Posted on 11/20/2007 7:40:45 AM PST by Pyro7480
Ping!
But, but, but, the liberals said it HAS to be from murdered babies. They wouldnt’ lie to us would they?
This is not good for the sacred cause of Abortion.
Ah yes, the medical payoffs of embryo cloning. What were those again?
“Damn. Now we have to come up with some other reason to murder babies. Alternative energy, maybe?”
/Democrat Party
Nice to see University of Wisc will hold more patents in this procedure. Of course they owned patents on the Embryonic Stem Cell lines and many ‘research’ facilities tried to get around paying royalties. Will be interesting to see what the idiots in California who set aside $3 billion for their own stem cell iniative will do. In any event, this is wonderful news because my son’s endocrinologist has always been saying that the rejection problem of using someone elses cells to cure diabetes would creat as many problems as they solve. I.e. having to take powerful/expensive inmmuno suppresetn drugs for the rest of your life to prevent rejection. This new method will get around that problem.
Now this is research I can back fully. Go science !!! :)
Important Life Ping!
The scientist who cloned Dolly has pitched that approach and is going into this re-programming technology.
The issue here is that scientists knew that IF this could be accomplished, it would hold a tremendous advantage in that cells from patient A can be used in patient A with no problems of rejection.
The issue always seemed to be that we didn’t know how complicated this process could be and how totipotent the cells would become. That this is somewhat more simple than supposed is astonishing.
I hope this technique is as big a breakthrough as is being touted.
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“...cells that were virtually indistinguishable from stem cells.”
Let’s wait until the cells are literally indistinguishable. I think there is a great difference between the two words when it involves medicine.
By the time they get these cells fine-tuned enough to be useful for treatments, they will be viable embryos. I don’t have a problem with any kind of embryonic stem research, but those who object to stopping the development of any viable embryo in order to use its cells for treatment or research shouldn’t get too excited about this. The rest of us, however, are thrilled that serious progress appears to have been made towards creating genetically matched totipotent stem cells for treatment.
An unborn child is just a "research tool" for these scumbags.
Nuremberg Code, anyone?
I was just thinking about that. And it’s billions, about 6 actually. And the money can only be used for embryonic research, so this new stuff won’t get a dime.
Excuse me, but my impression is that it's exactly the opposite. It's the totipotent feature of embryo cells that makes them such a wild-card in proposed therapeutic use: fingernails, hair and teeth growing in patient's brains, etc. Thr more specific the stem cells is (e.g. pluripotent, multipotent) the more useful it is in actual treatment applications.
Pres Bush approves of this.
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