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"There's such an obsession in the U.S. with embryonic stem cells," said Prentice. "About all embryonic stem cells have done is make tumors in rats."

And provide a safeguard for Big Abortion.

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I am now personally involved in Adult Stem Cells because of my dad. He’s 76 and has major heart problems. His cardiologist is at the forefront in this research—not the pentagon’s but heart related. My dad plans to be part of a double blind study in the next couple months. This is very new to me, but basically: Marrow is taken from the hip and processed in a lab. I think the processing takes a few weeks then injected into the heart where the cells grow new veins ? or arteries to replace the ones that are blocked and cannot be cleared. The growth takes months. It’s a double blind study as I understand it because half are injected with their stem cells and half are injected with some inert substance and no one knows which. After six months the study is clear who got the “placebo” and then this control group can start their treatments for real. The first trials were a complete success and I think they called this level 2 trials.

I just received an email from the Doc with links but have yet to start reading them. I will post ASAP.

As Pro-Lifers this is doubly exciting. Because we can be a voice for this procedure. After twenty years Embryonic Stem Cells have been a complete failure, whereas Adult have resulted in many great successes with many more to come. I think I will start some kind of separate thread for this on my dad.

Please pray that this all works out and my hero dad can keep fighting the good fight.