[wagglebee]

Sherley said that the "tumor formation property is an inherent feature of the cells" and warned that the possibility of overcoming it is likely very far into the future.

MIT is about as leftist as you can get, if they're jumping ship it should be obvious to all that embryonic stem cell research has no future.

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[mockingbyrd]

What??!!?? But John Edwards told me that if Kerry was elected people like Chris Reeve would walk again. See evil Bush has taken all the embryonic stem cells and hidden them away so that people have to suffer. The minute that these cells are made available to the poor scientists who want to help people, all the world's problems will be cured.

At least that's what I was told for the last six years.

[My2Cents]

the possibility of overcoming it is likely very far into the future.

In other words, likely "nonexistent."

[GSlob]

"the possibility of overcoming it is likely very far into the future."
"if they're jumping ship it should be obvious to all that embryonic stem cell research has no future."
Non-sequitur at its biased worst. One thousand miles journey starts with the first step and continues with the next ones, but he who stops walking will never reach the goal. As long as there are smart people working on them, the things which are "likely very far into the future" become closer every day, like it was [and still is, 50 years later] with, for example, fusion reactors. Where would that field be if the work in it stopped after the first small tokamak?

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[VeritatisSplendor]

"MIT is about as leftist as you can get, if they're jumping ship it should be obvious to all that embryonic stem cell research has no future."

That's one professor. Lotta others are still gung-ho.

Mrs VS

[curiosity]

MIT is about as leftist as you can get

It depends on the department. The finance department at the Sloan School, for instance (where I studied), leans right. There are quite a few right-leaning people in the economics department, too. Most people in the hard sciences lean left, but they tend to keep their politics seperate from their science. There's also a few prominent right-leaning guys hard scientists, like the atmospheric science prof who's a global warming skeptic.

The real problem is in the humanities departments; that's where Noam Chomsky is. Nearly everyone I knew in the finance and econ departments were embarassed that he and other "humanists" like him are affilated with the Institute.

[jimfree]

Fascinating. I'd heard about the failures but I hadn't heard about the tumors. I'm very limited in biological science study, but I'm pretty logical. Could it be that the embryonic cells are faster replicating and out of synch with the more mature host?

[Norman Bates]

Embryonic stem cell "research" in the European Union has less than 1 millions euros allocated annually for it. Even they know it's a blind alley.

[tang-soo]

But it's a position supported by the Pro-Life camp. Therefore it has to be fought against by the Pro-Death camp. Logic and evidence be damned.

[Quiet Man Jr.]

To all pro-lifers - not specifically wagglebee - please be cautious about LifeNews. Often Ertelt doesn't get the story right and mixes up stem cell methods.

BTW, left as as MIT is, Professor Sherley is no lefty ;-)

[denydenydeny]

An MIT professor says that embryonic stem cell research is nowhere close to helping patients.

That's because the US hasn't put 10% of its GNP into embryonic stem cell research, you heartless creep. /HEAVY sarcasm

For the Left, the more money one confiscates from others, the more compassionate one is. Concern over results is selfish.

[Coleus]

Embryonic Stem Cell Research on Animals Has FAILED to Produce Any Cures or Treatments in 25 Years

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[Plutarch]

Embryonic stem cells would be tissue transplantation from another person. Adult stem cells use the patient's own DNA. Embryonic stem cells would have much greater regulation cost and litigation risk.