Posted on 08/02/2005 1:59:52 PM PDT by Lori675
The self-professed purpose of South Korea’s Histostem Corporation is music to the ears of pro-life advocates waging a difficult war against deadly embryonic stem-cell research. According to its website, Histostem “is pioneering cell-based therapy with stem cells, free of ethical problems.” Hoon Han, CEO of Histostem, received his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Korea in 1979.
There are few who would argue that Histostem’s research and experimentation with treatments involving only stem cells isolated from the blood in umbilical cords collected after birth poses any notable ethical conundrums. The corporation claims numerous successful treatments to date for dozens of varied diseases, using newly developed cord blood stem cell techniques.
Riding the wave of its medical successes Histostem announced earlier this month that it would be pairing up with an unnamed European investor to create the world’s first hospital dedicated solely to umbilical cord stem-cell treatments. Each partner will pony up $80 million to build the hospital on the southern resort island of Jeju sometime in 2007. The hospital will have 100 beds.
Hey Bill Frist - you can conduct cutting-edge medical research without murdering kids!
Sounds like you've found Frist a new career too!
My brother's medical records are going to these guys(they already got some)...while these idiots want to continue to waste our money on unethical research, places like South Korea(and Portugal) are moving ahead with stem cell treatments far in advance of anything in this country.....
Frist's lie on the Senate floor, that we need to kill embryos, is about to bump into a big wall.
So is his reputation.
Makes sense. In spite of much nonsense coming from the peacenicks and bourgeois radical youth Commie wannabes there, South Korea has a distinct pro Christian, pro Life orientation.
OK here's a question.
Does the umbilical cord contain the DNA of the mother or the child?
ping
Cord blood contains the DNA of the child.
You should have added the final paragraph from your source
"Among those conditions that Histosterm claims to have treated with varying degrees of success are spinal cord injuries, liver cirrhosis, Buerger's disease, diabetes, chronic renal failure and dozens of others. Last November Histosterm received wide publicity after televised images showed the world's first patient paralyzed by a spinal cord injury and treated with cord blood stem-cell research taking a number of steps."
LifeSiteNews.com
We've banked our last two children basically as an insurance policy. I project they will be able to grow replacement organs for the donors if needed in twenty years.
I hear the main problem with embryonic stem-cells is they create tumors.
They dont know how to stop the tumors from growing.
Tumors dont seen to grow from umbilical cord cells.
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