Posted on 10/23/2006 4:56:41 PM PDT by minus_273
The progress of science is paved with stories of high hopes and heartbreaks. But in a busy lab at the University of Rochester the two extremes have met in one dazzling yet devastating experiment.
Researchers there have for the first time essentially cured rats of a Parkinson's-like disease using human embryonic stem cells. But 10 weeks into the trial, they discovered brain tumours had begun to grow in every animal treated.
"Here we have this method that works so well to reverse the symptoms of Parkinson's," said lead investigator Steven Goldman, "But no matter how you look at it, it's an expanding mass and that's bad news."
None of the cells growing out of control were cancerous tumours. But as Dr. Goldman pointed out, "In the brain, nothing's benign."
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I well remember how many times the MSM made this exact point when describing the progress of the Strategic Defense Initiative.
Paging Michael J. Fox...
Members of the MSM should be injected with embryonic stemcells. Get this over once and for all ~ in 6 months or less too.
Read it and weep.
Did they mention the fraud? Surely they mentioned the fraud...
Bump
No good can come from the vampirish practice of embryonic stem cell harvesting.
It's good to be sober rather than drunk with false hopes, based on death.
It's not nice to fool Mother Nature.
It's not right to mess with this kind of stuff either. Medical science is replete with examples of things that have backfired. We aren't going to live forever on this planet; we should be more concerned with getting people ready for the next go round. But then, that's never been very popular. The Amish have it right.
Screw the Amish.You should never fear technology.
-s
" People insist on using embryonic ones for experiments as a backdoor way of legitimizing abortion..."
...and some people see the world through fevered delusions.
Yes, I feel sorry for the rats. Not the mad "scientists"..
Flowers for Algernon?
Of course not. Technology is always
Is it a "fevered delusion" that the same people who support ESCR support abortion?
Of course, lobotomies were perfectly innocuous, too.
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rmertens/Psych381/lobotomy/lobotomy.htm
The Amish don't fear technology, they CHOOSE to live without it. At least, when it isn't forced on them in really unpleasant, unexpected ways.
Hmm. I think I read somewhere recently that the idiots in Hollywood are drinking some trendy health compound made from fetal stem cells, in an effort to improve their health. I'm not absolutely sure of that, but I think it's what I saw.
If so, it looks as if they will reap what they have sown.
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