Thread by Salvation.
Abortion facility to close following 40 Days for Life campaign
Shawn Carney (right) of the national 40 Days for Life team, with two Orange County, California campaign leaders, standing next to the real estate sign that was placed outside the abortion facility on Day 39 of the fall 40 Days for Life.The abortion center is going to close its doors and shut down.
As you look at that picture, think about what it will feel like when the abortion facility or Planned Parenthood nearest to you posts a similar sign the day when you realize that due to your faithfulness, no more children will perish there and no more women will be wounded there.
Thread by GodGunsGuts.
Feb 23, 2009 Two more successes were chalked up for adult stem cell therapies recently. Science Daily said that sufferers from Crohns disease may have a new treatment option by getting injections of their own bone marrow stem cells. This now constitutes a treatment option to cure an intestinal disease that sometimes does not successfully respond to drugs and requires highly complex surgery that does not provide a cure.
Those afflicted with type 2 diabetes also have hope, thanks to adult stem cells. Science Daily also reported that progenitor cells exist in the adult pancreas. It is now clear that progenitor cells, with the capacity to become insulin producing cells, reside in the adult pancreas, said researchers from UC San Diego and the Burnham Institute for Medical Research. They found that the Wnt signaling pathway is implicated in the development of type 2 diabetes. By understanding these protein-signaling pathways, they can begin to take their stem cell research toward therapeutic treatments.
Not so good for embryonic stem cells. Nature News reported, Hybrid embryos fail to live up to stem-cell hopes. Heidi Ledford explained, The creation of human-animal hybrid embryos proposed as a way to generate embryonic stem cells without relying on scarce human eggs has met with legislative hurdles and public outcry. But a paper published this week suggests that the approach has another, more fundamental problem: it may simply not work. Researchers could not get them to grow past the 16-cell stage, and they failed to become pluripotent. The problem seems more fundamental than trying over and over again. Some ethicists may be glad for that. . .
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