Do you support stem-cell research ?

[kiwitt]

HIV is cured via stem-cells

Doctors believe an HIV-positive man who underwent a stem cell transplant has been cured as a result of the procedure, the Huffington Post reported.

Timothy Ray Brown, a HIV-positive American living in Germany known as the "Berlin Patient", received the transplant in 2007 as part of a lengthy treatment course for leukemia.

His doctors recently published a report in the journal Blood affirming that the results of extensive testing "strongly suggest that cure of HIV infection has been achieved."

Brown's case paves a path for constructing a permanent cure for HIV through genetically-engineered stem cells.

I could never understand why was it banned in the USA ?

 

[Askthepizzaguy]

There is no logical reason to ban stem cell research.

 

[cardgame]

I am strongly inclined to concur with askthepizzaguy.

 

[Karalysia]

Yes and it deserves government funding also.

 

[Camikaze]

I absolutely support stem cell research, for religious reasons. My religion tells me that we should do whatever we can to improve the human condition. It would be immoral to not pursue a research path with such a great potential for the achievement of that goal.

Religious reaction pre-empted.

 

[dannyshenanigan]

I just read that scientists have just grown the first human hair follicle from stem cells; so as a balding person I selfishly support it.

 

[Luckymoose]

Yes I do. Because I know what stem cells are and don't believe the right wing media on the issue.

 

[civ_king]

HIV is cured via stem-cells


I could never understand why was it banned in the USA ?

Embryonic Stem Cell research was banned, Adult Stem Cell research was never banned. FYI Adult Stem Cell research has been more productive

you must clarify between Embryonic Stem Cell research and Adult Stem Cell research

I oppose Embryonic Stem Cell research and fully support Adult Stem Cell research

 

[Cutlass]

I could never understand why was it banned in the USA ?

The reason research was banned was because of politics. The far right knows that it must lie in order to win elections. And the bigger the lie, the better it works. so what they do is hit on these hot button issues and make a big deal out of them in order to whip up the right wing base into a frothing at the mouth rage. They need new issues from time to time. So one of them that they decided to make up massive lies about to serve their purpose was that stem cell research killed babies.

Tell a lie, make it big, tell it again, and again, and again, and you can make the weak minded and ignorant believe it.

And that is the whole of the reasoning behind opposing stem cells.

 

[Karalysia]

It wasn't banned if I recall correctly, W ended federal funding of it.

 

[civver_764]

You're an idiot if you oppose it.

 

[Cutlass]

No, that wasn't an absolute ban. But in practice, it worked out that way. Because they made it too expensive as well as removing most of the funding. A laboratory that did any federally funded research could not do any stem cell research, unless they 100% segregated the costs. And that just wasn't practical for most of them.

 

[KMRblue1027]

It wasn't banned if I recall correctly, W ended federal funding of it.

You are exactly right

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

So for people without leukemia and with HIV...irradiation of bone marrow, let remaining helper T's die, then do the transplant. Rough treatment, but worth it for an AIDS cure. Still, I'd want to hear of the followup first.

 

[Mango Elephant]

I really can't see how someone can be oposed to it. It helps people, for god's sake. Not to mention you can extract stem cells from umbilical cord blood, too.

 

[Karalysia]

So for people without leukemia and with HIV...irradiation of bone marrow, let remaining helper T's die, then do the transplant. Rough treatment, but worth it for an AIDS cure. Still, I'd want to hear of the followup first.

It's not as practical as it sounds. Bone marrow transplant is risky, and rare. And I believe expensive. It's not warranted except in particularly special cases. It's not a real cure to HIV.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

FYI Adult Stem Cell research has been more productive

Citation or it didn't happen.

 

[Moss]

I am pleasantly surprised no one has voted no. I'm with everyone else, I see no logical reason for opposing stem cell use in medical research.

 

[Cutlass]

Citation or it didn't happen.

I think that, in the absence of embryonic stem cell research, adult stem cell research has been somewhat productive. But that does not mean that ESCs wouldn't have been more productive had the research not been restricted.

 

[Whiskey_Lord]

Looks like we got a 'no' vote. Get the torches.