[jwalsh07]

But it is so much more utilitarian to create life and then destoy to it save another life.

[Valin]

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[Dialup Llama]

No it has to be a life boat scenario. They've got to get the cells from aborted babies. One must die so that another lives. What will Dr. Dean Edell do for a show when he can't hammer Christians by way of the stem cell/abortion issue?

[concerned about politics]

The Frankenstien doctors aren't concerned about healing cells as much as they are for finding the fountain of youth. The youth of the unborn so that Hollywood and Democrat politicians may live forever.
Otherwise, they'd be celebrating this discovery. It's a huge step in the right direction.

[rwfromkansas]

This is going to hit the Evening News tomorrow (yeah right...they only report on embryonic stem cell research because it serves their agenda).

[Valin]

• Genetically marked stem cells from adult mice were injected into the embryos of other mice. When born, the mice had many organs that were formed in part by the introduced stem cells.
• Genetically marked adult stem cells were injected into other mice, and successfully formed colonies in the liver, intestines and lungs.
• In a finding that replicated earlier published research, Verfaillie found that mouse and rat stem cells could be manipulated in the laboratory to mimic tissue from a variety of organs.

I must be in a particularly good mood as I saw this article as a piece of good news. I guess some folks just have to only see the down side.

[SuziQ]

Isn't it interesting that the studies coming out on the adult bone marrow 'progenitor' cells are showing much more promise than those on the embryonic stem cells? Think Someone is trying to tell us something?

[aposiopetic]

Thanks for posting this. Adult stem cells continue to amaze.

[aposiopetic]

And in the (Red)Star-Tribune, no less!

[The Raven]

...University of Minnesota researchers have shown for the first time in mice that rare stem cells taken from bone marrow can form the tissue of many different organs.

Hmmm...the first time, huh?

How will they explain this news from January?

"...A Yale research team led by Diane Krause turned a single stem cell from the bone marrow of an adult mouse into lung, liver, intestinal, and skin cells for other mice."

Reference : News from the World of Adult-Stem Cell Research"

[RJCogburn]

Verfaillie and McKay said their findings offer compelling reasons why adult and embryonic stem cell research should be pursued. It is not yet known, Verfaillie said, which type of cell will prove to be the best route to medical treatments.

Exactly. The reasearch in both types of cells should proceed. We don't know the answer until we do the research.

[marvlus]

I look forward to the days (hopefully soon) where the many neurological afflictions can be overcome. I think stem cell research will lead to those days.

[Eva]

My sister-in-law had a stem cell transplant to cure multiple-myeloma, a formerly fatal cancer that has also inflicted Geraldine Ferraro. The stem cells that they used were harvested from her own blood, before the bone marrow was killed off by chemo therapy. It is still a very experimental treatment but she is doing beautifully. I believe that this stem cell work is a miracle from God.

[RightWhale]

Of possibly related interest:

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Stem Cells In Brain Linked To Formation Of Gliomas

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"The UF investigators have found that glioblastoma tumor cells derived from brain tumors of patients can maintain their stem cell properties and may be induced to differentiate (mature) at least in the test tube," May said. "This suggests that under appropriate therapeutic conditions, any brain tumor cells lurking after surgery and radiation therapy could be induced to turn into normal cells if the right conditions were identified and could be administered."

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[VOA]

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