> On 7/19/06, Robert Everland III wrote: > > > Wow I really can't believe that there are actually people in the > technology industry that have an issue with this. > > What's tech have to do with it.
Everything. A state of the art stem cell research lab is beyond bleeding edge. We just spent over 3/4's of a million on one PCR robot alone. > > > What makes you think that a miracle cure isn't going to happen? > > I said what make you think the US Government is going to create some > kind of miracle cure Look up most of the major medical and biological breakthroughs in the last 40 years, they were either done by government scientists with the National Institutes of Health or an affiliate, or funded directly by the NIH. Given their track record, I'd say its a better than even chance that the government via its research arm will come up with more than one miracle cure. > > > Every researcher out there has said that there is great hope in > figuring out how to create stem cells so that they can be used on > diseases such as parkinson's to cancer to even going so far as healing > the nerve endings after someone has lost the use of their limbs. > > I'm not disputing that. > > > The 22 lines you are going on and on about have been said to have > issues with contamination or just aren't able to be used for stem cell > research. > > I read that they are easily deconaminated. And what about such factors as the mouse cell contamination, or the tumoricity. Those cannot be removed from the 22 cell lines. Moreover of the cell lines many have lost viability and do not replicate beyond 2 or 3 times. Thats nowhere near enough to be useful. Also many of the cell line now have a tendancy to become cancerous now. That cannot be easily correct. > > > 136 researchers huh, wow, that's ridiculous that you even quoted > that number. There are more researchers at 1 university. > > All doing stem cell research and they all need there own samples? > Then > how many do you need and where will they all come from? If your facility is receiving any government funding you cannot do stem cell research except with one of the approved lines, otherwise you lose all federal funding. Even if that money has nothing to do with the research in the first place. > > > Do you have any idea how many scientific heads we have lost because > they are able to go to other countries to do the research. > > No, please share. What governments are spending the amount of money > ours is on this research? England is currently spending about 5 times the amount the US spends, China far more. Even tiny Singapore is spending about twice as much as the US. I'm not sure about the EU or India, but from what I understand their spending is in the hundreds of millions for next year. > > > I think you need some perspective. > > Well since I'm not a scientist your probably right but I was refering > to G's clainm that thousands will die because of this. Look how many people die from Parkinson's disease every year, or diabetes. Tens of thousands, if not more. You do need some perspective on this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:5/messageid:211479 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
