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To: Coleus
This article is bogus.

It states the patient is treated with "bone marrow" stem cells (which are Adult Stem Cells) and then clearly implies that Embryonic Stem Cells were used.

There is a huge difference.

Go to Fumento's site for clarification

2 posted on 05/10/2007 9:35:10 PM PDT by skeptoid (AE, AA , MBS with clusters)
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To: skeptoid
implies that Embryonic Stem Cells were used >>

I wouldn't say that... thanks for the fumento link, he's posted widely on the FR

When surgery and operations failed to show results, doctors suggested bone marrow stem cell therapy, an opportunity Ramesh grabbed.

More than 300 patients suffering from corneal surface disorders have been treated using limbal stem cells at the LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad with a 70 per cent success rate.

Meanwhile, a four-month-old baby with improper heart muscle contraction and no hope for survival is steadily recovering after doctors at the Frontier Lifeline Hospital, Chennai, drew stem cells from the baby’s blood and injected them into the heart last year.

3 posted on 05/10/2007 9:44:50 PM PDT by Coleus (I Support Research using the Ethical, Effective and Moral use of stem cells: non-embryonic "adult")
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