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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"
"Reprogramming normal human stem cells into cells with identical properties to those in embryonic stem cells . . . may have important therapeutic ramifications and provide us with another valuable method to develop human stem cell lines," says William Lowry, an assistant professor of molecular, cell and developmental biology, and co-author of the study that appeared Feb. 11 in the online edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences.
The National Institutes of Health say this type of stem cell offers the prospect of having a renewable source of replacement cells and tissues to treat diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, stroke, burns, heart disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, to name a few.
The work of the UCLA team, Yamanaka, Thompson and others may lead to a day when after a heart attack, for example, skin cells from the patient could be similarly manipulated to form muscle cells to repair damage to the heart, or brain cells to repair the effects of Parkinson's. Because they were the patient's own cells, the problem of rejection is solved.
"It's a bit like learning how to turn lead into gold," says Dr. Robert Lanza, a stem cell researcher at Advanced Cell Technology, a Massachusetts-based research firm.
Suppose it isn't as much fun as spending billions to help rationalize abortion.
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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."
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If this breakthrough had happened with ESC's there would be cover stories all over the MSM, but killing babies is so....chic.
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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."
Not really when you stop and think of what time zone the Patriots are located in and realize that most visitors here have jobs that generally require sleeping when this was first posted.
More on topic: I'm glad that science has (probably) found a way to save lives that doesn't offend your invisible man in the sky. Still I have to wonder why y'all were so sure that old grumpy guy in the clouds was so against Embryonic stem cell research? I thought he 'helped' those who helped themselves? Not to mention the old chestnut about how he moves in mysterious ways? Or was that Bono from U2? I can never keep my cults of personality straight. Anyway its good that some little kid stuck in a wheel chair for life now has hope. Lets just hope this is for real and that the delay imposed by the big guy didn't ruin too many lives.
Not really when you stop and think of what time zone the Patriots are located in and realize that most visitors here have jobs that generally require sleeping when this was first posted.
More on topic: I'm glad that science has (probably) found a way to save lives that doesn't offend your invisible man in the sky. Still I have to wonder why y'all were so sure that old grumpy guy in the clouds was so against Embryonic stem cell research? I thought he 'helped' those who helped themselves? Not to mention the old chestnut about how he moves in mysterious ways? Or was that Bono from U2? I can never keep my cults of personality straight. Anyway its good that some little kid stuck in a wheel chair for life now has hope. Lets just hope this is for real and that the delay imposed by the big guy didn't ruin too many lives.
Blaming God for your mistakes is self-defeating, you know. But you can pray to MTV for your answers, if you like. Don't blame God for what happens to you.
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