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Progress and Promise in HIV/AIDS
Antiretroviral therapy provides life-saving medicine to HIV-infected people but it is not a cure. Long-term exposure to the drugs and the virus itself shorten a person's life, even if they don't...

Progress and Promise in Parkinson's
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disease that affects nearly a million people in the U.S. No cure exists and current medications become less effective over time. This video provides a...

Progress and Promise in Huntington's
Huntington's disease (HD) is a genetic neurodegenerative disorder that typically strikes in a person's thirties and leads to death 10-15 years later. Through firsthand stories, this video describes...

Obama Inauguration: A Positive Change in Federal Stem Cell Research Policies
On March 9, 2009, President Barack Obama signed an executive order to lift a ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research that had been in place since August, 2001. In this video, Susan...

Jerome Zack Talks About Creating iPS Cells
In 2006 scientists learned how to create a pluripotent stem cell out of a human skin cell. These cells, called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells have many of the characteristics of embryonic...

Alan Lewis: Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies for Diabetes
Embryonic stem cells have the potential to help treat 70 or more diseases, but developing those new therapies will take time. Alan Lewis is president and CEO of Novocell, a La Jolla-based company...

Mark Mercola: Differentiating Embryonic Stem Cells into Adult Tissues
A major challenge in developing stem cell-based cures for disease is maturing those cells into adult cell types that can be used for transplantation or to study human disease. Mark Mercola has a...