Posted on 06/04/2009 6:20:19 AM PDT by Dutchgirl
WOW... just... wow.
teeman
Wow, what a great break through!!!
This is incredible. I wonder if this just works on certain types of blindness, or on regular near & far-sighted vision? It would seem that it would be only for cases of blindness relating to the cornea, but I would be interested in reading more about this.
I wonder if it corrects simpler issues, like astigmitisms? In other words, bring your eyesight to 20/20?
I’m legally blind....
Ditto.
Well, I need to have coffee. That ditto was for #5. lol
A couple of years ago adult stem cells saved the eyes of my son. He was losing his vision due to long-term effects of a chemical burn. The stem cells were taken from healthier parts of one eye and transplanted into both eyes. After just a few days (maybe 4), his sight was near normal, better than before the surgery, and after a couple of weeks, his sight was normal. Now a couple of years later you would never guess he had ever been injured.
Amen to that, and thanks for the thread, Dutchgirl!
Here's another link, same subject, with a link to the journal abstract where the study appeared...
Can Sight Be Restored With Stem Cells Grown on Contact Lenses?
My only beef with the article is that the fact adult stem cells were used isn't acknowledged.
son=son-in-law, but he’s like a son to me.
Injecting foreign tissues into one's body, be they of adult or embryonic origin, just isn't "natural". It's a measure of how much the abortion agenda has taken control of the MSM-reported debate over stem-cells that the key issue of autologous vs. everything else still goes widely unreported and unnoticed by the general public.
The pro-life movement would do well to focus the real debate on this point rather than characterizing this as embryionic vs. adult stem cells. "We want to help your body heal itself" has no rebuttal. Look at the literature. All of the real stem-cell results involve autologous stems, so there's no need to fall into the abortion trap in debating this issue.
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IF you see a LION at a supermarket. Thank them.
Why is the left determined to use embryos? I suspect there is a market for fetal tissue, anybody know what Planned Parenthood does with it? I sent them an email asking, never got a reply.
The answer should be obvious. The "stem cell debate" is just the latest flag of convenience being used to dupe the public into believing that some good will result from evil. By cleverly phrasing the debate as "embryonic" vs. "adult" the debate is steered into the familiar landscape of "choice". The pro-life movement falls into the trap when they argue for "adult" stem cells.
The real argument (for which the left has no response) is to phrase things as "natural" (autologous) vs. "artificial" (foreign tissue) cells.
There really is such a thing as "natural law". This is but one aspect of it.
Do you think this may be an option for you?
Of course you are right! To be technically accurate I, and they, should have used the term “autologous”. However, the battle of the day is to expose the evil, and therefore worthlessness, of pursuing “embryonic” stem cell use. My use the term “adult” was intended to serve that purpose — to make that distinction between the two. As soon as the baby-vs-adult battle is won, I’ll make an effort to keep my adjectives accurate. Thanks!
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