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		<title>Herbal Therapy in Coughs And Colds</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cough and flu-like symptoms is a major disruption for most of us. Although the symptoms usually disappear after 1-2 weeks without any form of treatment, they are a common cause of physician visits, missed classes and work absences. There far &#8230; <a href="http://www.bioeducenter.org/after-riset/herbal-therapy-in-coughs-and-colds.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img "alignleft size-medium wp-image-262" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;" title="22019" src="http://www.bioeducenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/22019-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" />Cough and flu-like symptoms is a major disruption for most of us. Although the symptoms usually disappear after 1-2 weeks without any form of treatment, they are a common cause of physician visits, missed classes and work absences.</p>
<p>There far above regimen to fight coughs and flu, however, none of them could be as calm as they come naturally. Herbal medicine has become part of the cough and cold relief since the beginning of civilization, and we realize this fact.</p>
<p>Some from plants used in the past that are still used today, except that modern technology has found ways to make them consumer-friendly.</p>
<p>Hornbeam is a deciduous tree growing to 12m by 10m with a slow speed which is also used in essences for people who feel tired or exhausted because of lack of spiritual or emotional fulfillment in their work or daily life. Hornbeam is said to relieve the discomfort associated with flu-like runny nose, sneezing and other allergy symptoms.</p>
<p><span id="more-212"></span>Dog Rose is a variable scrambling rose species native to Europe, including Britain, northwest Africa and West Asia. Hips are used in the treatment of colds, influenza, and are often made to be used as a flavor syrup for fun in the treatment of cough and added to the mixture. Fruit is a very rich source of vitamins and minerals, especially vitamins A, C and E, flavonoids and other bio-active compounds. It is also a source of essential fatty acids, which is unusual for a fruit. This has been investigated as a food that is able to reduce the incidence of cancer and also as a means to halt or reverse cancer growth. Elder</p>
<p>Black materials described as rural medicine cabinet because he worked miracles. It acts as an anti-viral agent, against cold and flu symptoms. Research has shown that the boundary and reduce the symptoms of Black Eldercaused by several strains of influenza virus A and B. Black Elder also may have some activity against HIV, herpes virus, and H1N1 viruses. Elder</p>
<p>Black shown to trigger an immune response against viral infections in the body. This is also an anti-oxidant that helps reduce free radical damage and strengthen cell membranes to stabilize collagen. It is also a cleansing and detoxifying agent and help with the relief of fever with sweat. Poplar</p>
<p>Black used as an expectorant for coughs and to stimulate circulation and alleviate pain, providing soothing relief for colds and sore throats.</p>
<p>Black Raisin has a very sweet and sharp taste and has a high content of antioxidants and vitamins. This is very rich in vitamin C and contain nutrients such rare GLA (Gamma Linoleic Acid), which is very rare Omega-6 essential fatty acid which is useful in improving circulation.</p>
<p>Although many of us believe in the power of herbal medicine, we do notwidely used because it is not practical in its preparation. In order for them to be strong, extracts of fresh herbs should be used, and the busy city life does not have garden space to grow this plant. However, plant science has found ways to bring us closer to herbal medicines, with the discovery of plant stem cell therapy.</p>
<p>Plant stem cell therapy is a form of therapy that used extracts from buds, young shoots and young roots. Part of plant extracts selected for use because it is believed to be the center of the plant energy and thus, they are a major source of therapeutic effects. This section, made into the PSC plant stem cells, also differ from adult plants because they are less exposed to toxins and pollutants. plant stem cell therapy is effective</p>
<p>PSC treasury. embryo tissue was found in a PSC plant stem cells containing genetic information and biological energy for future crops. PSC also has a plant stem cellsabundance of precious materials such as growth hormones, including auxins, gibberellins, ethylene, abscisic acid, cytokinin, nucleic acids, minerals, oligoelements, flavonoids, vitamins and enzymes. All these substances are stored in amber bottles to prevent further degradation of the active component. Sinus Complex</p>
<p>The complex nutrients that eliminates the inconvenience respiratory tract infection without causing drowsiness or agitation. This is the best day of the complex is available in the market. hornbeam buds is a natural decongestant that supports acute or chronic sinusitis. Dog Rose young shoots for a runny nose (coryza), and headaches as well as post-nasal drip, cough and pharyngitis are often associated with sinusitis. Elder black buds similar to Tamiflu shorten viral infections and help break down excessive mucus. Black currant support of anti-inflammatory and immune bud. Walnut is a natural antiviral shootsnd antibiotics.</p>
<p>The Sinus Complex containing hornbeam buds, Dog Rose young shoots, buds Elder Black, Black Poplar, Black Walnut Raisin and buds.</p>
<p>The Sinus Complex is considered depending on the severity of 30-45 drops, 3-4 times per day are needed to control the symptoms of a half glass of spring or filtered water. This can be taken directly by mouth. Dosage in children is 15-20 drops depending on severity, 3-4 times per required. Please contact your doctor for more information.</p>
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		<title>UPDATE 3-US stem cell research rules ease some restrictions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human embryonic stem cells must be clinic leftovers * Batches already in existence may be reviewed * NIH says rules reflect broad public support (Adds reaction from Republican opponent, paragraph 9) WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. government released &#8230; <a href="http://www.bioeducenter.org/news-post/update-3-us-stem-cell-research-rules-ease-some-restrictions.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Human embryonic stem cells must be clinic leftovers</p>
<p>* Batches already in existence may be reviewed</p>
<p>* NIH says rules reflect broad public support (Adds reaction from Republican opponent, paragraph 9)</p>
<p>WASHINGTON, July 6 (Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. government released new rules on Monday governing federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells, loosening some ethical requirements that scientists said could have cost them a decade of work.</p>
<p>The rules, which take effect on Tuesday, keep many existing restrictions on the research. U.S. federal funds may still not be used to actually make the cells using human embryos &#8212; only to work with the cells after someone else has made them.</p>
<p>But the National Institutes of Health, which issued the rules, eased some of the measures in the initial guidelines drawn up in March, including the so-called &#8220;informed consent&#8221; requirements meant to ensure that people who donated embryos for research knew exactly what they might be used for.</p>
<p>&#8220;We allow a case-by-case review,&#8221; acting NIH director Dr. Raynard Kington told reporters in a telephone briefing.</p>
<p><span id="more-54"></span>In March, President Barack Obama lifted restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research that had been put in place by his predecessor, former president George W. Bush and asked the NIH to draw up new guidelines.</p>
<p>Stem cell company stocks did not move much on news of the new rules, in part because the changes mostly affect academic researchers who rely on federal funding for their work.</p>
<p>The NIH guidelines take into account many of the arguments put forward during nearly 10 years of debate over how best to use the potential of human embryonic stem cells, which have the power to give rise to all the cells and tissues in the body and which supporters hope can transform medicine.</p>
<p>Opponents say it is wrong to destroy human embryos for any reason.</p>
<p>&#8220;The administration&#8217;s decision to dramatically expand the number of stem cell lines derived from human embryos and create incentives for the destruction of human life is a provocative step beyond what the president proposed just months ago and yet another sign that he has quickly retreated from his promise to be a president for all Americans,&#8221; House of Representatives Republican leader John Boehner said in a statement.</p>
<p>However, over the years Congress reached a middle ground, with many social conservatives such as Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch supporting such research if it used embryos left over at fertility clinics.</p>
<p>BROAD PUBLIC SUPPORT</p>
<p>&#8220;The guidelines reflect the broad public support for federal funding of research using human embryonic stem cells created from such embryos based on wide and diverse debate on the topic in Congress and elsewhere,&#8221; the new rules say.</p>
<p>They limit such research to these in vitro fertilization or IVF leftovers but also loosen restrictions on using human embryonic stem cells made in other countries.</p>
<p>In April when the initial guidelines were published some scientists said the &#8220;informed consent&#8221; rules on educating embryo donors were so strict that they might force labs to discard valuable stem cell batches, called lines.</p>
<p>&#8220;The draft guidelines that were released were so restrictive that I feared the vast majority of lines would be excluded,&#8221; Dr. George Daley of Harvard University in Massachusetts said in a telephone interview. He said the revised rules answer his concerns.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is the most that the administration can offer under current law,&#8221; said Dr. John Gearhart, a stem cell expert at the University of Pennsylvania. &#8220;There are many &#8216;new&#8217; cell lines that have exceptional properties and have been maintained under better conditions that will meet the criteria of use.&#8221;</p>
<p>The rules create in effect the first official federal oversight of human embryonic stem cell research, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine said.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[HONG KONG (Reuters) &#8211; Chinese researchers have managed to create powerful stem cells from mouse skin and used these to generate fertile live mouse pups. They used induced pluripotent skin cells, or iPS cells &#8212; cells that have been reprogrammed &#8230; <a href="http://www.bioeducenter.org/news-post/chinese-experts-grow-live-mice-from-skin-cells.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HONG KONG (Reuters) &#8211; Chinese researchers have managed to create powerful stem cells from mouse skin and used these to generate fertile live mouse pups.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img "aligncenter" src="http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&amp;d=20090723&amp;t=2&amp;i=10975215&amp;w=460&amp;r=2009-07-23T160312Z_01_BTRE56M18LG00_RTROPTP_0_EGYPT" border="0" alt="Abdel Halim Tolba, a snake hunter, holds a mouse which is used to feed snakes at the Tolba snake farm in Cairo, Egypt, December 17th, 2005. REUTERS/Stringer" /></p>
<p>They used induced pluripotent skin cells, or iPS cells &#8212; cells that have been reprogrammed to look and act like embryonic stem cells. Embryonic stem cells, taken from days-old embryos, have the power to morph into any cell type and, in mice, can be implanted into a mother&#8217;s womb to create living mouse pups.</p>
<p>Their experiment, published in Nature, means that it is theoretically possible to clone someone using ordinary connective tissue cells found on the person&#8217;s skin, but the experts were quick to distance themselves from such controversy.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are confident that tremendous good can come from demonstrating the versatility of reprogrammed cells in mice, and this research will be used to &#8230; understand the root causes of disease and lead to viable treatments and cures of human afflictions,&#8221; said Fanyi Zeng of the Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.</p>
<p><span id="more-50"></span>&#8220;It would not be ethical to attempt to use iPS cells in human reproduction. It is important for science to have ethical boundaries,&#8221; she said, adding that their study was &#8220;in no way meant as a first step in that direction.&#8221;</p>
<p>No one has ever cloned a human being and while many stem cell experiments in mice have been replicated in humans, not all have.</p>
<p>Led by Qi Zhou at the Chinese Academy of Sciences&#8217;s State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, the team created iPS cells, using mouse fibroblasts, which are cells found in connective tissue in the skin.</p>
<p>Stem cells are the body&#8217;s master cells, giving rise to all the tissues, organs and blood. Embryonic stem cells are considered the most powerful kind of stem cells as they have the potential to give rise to any type of tissue.</p>
<p>But they are difficult to make and require the use of an embryo or cloning technology. Many people also object to using human embryonic stem cells and many countries limit funding for such experiments.</p>
<p>From the skin cells, the Chinese scientists created 37 stem cell lines, and of these, three generated live births.</p>
<p>&#8220;One line can generate such competent mice that the longest living one we have is nine months,&#8221; Zeng told Reuters.</p>
<p>&#8220;It has generated now more than 100 of second-generation (mice) and more than 100 third-generation (mice). It really demonstrates how fertile and strong the system is.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Chinese experiment generated questions and caution from other stem cell researchers not connected to the study.</p>
<p>&#8220;These investigators have, for the first time, unequivocally demonstrated that the iPS lines they have generated are truly pluripotent,&#8221; wrote Andrew Laslett, group leader of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Technology at the Australian Stem Cell Center in Melbourne, Australia.</p>
<p>Pluripotent is a term meaning the cells can give rise to all the tissues in the body.</p>
<p>&#8220;Moreover, the long-term stability of both the iPS cell lines and the long-term health of the mice generated using this procedure are yet to be reported. It will be interesting to see whether mice generated in this fashion have a higher propensity for tumor formation,&#8221; Laslett wrote.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. National Institutes of Health released final rules on Monday governing federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research. Following are some facts about stem cells: * Stem cells are the body&#8217;s master cells, the source of &#8230; <a href="http://www.bioeducenter.org/factbox/embryonic-stem-cells-the-ultimate-master-cell.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(Reuters) &#8211; The U.S. National Institutes of Health released final rules on Monday governing federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.</p>
<p>Following are some facts about stem cells:</p>
<p>* Stem cells are the body&#8217;s master cells, the source of all cells and tissue, including brain, blood, heart, bones and muscles.</p>
<p>* Embryonic stem cells come from days-old embryos and can produce any type of cell in the body.</p>
<p>* Scientists generally harvest embryonic stem cells from embryos left over after in vitro fertilization attempts at fertility clinics. They can also be produced using cloning technology but the new U.S. rules allow for federal funding only of work on surplus IVF embryos.</p>
<p><span id="more-38"></span>* Scientists hope to harness the transformational qualities of stem cells to treat a variety of diseases, including injuries, cancer and cystic fibrosis.</p>
<p>* The issue is controversial because some people believe the destruction of any human embryo is wrong.</p>
<p>* Several companies are pursuing stem cell research including Geron Corp. which last week teamed up with General Electric Co to use stem cells to test new drugs for toxicity.</p>
<p>* Other companies involved in stem cell research include Stemcells Inc., Advanced Cell Technology, NeuralStem, Aastrom Biosciences Inc., Reneuron Group Plc., Thermogenesis, Osiris Therapeutics Inc, Neostem Inc., Cytori Therapeutics Inc., iZumi Bio Inc., and International Stem Cell Corporation.</p>
<p>*U.S. legislation called the Dickey Amendment forbids the use of federal funds for the creation or destruction of human embryos for research, but new U.S. policy allows federally funded researchers to work with cells someone else had taken from an embryo.</p>
<p>* The issue does not fall clearly along party lines and some conservative Republicans who oppose abortion have backed broader federal funding of embryonic stem cell research for years.</p>
<p>* Britain, Belgium, Sweden, Canada and New Zealand encourage embryonic stem cell research. Austria, Lithuania and Poland have laws banning most human embryonic stem cell research.</p>
<p>* Researchers have discovered how to make embryonic-like cells from ordinary cells, called induced pluripotent stem cells. Opponents of embryonic stem cell research say research can focus on this field, but most scientists agree that all approaches must be pursued.</p>
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		<title>S.Korea seeks 4-year prison term for stem cell fraud</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEOUL (Reuters) &#8211; South Korean prosecutors told a Seoul court on Monday they wanted a four-year prison term for disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk, whose research team has been linked to major fraud in its once-celebrated stem cell studies. Hwang, once &#8230; <a href="http://www.bioeducenter.org/news-post/s-korea-seeks-4-year-prison-term-for-stem-cell-fraud.html">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SEOUL (Reuters) &#8211; South Korean prosecutors told a Seoul court on Monday they wanted a four-year prison term for disgraced scientist Hwang Woo-suk, whose research team has been linked to major fraud in its once-celebrated stem cell studies.</p>
<p><img id="image0" "aligncenter" src="http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&amp;d=20090824&amp;t=2&amp;i=11335116&amp;w=700&amp;r=2009-08-24T110255Z_01_BTRE57N0UP100_RTROPTP_0_KOREA-CLONING" alt="Main Image" height="390" /><br />
Hwang, once a scientist with rock-star like status in South Korea for his research that brought the country to the forefront of stem cell studies, is facing trial on charges of fraud, misusing 2.8 billion won ($2.25 million) in state funds and violating bioethics laws.</p>
<p>Prosecutors said Hwang brought shame to the country and harm to scientific research in South Korea.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The disappointment felt by the (Korean) people is enormous,&#8221; one of the team of prosecutors told the court.</p></blockquote>
<p>Hwang, who has apologized for fraud in his team&#8217;s work, has denied any wrongdoing and said he was duped by junior researchers into believing the landmark results</p>
<p><span id="more-35"></span>Lee Bong-gu, a lawyer for Hwang, said: &#8220;These people, including the prosecutors are trying to tear apart Hwang&#8217;s precious scientific evidence.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hwang&#8217;s trial at a nondescript Seoul court has been going on for about three years, and could stretch into a fourth, legal experts said. It has been bogged down in the technical testimony from scores of scientists about the research done by his team.</p>
<p>His supporters have staged emotional rallies over the years and filled the court for each of what are typically monthly hearings, saying Hwang is a scientific savior who should be given a second chance.</p>
<p>Hwang&#8217;s team was thought to have made two major breakthroughs in the field by cloning stem cells and tailoring them to a specific patient, which raised hopes of generating genetically specific tissue to repair damaged organs or treat diseases such as Alzheimer&#8217;s.</p>
<p>Stem cells are the body&#8217;s master cells, giving rise to all the tissues, organs and blood. Embryonic stem cells are considered the most powerful kinds of stem cells, as they have the potential to give rise to any type of tissue.</p>
<p>An investigation team at Seoul National University, where Hwang once worked, said in late 2005 that Hwang&#8217;s team deliberately fabricated vital data in the two papers on human embryonic stem cells.</p>
<p>It did verify, however, that Hwang&#8217;s team produced the world&#8217;s first cloned dog, an Afghan hound named Snuppy.</p>
<p>&#8220;Hwang&#8217;s fall discouraged the government from supporting stem cell studies. It also meant that researchers in the field were the objects of scorn,&#8221; said Oh Il-hwan, a Catholic University Medical school professor specializing in bioethics.</p>
<p>With major financial backing from his supporters, Hwang went on to form Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in 2006, which specializes in animal cloning and has produced cloned dogs.</p>
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