I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
In a major breakthrough that would have been impossible two years ago, researchers from the University of Michigan have created the first embryonic stem cell line developed in this state. The find was to be announced at this weekend’s World Stem Cell Summit in Detroit. The Detroit Free Press reports:
Republicans in the state legislature are trying to pass a series of bills to sharply limit the use of embryonic stem cells in medical research. Among those is a bill that would set a rather meaningless definition in order to limit the number of blastocysts available to researchers from which to derive the stem cells:
Now that the creation of new embryonic stem cell lines for research is legal in Michigan thanks to the passage of a referendum last fall and President Obama has lifted the ban on federal funds for such research, the University of Michigan is launching a new project to create new stem cell lines that can [...]
President Barack Obama is widely expected to sign an executive order today which undoes the previous Bush administration policy and earlier executive order limiting embryonic stem cell research.
The Lansing State Journal reports that two of the three major research universities in the state, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, are planning to expand their stem cell research programs in the wake of the passage of Proposal 2 earlier this month. Michigan State University is proceeding more slowly, forming an advisory [...]
Just when new developments hold out the promise of doing embryonic stem cell research without any destruction of embryos, a new research study has rekindled another fierce controversy over the ethical uses of such research. Researchers in the UK and Brazil have announced that they believe it will be possible in the future to use [...]
As we reported in late November, the publication of two new studies that show that it’s possible to “reset” adult stem cells to an embryonic state has caused quite a stir in the media, the scientific community and among the conservative Christian opponents of embryonic stem cell research (ESCR). The papers were published by teams [...]
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