, “It’s taken a decade of extensive research to get...
NEWSWEEK: Saving Sight, Testing Faith
Lanza’s dream of turning human embryonic stem cells into therapies for the sick and the suffering is taking a huge step closer to reality. May 23 & 30, 2011 Stem cells from embryos may finally cure patients—reviving a bitter debate....
USA Today: Embryonic stem cell trial to test macular degeneration treatment
Federal officials have approved the start of human embryonic stem cell treatment experiments on patients suffering a leading cause of vision loss.
TIME: FDA Approves Second Trial of Stem-Cell Therapy
For only the second time, the Food and Drug Administration approved a company’s request to test an embryonic stem cell-based therapy on human patients.
Reuters: Second U.S. Company Gets Stem Cell Go-Ahead
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the second human trial of human embryonic stem cells — this one testing cells in people with a progressive form of blindness.
BBC: Human Trials to Start for Stem Cell Treatment for Blindness
An American biotech company has just announced that it has been licensed to begin human trials of a stem cell treatment for blindness.
