Posted on 12/01/2009 5:03:26 AM PST by decimon
PARIS (Reuters) – French scientists have found a way to create human skin rapidly from stem cells, a discovery that could save the lives of many burns victims who are vulnerable to infection and now wait weeks for a skin graft.
The scientists made the breakthrough by creating a patch of human skin on a mouse's back using stem cells -- cells which have the ability to develop into any human cell.
Skin grafts have traditionally been created from cell cultures taken from the patient -- a process that takes three weeks, too long for some patients suffering extensive burns.
The new method using stem cells allows hospitals to order human skin as soon as they take in a burns victim.
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I guarantee you that some folks will see this article will say to themselves: "HMMMPFFF! That is precisely the sort of scientific advance that Bush was blocking!"
This is the sort of subtle bias and indoctrination that the media engages in and which most people do not see. Embryonic Stem Cell advances (if they exist) are called "Embryonic Stem Cell advances". While all of the Adult Stem Cell advances are simply credited to "stem cell research".
If it is adult, then the press is still using lies and half truths to push a terrible agenda.
If it is embryonic then, my bad.
Has to be Adult Stem Cells. Embryonic stem cells are still tumerous and cancerous to other humans unless there is technology that I don’t know about.
Well, Reuters is an international news agency, headquartered in the UK, and the story is out of France. Bush didn’t cross my mind in reading this.
So are "adult" stem cells -- just takes them a few more divisions on average.
Obviously not like Embryonic ones. After all, there are over 50 treatments with them.
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This could be a huge breakthrough, both as a lifesaver and a way to reduce the horrible disfigurement that often accompanies severe burns.
And there could also be another huge advantage: using this against skin cancer. Often skin cancers clusters together on a section of skin, from which they branch out. If someone has a patch of skin like that, it might be possible to just remove the entire area, and replace it with new skin. One big surgery instead of a bunch of small ones that just try to stave off the problem a cancer at a time.
That's what I thought. This could begin as a lifesaving treatment and work its way to other uses.
It has to be ethical stem cells. If they did finally have a treatment from embryonic stem cells (ok, potential treatment) they would be trumpeting it from the rooftops.
...does not contain the word "Embryonic" so I assume these are Adult Stem cells. Of course, that fact is minimized by simply using the generic term "stem cells". I guarantee you that some folks will see this article will say to themselves: "HMMMPFFF! That is precisely the sort of scientific advance that Bush was blocking!"Well said, ClearCase_guy. Thanks decimon for posting it.
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