Posted on 02/20/2008 5:38:43 AM PST by Kaslin
Bioethics: UCLA scientists have reprogrammed human skin cells into cells with the same unlimited properties as embryonic stem cells. The process doesn't use human eggs or destroy human embryos, so you may not have heard of it.
The reprogrammed cells, known as "induced pluripotent stem cells," genetically matched to the donor, can be used to grow tissues for future use in tissue replacement therapies, including a range of things from regeneration of damaged heart tissue to Parkinson's to spinal-cord injury.
The discovery potentially provides a virtually unlimited supply of embryonic stem cells without the moral baggage of or need to use human embryos, cloning or human eggs. It also takes such research out of the political arena back into the realm of science where it belongs.
"Our reprogrammed human skin cells were virtually undistinguishable from human embryonic stem cells," said Kethrin Plathm, assistant professor of biological chemistry and lead author of the study. "Our findings are an important step towards manipulating differentiated human cells to generate an unlimited supply of patient specific pluripotent stem cells"
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
It doesn't justify abortion, so they see nothing to celebrate. Which means Ron Reagan, Jr., and his cohorts are nothing but opportunistic liars when they say they "care about people".
Where’s the stem celebration?
The use of embryonic stem cells was never about curing people. It was about undermining the morality of the pro-life movement. The mainstream media is about as happy over this as concentration camp guards would be about finding out that Jews can boost the economy by working in the arts, management, etc.
Indeed, it doesn’t
Paging Marty McFly.
Once again for Liberals, good news for the US (and humanity in this case) is disastrous news for them. Even worse, stem cells may help doctors regrow blown off limbs of wounded soldiers so they can lead normal lives back home and possibly...GASP!...return to their units!
The Left’s advocacy for Embryonic Stem Cell research was nothing other than a mechanism to shift the ground of the Abortion debate to the opposite end of the gestational spectrum, after years of having their butts kicked over Partial Birth Abortion. This attempt has been largely successful.
They don’t give a damn about cures.
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