[Hayrider]

Amazing how little you hear about stem cells these days, isn't it?

[Carley]

Farah Fawcett and Dominick Dunne went to Germany for embryonic stem cell treatment of their cancer.

Both are dead.

The exploitation of those who are desperately seeking medical treatment is immoral.

[traderrob6]

Wonder what Michael J Fox has to say about it now.

[sickoflibs]

Didnt Kerry say he would save lives with this issue? And other democrats too? What a joke!

The reason why Bush and republicans couldn't sell this argument is they were spending so much money and growing government so much that a fiscal defense for what was basically a conservative moral argument looked lame. .

[Slyfox]

Adult stem cells can produce results, while embryonic stem cell research is a dead end.

The dead end is that embryonic stem cells are unreliable and are prone to grow cancers and no one could figure out how to mediate that kind of result.

[wbill]

IMHO, if embryonic stem cells contained any type of viable treatment option, then companies would be throwing money at the technology with both fists.

It might be happening in places other than the US...places more friendly to the almighty dollar, rather than the almighty... but it would be happening.

So....is it happening? How many miracle cures have come out over the past 10 years or so?