Posted on 03/21/2005 7:51:51 AM PST by dead
If you ever get a pounding sensation in the nasal sinuses, maybe it is just the stem cells growing a new heart between the eyes.
Cutting your research budget, then hoping that somebody else will come up with your next product is like holding your breath underwater in the hopes of evolving gills.
Last year there was a report from Russia that using the same cells they were able to grow new spinal nerve cells.
"New nerve cells, glial cells, liver cells, heart cells, muscle cells -- all were grown in a dish from stem cells from the human nose"
So, Woody Allen's "Sleeper" was right after all!
"Nonsense. VCs fund a great deal of research, along with companies of various sizes, including stem cell research."
I'm with Holger on this. While some private money is spent, it is swarfed by govt spending (eg NIH spending at near $40 billion). VCs much rather spend our money than theirs ... that is what the Cali stem cell boondoggle was all about: Taxpayers footing the bill for research.
Which is to say that the VCs do put money into research, but would rather the taxpayers do so. Who can blame them!
Ambilical Cord Stem Cells have also proven to be great. They are easily obtained once a baby is born. The trick to the ambilical cord is that it is something that must interface with the DNA of the mother and the DNA of the baby, so it is "adaptable" to other bodies, apparently.
Finally, what they are talking about, adult stem cells, have great promise because your body will not reject your own cells and your own DNA [I certainly hope not].
Embryonic Stem Cells, besides being immoral [killing someone for research purposes] is a waste of money and time, but people can make billions off the waste by "controlling the research".
Great, just when I get a truckload of fetuses....
Cartman (on phone): Okay Gary. How about $90 a fetus?
Gary: How about $50 a fetus?
Cartman (on phone): Come on Gary. You are breaking my balls Gary! You are breaking my balls. How about $70? Okay, I'll call you back.
The bottom really fell out of the fetus market once Superman sailed off for bluer skies.
Horsehockey. Private industry spends everything but the CEOs bonus on clinical research. What was the last disease cured by a government?
You're confusing research with development. Research will tell you only that beta blockers will work (and that came from a series of NIH grants), but only development will produce the actual beta blocker drugs. The goal of clinical "research" is to develop the latter.
I am sure you have heard of R & D.
I am not confusing either. Pharmaceutical companies must do both. I know, I did both. They do not rely on the NIH for research.
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The difference between "totipotent" and "pluripotent." A totipotent cell can become any kind of cell. A pluripotent cell is limited to becoming a certain range of cells. Even a totipotent cell is not necessarily identical to a one-celled embryo - it will not put into play the self-directions to develop into a complex organism - unless it is manipulated to so. That's why, in order to clone (so far) you have to take a cell nucleus and insert it into an denucleated egg, and then stimulate the egg.
Suppose any nose'll do?
That'll just crush the pro-aborts. They've been needed a noble excuse to abort more babies.
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Don't bet that pluripotent stem cells won't soon be converted into totipotent ones. Researchers have already figured out how to grow eggs from male embryonic stem cells. And how to fertilize an egg using half the genetic material from any cell in the body. And one of the proposed methods for using adult stem cells to create new organs or specialized cells to treat medical conditions, involves putting the genetic material from an adult stem cell into an egg (either natural, or artificially produced) which has been stripped of its original genetic material, and then coaxing the egg to start developing as an embryo. When this technique is refined to the point where it can produce any needed organ or cell type, you can be sure it will also be at the point where it can produce a baby who is a clone of the adult whose stem cell was used. At which point stopping the embryo from developing into a baby, by steering it to grow only into the desired organ or cell type, is no different from stopping any other embryo from developing into ababy, in order to use it for some other purpose. We'd all better get used to it, because this technology will arrive in our lifetimes.
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