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To: hocndoc
Why is your hope so unlimited in embryonic stem cells but so narrow in the case of adult stem cells?

Actually, my hope is quite high for both. Adult stem cells appear to be easier to work with and yield short-term solutions. Pluripotent stem cells hold the hope for fixing what multipotent ones can't, plus they have the capacity for telling us what happens in the beginning of cell formation (adult ones can't do that, they're too far developed).

84 posted on 06/11/2004 3:33:50 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

There are just some steps we should not take - we ought not take.

We do not need to know what happens at the beginning of life if it means that we must deliberately kill those lives we study - what we would actually be studying would be the death that we are inducing.

Take a look at this article and the one above. Do you trust these minds that can twist themselves around the abandonment of "First, do no harm"? Why would you believe that they are doing good in any form, if they are willing to do this evil?


85 posted on 06/11/2004 7:58:13 PM PDT by hocndoc (Choice is the # 1 killer in the US)
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