Investment in Stem Cell Research

Work is starting on a £3.8 million upgrade of fertility services and stem cell research facilities. The investment at the Center for Life, in Newcastle will include facilities for stem cell research. It is part of an on going project aimed at making the north-east of England one of the top 10 centers for stem cell research in the world by 2010. The project is being led by the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine is a partnership of regional development agency One NorthEast, Newcastle and Durham Universities. Details of the grant were announced in December of last year and the money will be used to create two facilities which means stem cells can be produced in sufficient quality to be used on patients for therapeutic purposes.

Baby Born After Ovary Transplant

A German woman gave birth to a baby girl after an ovary transplant. The woman had no plans on having a baby. The woman got the ovary from her twin sister. The woman also had the worlds first ovary transplant. The woman got the ovary transplant because she was tiered of feeling the pain of her own ovary that had failed.

Real Bionic Women

A women looses her arm in a motorcycle crash. Her are was amputated and replaced with a bionic arm. Her severed nerves were placed into her chest, she can control her bionic arm with her brain, and when something touches her chest she can feel it where her severed arm used to be.

I thought this article was cool because for someone who lost their arm but can feel the things that touch her chest where her arm used to be. This is a wonderful thing because people who loose their arm and maybe even their legs can feel things where their arms and legs used to be. They will be able to control their arms or even their legs with their brains.