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To: soccer8
Any embryonic stem cell "cure" would involve using tissue with another person's DNA, essentially a transplant. It would involve all the regulation of a drug, and then some more.

Expect real treatments to use the patient's own stem cells, thus avoiding transplant issues, and greatly simplifying regulation.

5 posted on 11/11/2006 11:12:47 PM PST by Plutarch
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And there's the whole thing in a nutshell! If you are using the stems cells of the patient, you can't slap a patent on it and charge $9385747348575873.79 per dose!


6 posted on 11/11/2006 11:19:00 PM PST by Uriah_lost (We've got enough youth, how about a "fountain of smart")
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patient's own stem cells

That's one of the highlights of this research, IMO. No immunosuppression.

I pray every day for a cure to be found.

It's late and I need rest. Adios until tomorrow.

7 posted on 11/11/2006 11:19:37 PM PST by batter ("Never let the enemy pick the battle site." - Gen. George S. Patton)
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