Adult Stem Cell Research More Effective Than Embryonic Cells

Lifenews.com ^ | May, 2004 | Wesley Smith

[wagglebee]

The leftist media will continue to suppress this information because it interferes with their favorite cause, murdering babies.

[MHGinTN]

Allow me to offer a ping to a few friends of LIFE.

[MHGinTN]

PING))))))

[Blood of Tyrants]

Even embryonic stem cell research is unnessary since stem cells are abundant in umbilical cord blood. If the scientists wanted stem cells for research, there is so much available from cord blood as to flood the market.

[MHGinTN]

Ah, but some cannot resist the opportunity to 'play god with life' ... it is mentally empowering to those who thumb their noses at the Creator.

[wagglebee]

These are the exact same people who will blow up construction sites to save a tree or a few insects. But full speed ahead at murdering babies for unnecessary research all to give somebody a choice (the choice was when these women made the decision to have sex and risk the possibility of pregnancy).

[MHGinTN]

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[KriegerGeist]

Then why does Nancy Reagan want baby cells that require killing babies? She is calling on Prseident Bush to reverse his ban of baby cell research.

[wagglebee]

IMHO Nancy was always a little bit "out there." I understand her anguish now, but I think she has been "brainwashed" by her Hollywood "friends." President Reagan is a great man and I personally doubt he would want this research and certainly not for himself.

[nunya bidness]

Heads up.

[185JHP]

Thanks.

[Ms. AntiFeminazi]

As always, thanks for the ping.

[Sockdologer]

Bump for life.

[Askel5]

Thanks Nunya ... Smith is outstanding as always. It's not just that adult stem cells are more efficacious and have experience far greater success, it's that embryonic stem cells have experienced no success and, in fact, have ended up horror stories as experiments went wrong, Parkinson's patients ended up far worse off and bone and hair grew in brain tissue

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Even some of the most enthusiastic boosters of embryo stem cell research see trouble ahead. For example, University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Glenn McGee admitted to Technology Review, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology publication,

"The emerging truth in the lab is that pluripotent stem cells are hard to rein in. The potential that they would explode into a cancerous mass after a stem cell transplant might turn out to be the Pandora's box of stem cell research."

Thus, it could be that adult tissue-specific stem cells are actually safer than their counterparts culled from embryos since, being extracted from mature cells, they may not exhibit the propensity for uncontrolled differentiation.

The Politics of Stem Cells (also by Smith, btw)

I think it's important to remember that the one thing at which adult stem cells are NOT as effective as adult stem cells is the nailing open of a window of Non-Personhood wherein human lives may be manufactured like ears of corn for industrial applications.

[Paul_B]

> Diabetes: As reported in the November 14, 2003, issue of the distinguished journal Science, Type 1 (juvenile-onset) diabetes has been cured in mice using human spleen cells. The cells migrated to the mice pancreases, "prompting the damaged organs to regenerate into healthy, insulin-making organs" and thus curing their diabetes. The authors noted that "because the cell donors and hosts are adults, this system would preclude ethical issues associated with the use of embryonic stem cells, as well as concerns that [cell] transdifferentiation of embryonic stem cells may be incomplete."

There was just a story a week ago, whereby embryonic stem cells were used in the restoration of pancreatal beta cells. I'm not sure how far along the results were, perhaps it was just promising at this point. But the gist was that adult stem cells were not effective, but ESCs were.

[Spirited]

Bump.

[Victoria Delsoul]

The thrust of the research now seems indisputable: While certainly not yet a sure thing, and noting that much work remains to be done in animal and controlled human studies, barring unforeseen problems adult-stem-cell and related therapies may be potent sources of new and efficacious medical treatments in the years to come. Just as significantly, these therapies are likely to be available far sooner than embryonic-stem-cell treatments, since adult and related therapies do not appear to cause tumors, would not be rejected, and do not have to be maintained indefinitely in vitro, because they would come from patients' own bodies.

Makes sense. Thanks for the ping.

[Lakeside]

They can try and suppress this information all they want. The cat is out of the bag when it comes to the successes of adult stem cell therapy.

I cannot wait until this passes all hurdles to become the usual treatment for those who need it. I'm one of them. But I'd rather die than use the stem cells from aborted babies. I am encouraged by the advances in the field of adult stem cell research.

[djf]

Nova reported on this. They are having some extraordinary results treating spinal cord injuries with the patients own stem cells, harvested, believe it or not, from up in the nasal cavity.

[OneTimeLurker]

Somebody should send this to Nancy Reagan.