obama to lift stem cell funding ban?

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Bad idea. This will only embolden the terrorist muslim socialist abortionist enemies of America.

bless obama///

we got one of our in the white house

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Bad idea. This will only embolden the terrorist muslim socialist abortionist enemies of America.

Obama is an IDIOT! It really wouldn't surprise me if he decided to have make 100 more just like him!!! But does that mean we'd need 100 more Michelles too?! AHHHHH!!! I did it! I named "She who should not be named!" I'm in trouble now! Have a good night kids!

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About freaking time! Other forms of stem cells have partially differentiated and therefore don't hold the same regenerative capabilities. The whole argument against it makes no sense either. We have SO many embryos formed for in vitro that are never used and discarded. So it's better to flush a couple of cells that could become a human than using them for research and eventually to live on in a human? Creating an embryo for research purposes I can see an ethical dilema, but not using ones that aren't viable and will be discarded.

I frequently receive stem cell preparations here in lab to test for insulin biosynthesis as a cell-replacement therapy alternative. Most are adult blood monocyte-derived or umbilical cord. Can't wait to get actual embryonic cells because yes- I think the #1 problem researchers face in this field is getting the cells, be it from actual lines with mixed phenotypes or from adult blood/etc, to de-differentiate to pluripotent state so then they can be pushed into differentiating into pancreatic beta-cells fate with transcription factor cocktails.

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About freaking time! Other forms of stem cells have partially differentiated and therefore don't hold the same regenerative capabilities. The whole argument against it makes no sense either. We have SO many embryos formed for in vitro that are never used and discarded. So it's better to flush a couple of cells that could become a human than using them for research and eventually to live on in a human? Creating an embryo for research purposes I can see an ethical dilema, but not using ones that aren't viable and will be discarded.

I frequently receive stem cell preparations here in lab to test for insulin biosynthesis as a cell-replacement therapy alternative. Most are adult blood monocyte-derived or umbilical cord. Can't wait to get actual embryonic cells because yes- I think the #1 problem researchers face in this field is getting the cells, be it from actual lines with mixed phenotypes or from adult blood/etc, to de-differentiate to pluripotent state so then they can be pushed into differentiating into pancreatic beta-cells fate with transcription factor cocktails.

you might as well be speakin' in tongues, son. i bet all that is is a bunch of sciency jibba-jibba meant to hoodwink god fearing folk and hide the fact that you're a socialist abortionist intent on destroying america!

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About freaking time! Other forms of stem cells have partially differentiated and therefore don't hold the same regenerative capabilities. The whole argument against it makes no sense either. We have SO many embryos formed for in vitro that are never used and discarded. So it's better to flush a couple of cells that could become a human than using them for research and eventually to live on in a human? Creating an embryo for research purposes I can see an ethical dilema, but not using ones that aren't viable and will be discarded.

Catholic Answers Action disagrees:

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Ugh, w/e. They are wrong, recent scientific research shows that adult stem cells lack the plasticity of embryonic. I don't care what random youtube things says (not that you believe it, but you know what I mean) but in dealing with these embryos we have 2 options. 1) they sit in a freezer or are destroyed ending any possible life that could have come from that embryo. 2) Use the stem cells in another human being where both the cells grow and AREN'T destroyed AND the recipient continues on living hopefully what is a more healthful life. Besides, most embryos that are created aren't viable and won't implant. What the heck can anyone find wrong about using those? UGH, people need to stop getting in their own way! They need to find a real problem to worry about.

You're hoping the embryos will be kosher???

Dude, we're not talking about eating them!

Are we?

Mmm stem cells, num num num

Oh but once the differentiation cascade can be reproduced viably without teratogenic side effects we will be able to conduct real-life clinical case studies. This I've seen in about 80% of most cases thus far in rodent studies with human donor tissue derived from all 3 sources (adult sources/embryonic/umbilical tissue). There hasn't been all that much success overseas where American scientists have been going to to avoid the fundamentalist imposition on science in this country.

Hopefully Obama WILL reverse that trend and back it up with actual funding that is at this time, ironically going at this point to the industry of death in the Middle East.

All I know is there are people, including myself that has a child with an incurable genetic disease with the only hope that stem cell research may be the answer. And if we as Americans don't do it, other countries will and get the patents on it. And hold us hostage for the cures. Wish that GWB had such a child, mabe then he wouldn't be a pius a$hole. What, our researchers are killing people in this act? GWB sure is, with his lies.

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About freaking time! Other forms of stem cells have partially differentiated and therefore don't hold the same regenerative capabilities. The whole argument against it makes no sense either. We have SO many embryos formed for in vitro that are never used and discarded. So it's better to flush a couple of cells that could become a human than using them for research and eventually to live on in a human? Creating an embryo for research purposes I can see an ethical dilema, but not using ones that aren't viable and will be discarded.

I frequently receive stem cell preparations here in lab to test for insulin biosynthesis as a cell-replacement therapy alternative. Most are adult blood monocyte-derived or umbilical cord. Can't wait to get actual embryonic cells because yes- I think the #1 problem researchers face in this field is getting the cells, be it from actual lines with mixed phenotypes or from adult blood/etc, to de-differentiate to pluripotent state so then they can be pushed into differentiating into pancreatic beta-cells fate with transcription factor cocktails.

you might as well be speakin' in tongues, son. i bet all that is is a bunch of sciency jibba-jibba meant to hoodwink god fearing folk and hide the fact that you're a socialist abortionist intent on destroying america!

It was intended to go to msu17

But for the lay person-

Vocabulary:

Differentiated stem cell = stem cell that has become a type of cell that expresses a fate of a tissue type (e.g., neuron, heart muscle, bone, skin, etc).

Phenotype = the fate expressed (e.g a skin cell can't act like a stomach cell)

Pluripontet = You can enter different cell fates in a forward direction instead of having to go back to an 'earlier' state.

Concept:

Adult stem cell (partially differentiated) is harvested -> induced to de-differentiate (go back to undifferentiated state) -> and then induced to enter a cell fate program of development into a target cell type with the right combination of proteins that 'order' the cell's DNA to turn on/off certain genes.

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You said a lot of words there but all I heard was "I hate Jesus and America, too"

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You said a lot of words there but all I heard was "I hate Jesus and America, too"

*COMPUTERIZED LOL*