In my view, The announcement by Bush amounts to Zero..Zip..Nada. Might as well not
have said anything.
Private companies can still do as much Research as they want to, and that's where most
were looking for breakthroughs
anyways, from the private drug companies.
Stem cell research using Embryos will go on and it will be business as usual.
I'm still intrigued though, and trying to find some info on exactly what the process
entails, and waht sort of benefits
scientists expect can be realised.
I was told (by another Trini at a bar so I have to find corroborating evidence hee
hee) that they think it would be [possible
to inject these cells into someone and start the growth of say a human eye if the
right cells are used. Since they removed
the liver from a mouse, then injected the appropriate stem cells for a liver into the
mouse, and almost immediately one
started to grow. Hence the potential is there to regenerate human body parts including
arms and legs which are lost.
But how LONG will these things take to grow? It took my earlobe 24 years to grow to
the masterpiece it is today...does that
mean I'm going to have to wait another 25 years if something goes wrong with it? 0_0
So there are issues..unless growth is accelerated.
IF I find out more I will post ^_^
*covers his earlobes with his hands just in case*
-Gel
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 13 August 2001 05:50
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Stem Cells..
There was a really good evaluation of this on NPR's Weekend Edition. It
turns out that there are lots of different kinds of stem cells, and the
kind from cord blood and placentas is only one. There is a certain type of
cells that can ONLY be obtained from embryos. There are other types,
commonly used for some types of cancer and leukemia treatment, that are
taken from adult bone marrow. Contrary to the President's arguments, the
existing embryonic stem cell cultures are NOT indefinitely renewable. They
have this nasty habit of growing in undesirable ways and turning into nasty
tumors and cancers and mutants, oh my!
The radio article also described how even a federal funding ban wouldn't
have stopped the research. There has been a total ban on federal funds for
in vitro fertilization research for over 30 years now, but that hasn't
really even slowed it down. Private funds will get a clinic around almost
every federal regulation and oversight requirement that exists. One woman
they interviewed had already gotten a phone call from a fertility clinic in
California, asking her if they could sell the embryos left over from some
in vitro fertilization procedures.
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