A sobering setback in stem-cell research [embryonic=tumor]

Globe and Mail ^ | CAROLYN ABRAHAM

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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."

[Elsiejay]

Thank you; very helpful. Makes one wonder why we see so little in the MSM about the demonstrated positive results achieved with adult stem cells, but so much about the amazing and hopeful "potential" of embryonic stem cells, a potential that seems thus far mostly expressed in uncontrollable growths of tumors and other undesired "organs."
One could believe that the Culture of Death is real.