They tried that, but the results were less than gratifying.
Posted on 08/27/2008 8:07:14 PM PDT by neverdem
Great! I hope they can change fat cells to muscle!
Pro-death advocates will continue to make specious claims that “more research is needed to find the magical, mythical powers of dead baby cells”.
Incidentally,there is a female freeper who has a PhD in biochem who is (IIRC) a captain in the army -- I eyeballed her FReeper home page last night, but I forgot her name.
If this sounds like any freeper you know, could you ping them, too?
Cheers!
>>I hope they can change fat cells to muscle!
I don’t WANT that much muscle!!! LOL
Their efforts will continue. The holy grail is to find a use for fetal tissue thereby validating their sacrament of abortion.
Recall the Lib-Dem & Lamstream shrieks four years ago about Bush ‘barbaric’ and his limits on embryonic stem cells???
That is exactly the real motivation for fetal stem-cell research. If the abortionists can get everybody to think of a fetus as just a bunch of cells that can be harvested like soy beans, then the argument against abortion disappears.
One goal of regenerative medicine is to instructively convert adult cells into other cell types for tissue repair and regeneration. Although isolated examples of adult cell reprogramming are known, there is no general understanding of how to turn one cell type into another in a controlled manner. Here, using a strategy of re-expressing key developmental regulators in vivo, we identify a specific combination of three transcription factors (Ngn3 (also known as Neurog3) Pdx1 and Mafa) that reprograms differentiated pancreatic exocrine cells in adult mice into cells that closely resemble -cells. The induced -cells are indistinguishable from endogenous islet -cells in size, shape and ultrastructure. They express genes essential for -cell function and can ameliorate hyperglycaemia by remodelling local vasculature and secreting insulin. This study provides an example of cellular reprogramming using defined factors in an adult organ and suggests a general paradigm for directing cell reprogramming without reversion to a pluripotent stem cell state.
Combined regenerative medicine/stem cell and diabetes ping lists, FReepmail me if you want on or off either list. Getting that abstract was a real headache.
Ping me when replacement lumbar discs generated from adult stem cells become available.
They tried that, but the results were less than gratifying.
Bump for later reading.
No, it doesn't.
Slaughtering the young to provide a few years more to the aged or infirm is still a crime against humanity, and violates the most basic trust inherent in parenthood, whether anyone talks about it or not.
Ignoring the issue will not make the crime go away, except in the minds of those who would ignore the horror they perpetrate or enable.
Ping to a stem cell development...(Thanks, neverdem!)
Great minds thinking alike!! I realize it's not quite the same priority as curing diabetes and other dread diseases, but maybe they will be able to give us all "designer bodies" some day..... I know, there may be ethical issues about that, too, but it's fun to think about......
Maybe someday in the future we'll figure out how to put enough of that harvested fetal tissue together to make a baby! What a glorious day that will be. We can claim we've created life just like God. And it only took us a thousand dead "fetuses" to develop Frankenbaby. Oh wait maybe we'd still just be taking lives with a single freak exception.
No, it doesn't. Slaughtering the young to provide a few years more to the aged or infirm is still a crime against humanity, and violates the most basic trust inherent in parenthood, whether anyone talks about it or not. Ignoring the issue will not make the crime go away, except in the minds of those who would ignore the horror they perpetrate or enable.
You I and both oppose abortion. We start from the premise that a fetus is a human life. Therefore, for us it is a crime to abort a fetus. But if everybody was persuaded that a fetus is not human, then aborting a fetus would not be a crime. That is the hidden agenda in fetal stem cell research.
I oppose fetal stem cell research. Was that not clear from my post?
My goodness, it is a crime today to smoke a cigarette in a bar, but it is perfectly legal for a woman can go to a doctor and have a living fetus scraped out of her uterus with about the same significance as scraping mud off of her shoes. People have gone completely nuts!
Yes, it was. My point is that there is at last resort, a visceral, God-given instinct to not slaughter our own young, something that beats within almost every mother's breast, and the lack of debate will never erase the deeper knowledge that such a harvest of 'cells' is wrong.
Thus if the argument is removed from public view, it would continue nonetheless. (Unless the human race is even farther down the road to damnation than I thought. Not mine to judge, though).
My goodness, it is a crime today to smoke a cigarette in a bar, but it is perfectly legal for a woman can go to a doctor and have a living fetus scraped out of her uterus with about the same significance as scraping mud off of her shoes. People have gone completely nuts!
I agree. It is insanity.
“ethical quagmires associated with embryonic stem cell research.”
BUT BUT BUT This same MSM tells us that a fetus/embryo is NOT life.
There can be no “ethical quagmire” if it isn’t a person.
Just as betrays the lie to say that abortion should be “rare”.
You do know that the DNC platform dropped this language this year? No more "safe, legal, and rare" - simply on demand and regardless of ability to pay for it.
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