Judging from the editorial which appeared on the last day of the story we see that the paper couldn't wait to bash president Bush and advocate for embryonic stem cell research. They never mentioned that using embryonic cells are a failure and NEVER worked on one human being and are using junk science, scare tactics and "guessing" by saying that embryonic stem cells hold the most promise. They fail to say that embryonic stem cells are primitive, primordial and act like cancer cells (rapid, uncontrolled growth) in the body and since these cells are made up of real and individual distinct humans, the patients reject these cells just as they do with organ transplants.
Embryos are human beings and are the by-products or throw aways of In-vitro fertilization procedures conducted in the more than 350 fertility clinics in America.
If I'm not mistaken, Bob Casey, former governor from PA, had amyloidosis, and ended up getting a heart/liver transplant.
Wonderful, miraculous treatment, if not cure. We've got one in our family: my granddaughter had an umbilical cord transplant at 15 months old because of a genetic problem that kept her from ever making enough white blood cells (her count was never above 1800, despite Nupogen) and then complete bone marrow failure.
We learned today that adult stem cells continue dividing much longer and reliably than previously thought.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050623/clth053.html?.v=14
(For goodness sake, we learned last year that women make new eggs for their whole lives - negating what used to be Truth: all eggs are created by a girl before birth.
For some reason, far too many with the loudest voices and public forums continue to lack imagination. For some reason, they insist that it will be more useful to create clones of each patient, find or create stem cells - destroying the clone - to treat the disease.
Why on earth would anyone believe that cloning is more feasible than finding and treating and then using adult stem cells???
Bump, and marking for reading tomorrow. Looks like a great article.
Thank you for posting this.
Last August my father got this diagnosis. Within three months he was gone. This was my prayer thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1190929/posts
He needed a heart transplant and a stem cell transplant but his diagnosis came too late. I'm so thankful so many others have been saved when it's caught in time.
Happy Father's Day Daddy.