stem cell research

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I would appreciate both sides to this debate. I would say one side is it should not be done because you are taking a potential life? Thanks

 

[Tensyle]

I would appreciate both sides to this debate. I would say one side is it should not be done because you are taking a potential life? Thanks

but the potential FOR life is much larger...

 

[Sol Rosenberg]

Depends upon what you consider a "potential life." One of the last (perhaps THE last) bills to be vetoed called for funding for research using embryonic stem cells derived from "excess" embyros from fertility clinics (embryos that would normally be discarded anyway.) I believe previous attempts have sought to use cells taken from aborted fetuses.

Personally, I don't think that an aborted fetus or a discarded embryo has much potential for life, but I imagine that there are those that disagree. 🙄

 

[Doc driven]

thanks for your opinions

 

[Faebinder]

Also depends on what you consider a life.... if it doesnt have a beating heart can you even call it a human life? Cause if you will just toss the word life, we can call a colony of bacteria "life". What is life? Answer that question and we can answer the dumb debate of stem cell research and abortions.

 

[inkare]

What do they usually ask about stem cell research on interviews ? I looked up the issue and apparently the fertility clinics can either discard the cells or actually use it for science. How is discarding it better than using it for science for those who are pro-life?

Also, would the new human skin cell method, which functions like embryonic stem cells, affect the controversy ?

Thanks for your thoughts.

 

[asuhdds]

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1944796.htm
SKIN CELLS TRANSFORMED INTO STEM CELLS

Read the article, this breakthrough has essentially allowed a pathway to completely bypass the controversy and make any current arguments against largely irrelevant. Oh, the glories of science 😀.

 

[Leiflet]

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1944796.htm
SKIN CELLS TRANSFORMED INTO STEM CELLS

Read the article, this breakthrough has essentially allowed a pathway to completely bypass the controversy and make any current arguments against largely irrelevant. Oh, the glories of science 😀.

This research is phenomenal--does it mean we can use it to cure disease? Yes, it would if you wanted a virus punching genes into fairly random locations. The genes they introduced are not under native control so its not safe to use these modified lines in patients.
I work in a molecular genetics lab and I can tell you that it's easier to walk on the moon than it is to turn on a gene without messing something up. Until we can do that embryonic cells are still superior. Of course if people stop circumcising their sons we'll run short on the human foreskin tissue currently used to grow the few cell lines you can put in a person without them thinking you shoved a mouse under their skin.
Bottom line: if you want to cure disease, make rational decisions, not biblical ones. Don't pray in my lab and I won't think in your church.

 

[tibor75]

This topic really exposed the ignorance and stupidity of the right wing religious movement in this country.

We can't use stem cells from embryos!! It's murder. It's abortion!

Well, if you believe that, then you should protest in vitro clinics and fertility clinics. Right? Right?

Why don't the right wingers advocate the shutting down of fertility clinics? Gee, I wonder? because it would be political suicide.

No right winger would ever go against their precious "family values" and admit that fertility clinics "kill" more "living things" than abortion clinics ever do.

 

[167649]

What do they usually ask about stem cell research on interviews ? I looked up the issue and apparently the fertility clinics can either discard the cells or actually use it for science. How is discarding it better than using it for science for those who are pro-life?

Also, would the new human skin cell method, which functions like embryonic stem cells, affect the controversy ?

Thanks for your thoughts.

Those who are blindly herded into the "pro-life" agenda often fail to realize what actually happends to those embryos should they not be used for funded science. They literally flush them down the toilet.