-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Sujeet Bhatt
AIIMS pioneers stem cell injection VIVIDHA KAUL
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2005 11:35:37 PM ]
NEW DELHI: At seven months, Ishika Gupta has already been hospitalised five times. She suffers from cardiac myopathy, a disease which is causing her heart muscles to degenerate. Not too long ago, this would have been very grim reading.
But now there is hope. Doctors at AIIMS have injected stem cells taken from a bone in her leg into her tiny, frail heart. As she flashes a toothless smile and plays with her pacifier, mother Deepali hopes that Ishika's will be another success story of stem cell research at AIIMS.
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Do citizens in India harbor the same kinds of ontological-cum-religious anxieties regarding cytological-genetic engineering that many, many US citizens do? Who are the leading bioethicists in India?
Ian