Sunday, April 01, 2007

Adult Stem Cells: 50342, Embryonic: 0

Adult stem cells have once again shown potential in creating a heart valve. This brings the score to Adult stem cells 50,342 to embryonic stem cells 0. Adult stem cells are taken from bone marrow. Embryonic stem cells are derived from mashing up a fetus. To date, embryonic stem cellsjavascript:void(0)
Publish have not produced a benefit to anything, but there are those who keep supporting it in a way to justify abortion.

Proponents of embryonic stem cell research like to blur the lines between the two. They like to pretend that opponents of embryonic stem cell research do not like all stem cell research. They dupe those who are vulnerable (i.e., Michael J Fox) to believe that a cure is just around the corner if only those evil conservatives would let them mash up a few more babies.


A British research team led by the world's leading heart surgeon has grown part of a human heart from stem cells for the first time. If animal trials scheduled for later this year prove successful, replacement tissue could be used in transplants for the hundreds of thousands of people suffering from heart disease within three years...

By using chemical and physical nudges, the scientists first coaxed stem cells extracted from bone marrow to grow into heart valve cells. By placing these cells into scaffolds made of collagen, Dr Chester and his colleague Patricia Taylor then grew small 3cm-wide discs of heart valve tissue. Later this year, that tissue will be implanted into animals - probably sheep or pigs - and monitored to see how well it works as part of a circulatory system.

2 comments:

Sam said...

Right on the money.

By the way? I was wondering where you got the 50342 figure? Or is that a made up number to illustrate your point? I'd like to see a listing of all documented adult stem cell successes.

Zek said...

Just a made up number. The report doesn't even mention that they are adult stem cells. One would have to know that cells from bone marrow are adult stem cells.

I bet that if embroynic stem cells did ever accomplish anything, you would never here the end of the news stories on it.