Posted on 10/04/2006 2:28:11 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
To the dismay of some advocates for the disabled and sick, a draft report issued today by California's $3 billion stem-cell institute says the agency is unlikely to develop cures for diseases or other ailments any time soon.
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine's proposed strategic plan, written by a group that included two Nobel scientists, methodically sets out a detailed blueprint for eventually turning stem cells into treatments for a variety of health problems.
But the plan -- which must be approved by the institute's board -- cautions that stem cell science remains in its infancy and that much of the agency's time, energy and money will be consumed trying to understand the cells' basic biology. Consequently, the plan concludes, the institute will still be doing early-stage studies on potential treatments by the time its money runs out in about 10 years.
Zach Hall, the institute's president, said he and others who developed the plan were extremely careful about wording it so it set obtainable goals that didn't unrealistically raise the public's hopes.
``One of the points really is to try to educate people about what a long process it is to get any `therapeutic' approved,'' said Hall, who predicted it might take 15 years before the institute's research results in a medical product.
Given the political sensitivity surrounding human embryonic stem cells, which are the institute's main focus, he added, it is essential that the agency avoids rushing to commercialize a treatment that later turns out to be unsafe.
``That would set the whole field back,'' he said.
But others found the plan's cautious approach disheartening.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Adult stem cell treatments in testing = 700+
Embryonic stem cell treatments in testing = 0
Time to end the embryonic stem cell scientific welfare.
BUT ,But, but John Kerry said we could cure Christopher Reeve by now !!!!
Never mind. While we wait--and wait, and wait--they can pig out on the taxpayer's dollar while they kill more babies.
New "Treatments" is not the aim of government funding for embryonic/foetal stem cell research. If there were any real promise of "cures" and "treatments" private money will be all over it. The whole point of it is to establish the Government as being in the business of deciding that some people or a whole class of people are to be condemned to die for the benefit of other, government approved, people. It is to elevate the Government to a position of deciding who is worthy to live in this society and who is unworthy and should be killed. This has always been the aim of the Left for their Brave Bew World. The DDT ban is another piece in the same game.
Surprise, suprise!
When we get Government Funding for embryonic stem cell research, Steve Reeve WILL walk again. Or was he cremated? That would take a whole lot more government funding.
Sounds about right.
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