New Stem Cell Research

CHUQ · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 3:18 am Post subject: New Stem Cell Research

The newest promising research is both good and bad, I guess it depends on who is reading.

A new way to trick skin cells into acting like embryos changes both everything and nothing at all. Being able to reprogram skin cells into multipurpose stem cells without harming embryos launches an exciting new line of research. It's important to remember, though, that we're at square one, uncertain at this early stage whether souped-up skin cells hold the same promise as their embryonic cousins do.

Far from vindicating the current U.S. policy of withholding federal funds from many of those working to develop potentially lifesaving embryonic stem cells, recent papers in the journals Science and Cell described a breakthrough achieved despite political restrictions. In fact, work by both the U.S. and Japanese teams that reprogrammed skin cells depended entirely on previous embryonic stem cell research.

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Tumbleweed · Black Ops Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3687 votes: 3

Kind of ironic that our government will provide funds to kill people but not fund programs that might keep someone alive. Rolling Eyes

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CHUQ · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:31 am Post subject:

My daughter always sez that the conservs are pro-life only until birth.
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Tumbleweed · Black Ops Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3687 votes: 3

Your daughter makes a good point CHUQ. Cool

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CHUQ · Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:12 am Post subject:

More good news in the research.

Using a recently developed technique for turning skin cells into stem cells, scientists have cured mice of sickle cell anemia -- the first direct proof that the easily obtained cells can reverse an inherited, potentially fatal disease.

Researchers said the work, published in yesterday's online edition of the journal Science, points to a promising future for the novel cells. Known as iPS cells, they have been touted by President Bush and some scientists as a possible substitute for embryonic stem cells, which have been mired for years in political controversy.

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