Thank you, Jim..Jeanne -------Original Message------- From: Jim Lubin Date: 3/26/2009 12:21:40 PM To: jrushton; Deborah Nord Capen; tmic Subject: Re: [TMIC] stem cell (OT?) Here it is. Worth watching.
Stem Cells and Neuroregeneration The Future Douglas A. Kerr, MD, PhD Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-25453169972889015 http://www.myelitis.org/rnds2008/stem_cels_MN_and_GRP_2008.pdf At 09:27 AM 3/25/2009, jrushton wrote: Thanks, Debbie!! If you don't watch/listen to anything else from that Symposium, you should truly look for that part! It is SO important because we have ALL been led astray and he makes it so easy to understand and he is the expert along with his staff!!! He is also one of the main ones trying so hard to get this passed in order to save those like you and I from living with our disabilities. Had it been available at our onset, we may have had a chance to be one of the 'lucky' ones and had this simple procedure done. I wish there was a way to show just that one section of the Symp... Is there, Debbie? It is so misunderstood that there will be those that could be helped but will refuse only because of the misunderstanding. Jeanne in Dayton -------Original Message------- From: Deborah Nord Capen Date: 3/25/2009 11:10:57 AM To: [email protected] ; Westgold; Amanda Diskey; [email protected] Subject: Re: [TMIC] stem cell (OT?) I will make just a short statement regarding this, as I do not wish to become involved in a debate. Dr. Kerr has stated in all of his talks that the BIGGEST mistake in the very beginning was to even give it the name embryonic stem cells". They are NOT embryos. They are NOT aborted fetuses. They are "blastocysts" - only two cells that could not ever survive outside of a petri dish on their own. Because the scientists made this mistake in the beginning of giving it the name "embryonic stem cell", all of the right-to-life people came out and attacked this research from the git-go. If you view the talks from all of our symposia at http://www.myelitis org/events.htm and listen carefully to Dr. Kerr's talks on stem cell research, you will have better knowledge of this. Regarding the idea of going out of the country to receive treatments, Dr. Kerr has also discussed this. The research is there, but the follow-up on the patients is lacking, so they have no record of how the patients did AFTER they left the country to go back home. Take care, Debbie ---- Jim Lubin [email protected] http://makoa.org/jim disAbility Resources: http://www.makoa.org
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