Supermans not running scared, he's not running at all
Controversy is news. Truth is not. I have written about the stem cell controversy several times, and feel it is important to do so, because if you don't do the prodding yourself, will wont get the truth from the media. The fact is, if it doesn't involve embryonic stem cells, you wont hear of it at all. Embryonic stem cells make news, Adult stem cells make progress. Adult stem cells (from bone marrow) have made great strides recently.
Scientists in London have reported that five patients with liver damage were treated by first injecting them with a drug that stimulates their bone marrow to produce extra adult stem cells (A.D.S.). Then the stem cells were injected directly into the vessel leading to the liver. 3 out of 5 of the patients had increased liver function and overall improved health within two months of treatment. The only other treatment for serious life theatening liver damage is donar replacement. Which involves a lifetime of drugs to prevent rejection (if you don't die before getting a liver).
Also korean scientist injected umbilical cord stem cells into a paraplegics spine. She was paralyzed for 19 years from an accident. At a press conference recently she stood upright and crudely walked with the aid of a walking frame. I think about Christopher Reves campaining hard for embryonic stem cell research in the hopes it would would help him walk again. Perhaps if he directed all his Hollywood friends to put the money into adult stem cell research rather than embryonic stem cell research he would have walked one last time before his passing. But adult stem cell research isn't controversial, so how could it be beneficial? To this day most people believe that embryonic stem cells has the promise of healing everything. Mainly because if some scientist makes a small step of progress with E.S.C., its plastered all over page one in hopes to create some controversy. While umbilical cord stem cells research is getting the paralyzed to walk and A.S.C.'s are healing badly damaged livers, you wont even hear about it. While the politicians debate on weather or not embryonic stem cells are morally just and should be funded, think about what adult stem cells could accomplish if we stopped worrying about E.S.C's and sunk all funding into A.S.C's. You can either debate about the promise of E.S.C.'s to heal something someday, or go with the one with proven results healing stuff right now, Duh!
Scientists in London have reported that five patients with liver damage were treated by first injecting them with a drug that stimulates their bone marrow to produce extra adult stem cells (A.D.S.). Then the stem cells were injected directly into the vessel leading to the liver. 3 out of 5 of the patients had increased liver function and overall improved health within two months of treatment. The only other treatment for serious life theatening liver damage is donar replacement. Which involves a lifetime of drugs to prevent rejection (if you don't die before getting a liver).
Also korean scientist injected umbilical cord stem cells into a paraplegics spine. She was paralyzed for 19 years from an accident. At a press conference recently she stood upright and crudely walked with the aid of a walking frame. I think about Christopher Reves campaining hard for embryonic stem cell research in the hopes it would would help him walk again. Perhaps if he directed all his Hollywood friends to put the money into adult stem cell research rather than embryonic stem cell research he would have walked one last time before his passing. But adult stem cell research isn't controversial, so how could it be beneficial? To this day most people believe that embryonic stem cells has the promise of healing everything. Mainly because if some scientist makes a small step of progress with E.S.C., its plastered all over page one in hopes to create some controversy. While umbilical cord stem cells research is getting the paralyzed to walk and A.S.C.'s are healing badly damaged livers, you wont even hear about it. While the politicians debate on weather or not embryonic stem cells are morally just and should be funded, think about what adult stem cells could accomplish if we stopped worrying about E.S.C's and sunk all funding into A.S.C's. You can either debate about the promise of E.S.C.'s to heal something someday, or go with the one with proven results healing stuff right now, Duh!
posted by Jim Fisher at 10:20 AM
1 Comments:
Exactly what conservatives have been saying. Don't you just hate that.
;-)
God Bless
Howard
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