Babies in stem cell probe

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Incidentally, I wonder how the "Flourishing international trade in stem cells" compares to the clearly flourishing international trade in human organs and body parts for transplant.

TV host Cooke's body

plundered by ghouls

By WILLIAM SHERMAN

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

The ghoulish body parts for sale ring stole the bones of "Masterpiece Theatre" host Alistair Cooke just before he was cremated, the Daily News has learned.

The celebrated broadcaster and actor died March 30, 2004, of lung cancer that spread to his bones.

The next day, without permission of any family members, body snatchers surgically carved out the 95-year-old's diseased bones.

The bones were sold for more than $7,000 to two tissue processing companies for eventual transplant procedures, sources told The News.

"I hope those guys burn in hell for what they did," said longtime Cooke family attorney David Grossberg.

The alleged leader of the body-snatching ring is Michael Mastromarino, whose operations are under investigation by the Brooklyn district attorney's office.

Mastromarino ran Biomedical Tissue Services Ltd., a tremendously profitable tissue recovery business that sold body parts, including bone, skin and cardiac valves.

After processing, Cooke's bones could have been used for dental implants or numerous orthopedic procedures including dowels for damaged spines.

Cooke's remains were sold by Mastromarino to processing companies Regeneration Technologies Inc., of Alachua, Fla., and Tutogen Medical Inc., of Paterson, N.J.

A spokesman for Tutogen did not return a telephone call. A spokesman for Regeneration Technologies had no comment.

But Cooke's daughter, Susan Kittredge, who learned what happened to her father only last week, told The News she was "shocked and saddened that following his death, parts of his body were illegally sold for transplant."

"That people in need of healing should have received his body parts, considering his age and the fact that he was ill when he died, is as appalling to the family as is that his remains were violated," she said.

The use of cancerous bone for transplant is a violation of Food and Drug Administration regulations and the use of body parts from the aged also is against transplant protocol.

But in paperwork given the two processing companies, Mastromarino allegedly changed Cooke's "cause of death" to heart attack and changed his age from 95 to 85, according to sources.

Mastromarino, along with his former partner Joseph Nicelli, an embalmer, are being probed for allegedly forging hundreds of such records in their business, which ran from 2000 until October 2005, when The News first disclosed the details of the Brooklyn probe.

Mastromarino routinely paid funeral directors for each corpse provided to his company.

Cooke's corpse was picked up at his Fifth Ave. home by the New York Mortuary Services Inc., a private funeral home at 2242 First Ave. Kittredge said she got what she believed to be her father's ashes two days later.

Timothy O'Brien, head of New York Mortuary Services did not return calls. His attorney had no comment.

Originally published on December 22, 2005

I wonder who is profiting from the bones of a 95 year old man...

TV host Cooke's body plundered by ghouls

In New York, a Grisly Traffic in Body Parts

Edited December 14, 2006 by erekose

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The main point is that these are babies. They are not just genetic trash being recycled. And people who think that they are discarding "material" have been misinformed. When people who go to these reproductive labs, they pick and choose which one of their children is going to live or die.

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The main point is that these are babies. They are not just genetic trash being recycled. And people who think that they are discarding "material" have been misinformed. When people who go to these reproductive labs, they pick and choose which one of their children is going to live or die.

I think you'll find a lot of people don't believe an embryo is a baby.

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It would still have 4 legs, because a tail can never be a leg no matter what you call it.

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That's so deep.

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That's so deep.

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The main point is that these are babies. They are not just genetic trash being recycled. And people who think that they are discarding "material" have been misinformed. When people who go to these reproductive labs, they pick and choose which one of their children is going to live or die.

Once again, stem cell research 101:

Embryonic stem cells cannot be found in a fully developed human being. They are found in the umbilical cord (not a human being) or in a fetus (not a human being, though that's debatable) or in a human embyro (also not a human being). In order to do in vitro fertilization, many embryos are created and then frozen. One by one they are implanted until pregnancy occurs. The remaining, unused embryos are then typically discarded. The big fight is over these embryos: scientists want to do research on the stem cells of these embryos. Religious conservatives say this is unethical, because you're destroying an embryo, which to them is a human life.

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The main point is that these are babies. They are not just genetic trash being recycled. And people who think that they are discarding "material" have been misinformed. When people who go to these reproductive labs, they pick and choose which one of their children is going to live or die.

Once again, stem cell research 101:

Embryonic stem cells cannot be found in a fully developed human being. They are found in the umbilical cord (not a human being) or in a fetus (not a human being, though that's debatable) or in a human embyro (also not a human being). In order to do in vitro fertilization, many embryos are created and then frozen. One by one they are implanted until pregnancy occurs. The remaining, unused embryos are then typically discarded. The big fight is over these embryos: scientists want to do research on the stem cells of these embryos. Religious conservatives say this is unethical, because you're destroying an embryo, which to them is a human life.

Just adding one thing: they can also be found in the bone marrow. Those stem cells are already being used to treat leukemia.

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Now THAT is deep...

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The main point is that these are babies. They are not just genetic trash being recycled. And people who think that they are discarding "material" have been misinformed. When people who go to these reproductive labs, they pick and choose which one of their children is going to live or die.

The only way those embryos will become babies is if someone chooses to become a surrogate mother, or in the next to nil chance that someone should somehow legislates for "forced implantation".

What's next - how about the church starts guilt-tripping men about the evils of masturbation, because their "spilled seed" could potentially fertilise an egg. Actually that's not too far from the truth - with the whole "sex is evil and dirty" approach, which no doubt is one of the reasons that so many people have deep psychological hang-ups about it.

Edited December 15, 2006 by erekose

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The only way those embryos will become babies is if someone chooses to become a surrogate mother, or in the next to nil chance that someone should somehow legislates for "forced implantation".

What's next - how about the church starts guilt-tripping men about the evils of masturbation, because their "spilled seed" could potentially fertilise an egg. Actually that's not too far from the truth - with the whole "sex is evil and dirty" approach, which no doubt is one of the reasons that so many people have deep psychological hang-ups about it.

so that is why you're going to hell

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It's coming from the BBC now, folks.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46476

[payxibka 10,047]

It's coming from the BBC now, folks.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46476

Hello? The BBC has always been the source....

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Even if Ukraine was a first world country, I wouldn't think that this ghoulishness is at all representative of the methods of stem cell / genetic research groups.