[Alberta's Child]

The issue with Alzheimer's disease is that any stem-cell treatment will be utterly ineffective in treating it. The problem is that Alzheimer's is what is called a "whole brain" disease as opposed to a "brain cell" disease -- so any treatment dealing with individual cells won't do a damn thing.

[Mr. Silverback]

The issue with Alzheimer's disease is that any stem-cell treatment will be utterly ineffective in treating it. The problem is that Alzheimer's is what is called a "whole brain" disease as opposed to a "brain cell" disease -- so any treatment dealing with individual cells won't do a damn thing.

Yeah, what do they think that a crop of stem cells could do about plaque on the brain? Zippo, that's what. And even if Alzheimer's was a problem involving the death of cells or damage to cells, we'd be using stem cells to replace them with brand new brain cells. A brand new neuron doesn't help you remember somebody's face, it's frickin' empty!

Of course, that's assuming that embryonic stem cells are useful at all, which we're not seeing with the data so far. Research in that area is simply killing kids on a wisp of a forlorn hope, or in other words, grant-money-a-rama.