At Last-Stem Cells without Side Effects!
technologyreview.com Researchers at Harvard University, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and the MGH Center for Regenerative Medicine have found a way to create healthy stem cells from adult cells--no embryo required--using an adenovirus.
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"About five minutes."
"Why are we not funding this?!"
It's like what Peter said:
"It doesn't matter if you black or white, the only color that matters is green"
What's the difference?
Damn right wingers making so much noise for such a useless reason.
Many people lost precious time waiting for a treatment for their condition.
Right wingers are more passionately against stem cell research than left wingers are for stem cell research, which is why stem cell research has been held up.
E.g. each division of a circulatory stem cell gives rise to millions of white blood cells, red blood cells, platelets, bone marrow, etc. One adult stem cell type per "branch" of cells. An embryonic stem cell is even *less* differentiated than an adult stem cell and can form cells from all the branches.
Since cancer *is a disease of stem cells*, the ability to replenish a person's stem cells after killing, say, ALL the bone marrow cells to rid a person of leukemia could easily save lives. No finesse needed, just a way to grow a ***kton of cells quickly and put them back in the human body.
Sounds like they're claiming these things do the same as embryonic stem sells. If the article and I are incorrect in interpreting that, please enlighten us as to the differences. What can you get from "traditional" embryonic stem cells that you can't get from these (aside from a manufactured argument in favor of abortion)?
FTA: "Hochedlinger and his colleagues are now working to increase the efficiency of their adenovirus technique and to repeat their methods to create human iPS cells. "Once we do that," Hochedlinger says, "we can figure out whether [embryonic stem] cells and unmodified iPS cells are really identical to each other or not. I don't know the answer yet.""
If you're a woman and you're so concerned about the life of an embryo, then you take it and give birth to the baby.
Come on people, science has just been solving all our problems and debate topics, can't we just accept Intelligent design already?....
Now if you don't mind, the T-Rex back-taxi comes around every 35 min and I won't miss it this time! SADDLE UP WOOOOOOOOOO
/Fridays do this to my brain
Sources (to name just a few):
http://www.physorg.com/news121446759.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5272648.stm
http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/healthday/0 ...
If it weren't for the religious right, science could be focusing on actually *studying* this amazingly versatile cell, instead of trying to find half-assed workarounds which create their own subset of problems. This so-called "controversy" is setting back research by years, if not decades.
There are similar policies in other countries, as well.
The religious right and others would like to see all possible IVF leftovers given a shot at implantation and birth, not being used as a source of stem cells. Hence Bush's opposition to embryonic stem cell research. He only does what the Radical Right tells him to.
Although I can totally picture uneducated idiots still picketing against the stuff. I don't think many of the people who do that understand what they're protesting about in the first place and only understand that they think that stem cells = evil.
...that is, after I get off the computer.