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EMBRYONIC STEM CELL research = HUMAN CLONING!
EMBRYONIC STEM CELL research = HUMAN CLONING!
Posted on 11/16/2006 7:41:25 PM PST by neverdem
My niece died at the age of 10 from Werner Hoffman, a form of MD. I never knew dogs got it.
Such omissions are deliberate lies. The fact that this was the noncontroversial type of research that is far more succesful--and they left it out. Its just B.S.
Shoulda been in the headline (the real one, editor hiding a significant detail).
"Such omissions are deliberate lies. The fact that this was the noncontroversial type of research that is far more succesful--and they left it out. Its just B.S."
It's too soon after the Michael J. Fox hoopla. They don't feel like eating crow.
Thanks for the link & history.
Equine vets are using stem cells from the animal's own fat to re-generate and repair tendon and ligament tissue on horses who have sustained these injuries. I'm looking into this procedure now for my horse!
This recounts two attempted therapies, a succesful one with autologous stem cells, and one with poor success using genetically manipulated donor stem cells.
Yet the word autologous, and the word adult, do not appear in this article. This may account for the MSM playing this story as an embryonic stem cell case -- their "science" reporters may be so poorly educated as to not know the difference, and they have the template all ready. (Dim, but brilliantly coiffed....)
However, another MSM technique is also at play... and it may also have been used by the authors of this study! It is to avoid detailed discussion of the source of the stem cells, and to deliberately elide the difference between autologous and umbilical stem cells (which have been very successful) and embryonic stem cells (which, despite much research, are still at a stage wherein they are unsafe for human trials).
But yes, for anyone asking -- this is an adult cell, non-destructive therapy.
The article also contains an outright false statement: that stem cells have not been used therapeutically. According to science (and war) correspondent Michael Fumento, "for the last few years persons suffering from limited vision or outright blindness from corneal defects have had their vision restored through corneal stem cell transplants."
Fumento links to this site:
http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1031002392.html
And his own post (with more info about stem cell therapies) is here:
http://www.fumento.com/weblog/archives/2006/11/election_wont_h.html
Be sure to find his index of stem cell posts and articles. He has written prolifically on the subject.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Good luck to you and your animal.
In addition to these animal therapies, there are over a thousand clinical trials underway of stem cell therapies at this moment.
Every stankin' one of them from adult stem cells of one kind or the other.
The reason that the press and the Dems promote ESCs is not because they want to do what ESCs can do (which is cause massive teratomas, so far). It's because they want abortion clinics to have a market for what is now waste that they must pay to dispose of.
While Planned Parenthood is a non-profit organization (although one that pays its leaders VERY well), its abortion clinics are often for-profit arrangements. IMHO this is all about giving them a new product line.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Good catch! I'm so used to seeing the term "stem cells" used haphazardly, I do it sometimes myself, that I just assumed that she was referring to embryonic stem cells.
"Stem cells have been touted as the way to regenerate numerous failing tissues — but none have yet become tried-and-tested human treatments."
Thanks for the links.
In one animal, the cells were released from a catheter into the aorta — the vessel leaving the heart that supplies the body with blood. This therefore allowed more widespread dissemination of the mesoangioblasts. The results of the stem-cell infusions were dramatic: this last animal displayed a marked improvement in its dystrophy and was walking well 5 months after the final injection; the other animals recovered to a lesser degree. In general, dogs receiving donor cells improved more than those receiving corrected autologous mesoangioblasts. Some muscles in the injected dogs had nearly normal levels of dystrophin, and even the muscles with only moderate levels of dystrophin showed significantly improved structure and function (Fig. 1).
At that LifeEthics posting I that I linked to earlier, there's the information that the first discovery on the benefit of (adult) stem cell therapy in Muscular Dystrophy came 1998when doctors discovered that a boy who had had a bone marrow stem cells transplant actually also had an unusually mild form of MD. It seems that his MD had been partially treated by the bone marrow transplant he'd received as a baby to cure his Severe Combined Immune Deficiency ("bubble boy" disease). Now, umbilical cord bone marrow transplants are done to treat the disease, but they have a huge risk compared to what we hope this (possibly autologous) specific stem cell infusion treatment would have.
(My grand daughter had an umbilical cord blood transplant in 2001, for a different kind of congenital immune dysfunction and bone marrow failure - her risk of rejection was very low when you add in the fact that she had no immune system to speak of to begin with and UCBlood has 1/4 the risk of graft vs. host that bone marrow stem cells carry. She is beautiful and healthy and 6 years old, now - we took her to the Spurs last night for the first time and she got to be on the jumbotron - of course, she, like her "G-dad" (granddad) was more interested in the Silver Dancers than I'd like.)
The search for "stem cells" plus Muscular Dystrophy on Google or Google News would have made the reporters much more informed on the history and benefits of non-embryonic stem cells in treating these diseases.
Adult stem cells enjoy another success.
Thanks for the clarification -- I guess I just scanned that part (bad habit I have) .
So thankful your granddaughter is doing well!
Jerry's Dogs?
Yes! Exactly. But then people might think...
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