Stem cell research breakthrough!!

[thenooblet22]

I was describing it from her point of view. The way I see it, denying the progression of stem cell research is like denying the thousands of lives that could have been saved.

Indeed. I maybe wouldn't say murder, but I would say it seems morally reprehensible to deny such possibilities.

Yeah, you quoted be before I got to edit that

 

[Stylesjl]

I was describing it from her point of view. The way I see it, denying the progression of stem cell research is like denying the thousands of lives that could have been saved.

Civgeneral is a male

And, I think this is quite promising, although, I think that the 10 year thing is little too optomistic

 

[Brighteye]

Everyone's jumped on CivGeneral for saying that embryonic stem cell research is bad, but has anyone actually noticed that his statement was irrelevant anyway, since these seem to be adult stem cells?

 

[Stylesjl]

Everyone's jumped on CivGeneral for saying that embryonic stem cell research is bad, but has anyone actually noticed that his statement was irrelevant anyway, since these seem to be adult stem cells?

But its still fun to jump on someone who we strongly disagree with

 

[classical_hero]

It seems theyve succeeded in growing part of a human heart from stem cells!
Lets pour more money into this! Screw morals! The babies are already aborted anyway.

Don't be so fast, because they did not say what type of stem cells they got them from. There are more than one type of stem cells.

 

[Keshik]

The article doesn't say embryonic stem cells anywhere.

 

[thenooblet22]

Civgeneral is a male

Ah, I just assumed because of the avatars and for some other reasons...

 

[El_Machinae]

This is only a valve, which is not a very complicated piece of body. It is important, however, mainly because it's not a mechanical or an animal valve (which also seem to do rather well). They need to work a bit more in order to get the valve to the state where the body will maintain and repair it, though. Still, it's quite an interesting breakthrough; this whole scaffolding concept is paying dividends.

People should still take excellent care of their bodies. Firstly, while some people have valve problems with their heart, the majority of people (who abuse their bodies) do not - so the abuse is unlikely to be repaired with this technology. As well, everyone will likely (eventually) need some variant of this technology, but delaying your need is still the best strategy.

This research, specifically, did not use ESC, but they surely used data received from ESC studies. Eventually we'll want cloned cells anyway.