Posted on 07/09/2009 2:52:11 PM PDT by pissant
GE Healthcare, the medical research subsidiary of General Electric, has formed a partnership with a leading U.S. biotech company to develop products based on human embryonic stem cells that can be used to develop new drugs.
On June 30, GE Healthcare and Geron Corporation announced a multi-year alliance where Geron will provide GE scientists with an undisclosed amount of human embryonic stem cells.
The human cells will be used “to develop and commercialize cellular assay products derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) for use in drug discovery, development and toxicity screening,” according to a news release.
GE Healthcare, which is based in Britain, hopes that human embryonic testing will spare lab rats from having potentially toxic drugs in or on the animals.
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Aren't they looking into AUTISM being caused from Emb. STem Cells used in Vaccines, now????
Next it will be frozen embryos, then....
Humanity merely has utilitarian value.
As the Pope touched on in his encyclical, this is Exhibit A of man’s idea of human development divorced from any relationship with God and Truth. This slippery slope is ends in our enslavement.
I believe Drudge had a story up about researchers creating sperm using embryonic stem cells. If no one sees the tragic irony of killing some people to engineer the means of creating others, then I give up entirely.
I would so prefer they use politicians...
GE has found another way to lose money.
I sometimes think someone is bound and determined to make my parent’s legacy worthless by the time I see it.
This just breaks my heart......
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