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
To: Plutarch
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")
To: Plutarch; All
patient's own stem cellsThat'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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