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Partly cloudy, south Southeast winds at 10 to 20 mph
THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2013
Friday
Day at the park with Baby Jay.
Hl: 59
L0: 39
Saturday
HI: 61
LO: 50
Overcast with a 20% chance of rain. Winds from the South at 5 to 15 mph.
Overcast with a 50% chance of rain. Winds from the SSE at 15 to 25 mph.
Sunday
HI: 55
LO: 28
I'm singing in the rain!
Let's hope it doesn't snow...
Thursday, March 7
**WHAT:** Tea at Three
**WHERE:** Kansas Union, Level 4 Lobby
**WHEN:** 3 to 4 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Hit up the union for your weekly free tea and pastries. Cheerio!
WHAT: Myths and Mayhem Film Series:
"Rats"
Friday, March 8
WHERE: Dyche Hall, Panorama
WHEN: 6:30 to 9 p.m.
ABOUT: Check out this free film featuring genetically modified bats. Who says science has to be boring?
WHAT: MUMMENSCANZ 40 Years WHERE: Lied Center WHEN: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. ABOUT: Without dialogue, performers entertain their audience with a wide array of props and body language to tell a story. MUMMENSCANZ is known for its unique and artistic style. Tickets start at $15.
WHAT: Campus movie Series: Night
WHERE: Kansas Union, Woodruff
Auditorium
WHEN: 8 p.m.
ABOUT: See this Oscar-nominated
film, starring Denzel Washington.
Tickets are $2 with student ID.
Saturday, March 9
**WHAT:** Tea and Talk: May Tweit
**WHERE:** Art and Design Building,
Room 315
**WHEN:** 4 to 5 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Artist May Tweit will discuss
her ongoing series of site-responsive
artworks, Product Placement.
STATE
**WHAT:** Shamrock Shuffle 5K
**WHERE:** Ballard Community Center,
708 Elm St.
WHEN: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
ABOUT: Interested in raising money for the Lawrence St. Patrick's Day parade? Participate in the Shamrock Shuffle 5K and get your grub on at the Ballard Center pancake feed afterward.
Sunday, March 10
WHAT: Jayhawks Amazing Race
WHERE: campus
WHEN. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
ABOUT. Teams of 3 compete in this
Jayhawk version of the popular reality
show. If you think you and your friends
have what it takes to bring home the
gold, sign up at suaevents.com.
WHAT: Daylight Savings Time
WHERE: your alarm clock
WHEN: 2 a.m.
Bill proposes adult stem cell research at University
ABOUT. Be sure to set your clock back an hour. We may lose an hour of sleep, but it means that summer is that much closer.
MARSHALL SCHMIDT
MARSHALL SCHMIDT mschmidt@kansan.com
The University of Kansas Medical Center campus may soon be home to a centralized adult stem cell research facility. Senate Bill 199, which proposes the creation of the Midwest Stem Cell Therapy Center at KUMC, was passed by the Kansas State Senate last Thursday, said Mary Pilcher-Cook, a Kansas senator from Shawnee and the lead sponsor for the bill.
"In our country, we have stem cell tourism where people will travel abroad to get treatments with stem cells because they're so desperate for help," Pilcher-Cook said. "The Midwest Stem Cell Therapy Center would be the first in the nation and even internationally to expedite research that's happening in the lab with adult stem cells showing a measuring to get to the patient."
Pilcher-Cook said the facility would prohibit embryonic stem cell research and instead focus on adult stem cell research, which she said has been the most successful and peer-reviewed research.
"The center will facilitate treatment and research with adult stem cells, the only type of stem cell that has shown promise for organ repair in patients thus far" said
Buddhadeb Dawn, director of the Cardiovascular Research Institute at KUMC, in his testimony before the Senate Committee on Senate Public Health and Welfare. As a principal investigation of heart repair using adult stem cells, the facility will allow experimental therapies to be more easily translated to patients, Dawn said.
Adult stem cells have been most widely researched because they are cheaper, easier to obtain, and less controversial than embryonic stem cells said Banupriya Sridharan, a bioengineering graduate student from Chennai, India who researches stem cells at the University.
"The most widely discussed controversy is the source of stem cells". Sriddaran said.
Adult stem cells can be extracted from liposuction fat, donated organs, and most commonly amputated limbs. Embryonic stem cells are obtained from fertilized human embryos, which some consider to be killing human life, Sridharan said.
"Scientific research at the University of Kansas Medical Center includes human adult stem cell research as well as human embryonic stem cell research using cell lines approved by the administration of President George W. Bush", said CJ Janovy, spokesperson for KUMC. KUMC currently houses 23 laboratories where therapies treating conditions such as cancer, spinal cord injuries, and sickle cell anemia are being developed, Ianova said.
The estimated cost of the facility would total $10.7 million over a ten year period, said Douglas A. Girod, executive vice chancellor of KUMC, in his testimony supporting S.B. 199.
"These are not funds we currently have for this program at the medical center". Girod said. "Funding through the appropriations process of the state or development work in the private sector would be needed."
Edited by Elise Reuter
The U.S. National Institutes of Health currently lists more than 2600 studies involving adult stem cells are either completed or ongoing.
Guest lecture on violence
A book signing is scheduled to follow the event, which is free and open to the public.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Katz is the co-founder of the Mentors in Violence Prevention program at Northeastern University. He has authored numerous articles and books as well as a few educational videos, all of which relate to problems faced by young adults in society today.
Violence is an issue we hear about nearly everyday in the news both locally and globally. Students will have an opportunity to learn more about ways to make a difference during an upcoming guest lecture.
Jackson Katz will be on campus to present "More Than a Few Cod Men: A Conversation about, 'Manhood, Violence and Doing the Right Thing" at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 7, in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
The event is being sponsored by the Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity and should offer some valuable insight into the topic of violence in relation to cultural gender roles.
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Stanford M.D./Ph.D. student David Purger, changes the media of retinal ganglion cells from a rat in the Monje Lab at Stanford University's Lory I. Lokey Stem Cell Research Building in Palo Alto, Calif., on Friday, August 31, 2012. Kansas Med Center may be home to a Midwest Stem Cell Therapy Center.
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