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To: Finalapproach29er
These are ADULT stem cells. Are you against that, too?

No. I interpreted the word donor to mean an abortion clinic could be a donor of sorts -- maybe that is skewing things. The article was unclear where exactly they got the stem cells. You can take the stem cells of an aborted baby with cornea developed -- because they did not state that the donors were adults.

I also was trying to interpret this at 3AM.

I wish they would have explicitly stated these are not embryonic stem cells and they do use aborted babies as donors.

21 posted on 05/03/2005 4:35:53 AM PDT by topher (John 5:58 + Exodus 21:22 +Jer 1:5 + Gen 9:6 +John 14:6 + Rev 12:1-17)
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To: topher

Stem cells from the patient or a donor are used to redevelop the cornea...
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No baby needed


23 posted on 05/03/2005 5:11:59 AM PDT by Finalapproach29er (America is gradually becoming the Godless,out-of-control golden-calf scene,in "The Ten Commandments")
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To: topher

While liberal media outlets might well weasel on the source of stem cells by using 'donor' to include murdered, unwilling 'donors', the fact that the article explicitly says 'from the patient' shows that the procedure works with adult stem cells (like all the successful stem cell procedures to date). Autodonation (patient as source) also has the virtue of no chance of tissue rejection and no need for anti-rejection drugs (a point which should be made loudly to everyone who through stupidity or wickedness equates 'stem cells' with 'embryonic stem cells'.)


26 posted on 05/03/2005 5:59:26 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (Christ is Risen! Christos Anesti! Khristos Voskrese! Al-Masih Qam! Hristos a Inviat!)
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