While neural stem cell therapies are already advancing to clinical trials, this research raises cautionary notes about moving to
human therapy too quickly, said Tuszynski.
Not exact matches
Something has gone wrong with the
human race at a level
too deep for
therapy.
In the 1990s scientists such as himself, he explains, were
too caught up in the promise of gene
therapy to realize that they did not know enough about it to warrant
human testing.
«Our gene
therapy protocol is not yet ready for clinical trials — we need to tweak it a bit more — but in the not -
too - distant future we think it could be developed for therapeutic use in
humans,» says Jeffrey Holt, PhD, a scientist in the Department of Otolaryngology and F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Boston Children's and an associate professor of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School.
«Due to the high similarity of the receptor in
humans and dogs, this type of
therapy should work well in dogs
too,» the scientists say.
That's right, scientists are people
too and sometimes they get carried away by their enthusiasms as Emily Yoffe notes in her excellent Slate essay, The Medical Revolution; Where are the cures promised by stem cells, gene
therapy, and the
human genome?
Situations where dogs especially benefit from Calm - a-Mile RTU is prior to any stressful event (nail trims, veterinary visits, car rides...), to enhance training and obedience skills, prior to
therapy dog work (the
humans benefit from it
too!)
Human, All
Too Human - Jean Paul Sartre: The Road to Freedom Gestalt
Therapy Demonstration by Fritz Perls with Gloria - Part (1 of 2) Gestalt
Therapy Demonstration by Fritz Perls with Gloria - Part (2 of 2)