[ZGuy]

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[r9etb]

scientists at MIT have chemically reprogrammed regular adult cells (like skin cells) in mice

There are a lot of things that can be done with mouse cells that don't transfer to human cells. I'll withold judgement until they can demonstrate the transfer.

[HEY4QDEMS]

If it means they don’t have to destroy babies, the Dems won’t accept it.

[ElkGroveDan]

This will mean nothing to the liberals. They will continue to cling to embryo destruction as a validation of their abortion views. This is an issue that will continue to cause rancor and debate, regardless of what science reveals. They will never let go.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The embryonic stem cell debate was bogus from the beginning. There are many ways to obtain undifferentiated cells. Killing a fetus is just one of them.

The real agenda was to give abortion a false aura of necessity.

[TheDon]

If true, this is great news!

[Cicero]

Any scientific discovery, if used properly, is good news.

But this won’t make a pin’s worth of difference, because the proponents of fetal stem cell research WANT and NEED to kill babies. That’s the whole point. That’s why they insist on fetal stem cells and only fetal stem cells.

Their reasons are obvious.

[Bob]

They express their results with simplicity and confidence: “Our results establish that somatic cells [i.e. normal adult non-reproductive cells] can be reprogrammed to a pluripotent state that is similar, if not identical, to that of normal embryonic stem cells.” They note further, “our results show that the biological potency and epigenetic state of in-vitro-reprogrammed induced pluripotent stem cells are indistinguishable from those of embryonic stem cells”.

Hey guys -- Thanks for the simplicity. I'm sure glad you didn't go for the complicated description. :=)

[not2worry]

Actually stem cells can be created from our own blood. They are doing it now in Israel for the past several years, using your own cells to help congestive heart failure patients rebuild their hearts with their own cells.

The cells are harvested from your own blood, reduced and refined to provide only stem cells. Then injected directly into the heart to rebuild it. I’ve seen several men who have and the procedure done overseas and it is amazing.

Current studies are underway with at the Cleveland Clinic and a heart institute in Houston. A government grant has been give the Cleveland Clinic to start research on qualified CHF patients in September of this year.

[Coleus]

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks neverdem.

[MountainFlower]

it was a “timing” issue....they tried to pull stuff off under the radar, so to speak!! nothing like bringing a bill up for an immediate vote and not giving those voting on it a chance to read it through and understand it. underhanded? yes! true to form of the OTHER side? yes!