Judge blocks federal funding of embryonic stem cell research....

Applications using ASC:

Cancers:

1. Brain Cancer
2. Retinoblastoma
3. Ovarian Cancer
4. Skin Cancer: Merkel Cell Carcinoma
5. Testicular Cancer
6. Tumors abdominal organs Lymphoma
7. Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
8. Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
9. Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
10. Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
11. Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
12. Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia
13. Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia
14. Cancer of the lymph nodes: Angioimmunoblastic Lymphadenopathy
15. Multiple Myeloma
16. Myelodysplasia
17. Breast Cancer
18. Neuroblastoma
19. Renal Cell Carcinoma
20. Various Solid Tumors
21. Soft Tissue Sarcoma
22. Ewing’s Sarcoma
23. Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia
24. Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
25. POEMS syndrome
26. Myelofibrosis

Auto-Immune Diseases

27. Diabetes Type I (Juvenile)
28. Systemic Lupus
29. Sjogren’s Syndrome
30. Myasthenia
31. Autoimmune Cytopenia
32. Scleromyxedema
33. Scleroderma
34. Crohn’s Disease
35. Behcet’s Disease
36. Rheumatoid Arthritis
37. Juvenile Arthritis
38. Multiple Sclerosis
39. Polychondritis
40. Systemic Vasculitis
41. Alopecia Universalis
42. Buerger’s Disease

Cardiovascular

43. Acute Heart Damage
44. Chronic Coronary Artery Disease

Ocular

45. Corneal regeneration

Immunodeficiencies

46. Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Syndrome
47. X-linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome
48. X-linked Hyper immunoglobulin M Syndrome

Neural Degenerative Diseases and Injuries

49. Parkinson’s Disease
50. Spinal Cord Injury
51. Stroke Damage

Anemias and Other Blood Conditions

52. Sickle Cell Anemia
53. Sideroblastic Anemia
54. Aplastic Anemia
55. Red Cell Aplasia
56. Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
57. Thalassemia
58. Primary Amyloidosis
59. Diamond Blackfan Anemia
60. Fanconi’s Anemia
61. Chronic Epstein-Barr Infection

Wounds and Injuries

62. Limb Gangrene
63. Surface Wound Healing
64. Jawbone Replacement
65. Skull Bone Repair

Other Metabolic Disorders

66. Hurler’s Syndrome
67. Osteogenesis Imperfecta
68. Krabbe Leukodystrophy
69. Osteopetrosis
70. Cerebral X-Linked Adrenoleukodystrophy

Liver Disease

71. Chronic Liver Failure
72. Liver Cirrhosis

Bladder Disease

73. End-Stage Bladder Disease

Applications using ESC:

None

 

BECAUSE THERE'S NO FUNDING FOR THIS WORK!


The reason ASC have any research going on with them and ESC do not is because there hasn't been any gov't funding for ESC research!! Not b/c ASC are superior. We'll never know if ESC have any advantage over ASC or USC if we don't get money to work with them and see.

 

If that were my source of income, I'd disagree too.

There are some problems with embryonic stem cells. Simply put, they're so active they are unstable. This has been an issue for years, and in many cases lab animals develop tumors where they're used because their growth isn't easily controllable. Also, there's a "significant" chance of rejection since they come from another "being" and contain different DNA than the new host.

On the other hand, adult stem cells can be harvested from the same person that needs them. They offer less worry about rejection and other adverse effects, but the biggest problem is they're hard to identify, harvest, refine, etc.. and they're usually only harvested in minute numbers. Also, on the opposite side of the spectrum from ES cells, they don't grow as well and are a bit more limited as to the types of tissue they can be used to treat, though as previously posted they're making pretty good progress working with them in many areas.

So to summarize: ES cells have tremendous potential (minus the debate) if they can be controlled, but rejection can be a problem. AS Cells are more controllable and cause less problems with regard to rejection, but despite the long list of applications, they are more limited as to what types of tissue they can be used to repair. So you got one type that can conceivably do just about anything, but they can't figure out how to make them do it. And you've got one that is more limited, but is closer to being a practical treatment on a long list of conditions. This is all just what I've read on the subject so don't go thinking I'm a self-proclaimed expert, because I'm far from it, like the most of you.

I don't really have a dog in this hunt ethically or morally, as I'm pretty neutral to the religious aspects of the subject. I consider myself to be somewhat of an agnostic. I would say if ANY of our federal tax dollars are going to be used on research, then why not dump the money into the one that seems the closest to producing usable results? To me, AS Cells seem to be the more practical of the two choices.

It's like the whole Mars thing.. Sure it's possible to go there in theory, but the Government figures since it's so hard to do, it's not worth spending the money on. So now NASA's priority is something easier like Muslim outreach :huh:.

Perhaps stem cell research isn't a gamble we should be taking at this time either, seeing as the US National debt increased about 250 million in the time it took me to post this.

 

Again, not true. Under Clinton, Bush, and Obama federal funds have been used for research on existing lines of ESC. They did not allow federal funds to be used to destroy an embryo but funding for research on existing stem cells was allowed. States and private donors and corporations also fund ESC research with far less restrictions than those imposed upon federally funded research. You may wish to make an argument for more funding but to say that there is none is inaccurate.

 

I wasn't referring to applications in mice or potential applications. Your second reference was a paper written in 2002 - no way was ESC being used therapeutically that early.

- Adult Stem Cells - Treatments & Therapies List

 

I never said anything about sacred. I said that human life is special and of value. That is why we have laws to protect it. Do you think its ok that the chinese use homeless and poor as organ farms? After all there is nothing special about humans. Just animals.

After destroying it. The good that could come of it is built on the needless destruction of life. Adult and umbilical stem cells can be used alternatively. Why should we use embryonic cells at all.

And yes I surely have a problem with in vitro. It is a disgusting practice.

I get that you think there is some magical point when a bunch of mung magically becomes a person. But whatever that point is, is arbitrary. Breath, independence? Nonsense. Conception is the beginning of life. What I know, and the study of embryology teaches us, is the moment the spem and ovum join a unique and new organism exists. At that point it is not human tissue it is human being. But leftists only care about science when it suits them.

And then those eggs are inseminated. And a new person exists, until its stem cells are sucked out and it is killed.

Like I figured. You can't address the issue.