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A sobering setback in stem-cell research [embryonic=tumor]
Globe and Mail ^
| CAROLYN ABRAHAM
Posted on 10/23/2006 4:56:41 PM PDT by minus_273
The progress of science is paved with stories of high hopes and heartbreaks. But in a busy lab at the University of Rochester the two extremes have met in one dazzling yet devastating experiment.
Researchers there have for the first time essentially cured rats of a Parkinson's-like disease using human embryonic stem cells. But 10 weeks into the trial, they discovered brain tumours had begun to grow in every animal treated.
"Here we have this method that works so well to reverse the symptoms of Parkinson's," said lead investigator Steven Goldman, "But no matter how you look at it, it's an expanding mass and that's bad news."
None of the cells growing out of control were cancerous tumours. But as Dr. Goldman pointed out, "In the brain, nothing's benign."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: adultstemcells; babykillers; embryonic; moralabsolutes; righttolife; stemcells
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there are existing treatments using adult stem cells. People insist on using embryonic ones for experiments as a backdoor way of legitimizing abortion via science. Then you get stuff like this. Also look at how the media deliberately mixes stem cells with embryonic stem cells to seed confusion. It works well without the political and ethical dilemma why not try adult stem cells or cord blood?
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posted on
10/23/2006 4:56:43 PM PDT
by
minus_273
To: minus_273
The progress of science is paved with stories of high hopes and heartbreaks. I well remember how many times the MSM made this exact point when describing the progress of the Strategic Defense Initiative.
To: minus_273
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posted on
10/23/2006 4:59:01 PM PDT
by
IncPen
(Bush Iraq Truth WMD http://freedomkeys.com/whyiraq.htm)
To: minus_273
Members of the MSM should be injected with embryonic stemcells. Get this over once and for all ~ in 6 months or less too.
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posted on
10/23/2006 4:59:09 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: Dave S
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posted on
10/23/2006 4:59:46 PM PDT
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
(Why can't Republicans stand up to Democrats like they do to terrorists?)
To: minus_273
Did they mention the fraud? Surely they mentioned the fraud...
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posted on
10/23/2006 5:00:09 PM PDT
by
AmishDude
(Mwahahahahahahahaha -- official evil laugh of the North American Union)
To: Coleus
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posted on
10/23/2006 5:01:55 PM PDT
by
Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: minus_273
No good can come from the vampirish practice of embryonic stem cell harvesting.
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posted on
10/23/2006 5:03:37 PM PDT
by
Argus
To: metmom; wagglebee
It's good to be sober rather than drunk with false hopes, based on death.
To: little jeremiah
Researchers there have for the first time essentially cured rats of a Parkinson's-like disease using human embryonic stem cells. But 10 weeks into the trial, they discovered brain tumours had begun to grow in every animal treated.It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.
It's not right to mess with this kind of stuff either. Medical science is replete with examples of things that have backfired. We aren't going to live forever on this planet; we should be more concerned with getting people ready for the next go round. But then, that's never been very popular. The Amish have it right.
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posted on
10/23/2006 5:19:51 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: metmom
Screw the Amish.You should never fear technology.
-s
To: minus_273
"To do this, they harvested glial, or brain-support cells, from the precise brain region of an aborted fetus that would, at 11 to 22 weeks gestation, trigger the development of the dopamine neurons needed."
To: minus_273
" People insist on using embryonic ones for experiments as a backdoor way of legitimizing abortion..."
...and some people see the world through fevered delusions.
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posted on
10/23/2006 5:39:07 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Read it and weep.Yes, I feel sorry for the rats. Not the mad "scientists"..
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posted on
10/23/2006 5:43:31 PM PDT
by
mvonfr
To: metmom
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posted on
10/23/2006 5:48:04 PM PDT
by
soupcon
To: minus_273; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; ...
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posted on
10/23/2006 5:53:45 PM PDT
by
Coleus
(Woe unto him that call evil good and good evil"-- Isaiah 5:20-21)
To: screamradish
Screw the Amish.You should never fear technology. Of course not. Technology is always
perfectly benign.
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posted on
10/23/2006 5:57:40 PM PDT
by
Campion
("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
To: gcruse
and some people see the world through fevered delusions. Is it a "fevered delusion" that the same people who support ESCR support abortion?
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posted on
10/23/2006 5:58:51 PM PDT
by
Campion
("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
To: Campion; screamradish
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posted on
10/23/2006 6:06:14 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: minus_273
Hmm. I think I read somewhere recently that the idiots in Hollywood are drinking some trendy health compound made from fetal stem cells, in an effort to improve their health. I'm not absolutely sure of that, but I think it's what I saw.
If so, it looks as if they will reap what they have sown.
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posted on
10/23/2006 6:09:51 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
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