With which of the following opinions regarding embryonic stem
cell research do you agree more?
Adult stem
cell research does take place at Georgetown, in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, in addition to groundbreaking stem - like cell research in the Center for Cell Reprogramming.
University of Wisconsin scientist, James A. Thomson, who first derived ESCs from embryos, has said «if human embryonic stem
cell research does not make you at least a little bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough.»
Wicker, no political naïf, brought out the big rhetorical ammo, reminding the senators that it was Jamie Thomson, the University of Wisconsin scientist who first reported isolating the cells in 1998, who said: «If human embryonic stem
cell research does not make you at least a bit uncomfortable, you have not thought about it enough.»
Heaven forfend the U.S. be left behind in a post about religion and politics: Obama's move to lift the ban of federal funding of embryonic stem cell research didn't sit well with several U.S. states, which have now passed or are considering legislation to outlaw some forms of the work.
Not exact matches
His
research shows that in cases of hearing loss, the ear's nerve fibers become damaged before the hair
cells do, and when those synaptic fibers reconnect to the hair
cells, it's possible to regain hearing.
What
do you think of President Obama's decision to increase federal dollars for embryonic stem
cell research?
This statement is in sharp contrast to the statements of analysts at IHS Markit and GTM
Research that new
cell and module factories in the United States
do not make economic sense despite the imposition of tariffs on imported modules.
According to Science Daily, Dr. Nagy, senior investigator at the Samuel Lunenfeld
Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, there is a «new method of generating stem
cells that
does not require embryos as starting points and could be used to generate
cells from many adult tissues such as a patient's own skin
cells.»
Do you know the mathematical impossibility that even one of these could randomly come into existance?Let alone all of the building blocks required for just a single simple cell to come together to form any type of living thing?There sure should be some blobs of fossilized transitions if evolution could happen.You people are real smart why don't you quit bashing Christians and quit believing the garbage you have been fed, and look up the evidence put forth by the Creation Research people.They have in fact proven creation down to a cellular level.Unlike evolution scientists who have no answers, but cleverly devised fables.Evolution is not even a very good fairy tale.Even if I didn't believe in God, Evolution is such a fools explanation of the origin of man that it takes just that to even consider it true.I understand though that you athiests will believe anything that allows you to love your sin and hatred of the one true Go
Do you know the mathematical impossibility that even one of these could randomly come into existance?Let alone all of the building blocks required for just a single simple
cell to come together to form any type of living thing?There sure should be some blobs of fossilized transitions if evolution could happen.You people are real smart why don't you quit bashing Christians and quit believing the garbage you have been fed, and look up the evidence put forth by the Creation
Research people.They have in fact proven creation down to a cellular level.Unlike evolution scientists who have no answers, but cleverly devised fables.Evolution is not even a very good fairy tale.Even if I didn't believe in God, Evolution is such a fools explanation of the origin of man that it takes just that to even consider it true.I understand though that you athiests will believe anything that allows you to love your sin and hatred of the one true God.
What
do the Seer Stones of the Mormon faith say about stem
cell research or a woman's access to birth control?
The fundamental impediment to our acceptance of embryonic stem
cell research has to
do with destruction of the human embryo.
In the time of all this fighting we've had [over embryonic stem -
cell research]-- which
did slow down this [adult stem -
cell]
research — in the last year we've advanced ten years.»
• President Obama
did not go half far enough in lifting the ban against federal funding for embryonic stem -
cell research.
Why
did nt the faculty at Notre Dame object to Obama getting an HOnorary Doctorate when he openly support abortion and stem
cell research from embryos?
By redefining the term they were attempting to backdoor their way into going after abortion rights, stem
cell research, and anything having to
do with little
cells of «persons» living inside one big person.
But even as he
does so, the underlying science may well move the politics of stem -
cell research in the other direction.
Much more needs to be
done to alert the public to the treatment successes obtained through the use of adult stem -
cell research.
As for stem
cell research, I don't think you understand the reach of these big drug companies.
Now, if we are not going to outlaw abortion, and the doctors / scientists want to take the aborted fetus and
do stem
cell research on it, well the damage is
done and we might as well get all that we can out of it.
Recombinant DNA
research has been
done primarily on bacteria, one -
celled organisms smaller than animal or plant
cells and simpler in structure, yet capable of very complex chemical activity.
Just don't try telling me tomorrow you are for gay rights and embryonic stem
cell research and we'll both be consistent
Those who believe these nonsensical ideas
DO hold the rest back - be it in creationist ideas about biology, or stem
cell research, or limiting over-population via contraception, you name it.
Is the right kind of Christian the one who wants to end stem
cell research that has the potential to unlock cures for devastating diseases, like GW Bush
did and Mitt Romney will surely
do?
Skeptic Al, stem
cell research is
done very ethically and the name includes all types of stem
cells, not just ones from umbilical cords.
The ANT - OAR proposal represent a scientifically and morally sound means of obtaining human pluripotent stem
cells that
does not compromise either the science or the deeply held moral convictions of those who oppose the destructive use of human embryos for
research» which is a creative approach that can be embraced by both the anything - goes camp and the nothing - goes.
Just practically speaking: if these
cells will
do everything promised, why haven't businesses set themselves up to distribute them and why should the sales be subsidized given what profits the
research will (we've been told over and over) bring?
Second problem: One group that
does not know the debate is over is the group of pro «embryonic stem -
cell research advocates, whose name is Legion.
I
do not find Russell E. Saltzman's essay «Two Boats, a Helicopter, and Stem
Cells» (October 1999) entirely satisfying, although I have absolutely no quarrel with the argument developed for his own decision to oppose the use of aborted fetuses for stem
cell research.
As we read this history, the furor over stem
cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now
do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their
research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.
Romney being Mormon had no effect on his being governor of Massachusetts, except when it came to stem
cell research (he
did not support it).
Example in point: Opposition to embryonic stem
cell / human cloning
research: It isn't anti science to oppose treating nascent human life like a corn crop or manufacturing embryos, anymore than it is anti science than the Animal Welfare Act the proscribes what can and can't be
done in scientific
research with some mammals.
Why
do some conservative Christians say that the end justifies the means when it comes to torture, but not when it comes to stem
cell research?
President Obama sidestepped that piece of legislation when he opened up more embryo - stem -
cell research, but the legislation remains on the statute book, and as such the judge in August ruled as he
did.
Why
do you think politicians / religious leaders shy away from taking a stand against in - vitro and yet adamantly oppose stem
cell research?
I understand why people are against stem
cell research, but here's what I don't understand: Why don't more politicians / evangelicals speak out against in - vitro fertilization?
Do your
research about Sickle
cell and you'll see.
If religious right didn't intrude into government... meddle in science (hobbling stem
cell research.
While study results indicated that combining capsaicin with the chemicals «might promote cancer
cell survival,» the report clearly stated that the control group of mice treated only with capsaicin ``...
did not induce any skin tumors...» In addition, the study repeatedly cited other
research studies in which the anti-cancer properties of capsaicin were solidly demonstrated.
If couples
do not elect to freeze the extra embryos for later use, they can donate their embryos for
research, for stem
cells research, to another couple, to an embryo adoption agency, or simply discard them.
This article is questionable as it has no links or actual references to the studies it talks about, like someone above has mentioned also there is no information on how the diagnosis were made, and lastly it
does not take into account that celiac disease is NOT an allergy, it is an auto immune disease where the body attacks its own
cells confusing them with gluten proteins, it is not about tolerance, I would not be trusting this information,
do lots of
research on your own from legitimate scientific sources before making a decision.
My daughter's and my diagnosis with a Mast
Cell Disorder has lead me to do some research into mast cell disorders and how they relate to these other diseases, especially since my daughter also has tree allergies, celiac disease and ADHD; I have EoE, environmental and other severe food allergies; and my son has a diagnosis of multiple life threatening food allergies, eczema, environmental allergies and ast
Cell Disorder has lead me to
do some
research into mast
cell disorders and how they relate to these other diseases, especially since my daughter also has tree allergies, celiac disease and ADHD; I have EoE, environmental and other severe food allergies; and my son has a diagnosis of multiple life threatening food allergies, eczema, environmental allergies and ast
cell disorders and how they relate to these other diseases, especially since my daughter also has tree allergies, celiac disease and ADHD; I have EoE, environmental and other severe food allergies; and my son has a diagnosis of multiple life threatening food allergies, eczema, environmental allergies and asthma.
«This is about using pre-embryonic
cells to
do research that has the potential to ease the suffering of millions of people in this country.
Under a 2015 moratorium, the National Institutes of Health
does not fund
research that transplants human stem
cells into early embryos of other animals.
But as the
research in Yaniv's lab progressed, it became clear that scientists on both sides of the argument had been right: Lymphatic
cells do indeed grow from veins, but they originate from a niche within the vein that harbors angioblasts.
By exploiting new molecular and genetic insights, the
research,
done in collaboration with Pierre de Wit from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands, provides a better understanding of the defense system of crop plants against the damaging pathogens that grow in the spaces between plant
cells.
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The South Korean debacle [in which scientist Hwang Woo Suk was found to have been conducting fraudulent stem
cell research] was revealing because one of the basic technologies that we thought they had developed they were in fact unable to
do, and so far nobody in the United States or elsewhere has been able to
do it either.
In his second semester, he started
doing research in three different labs, including that of Carolyn Decker, a molecular biologist who was investigating how the
cell controls gene expression through the destruction of messenger RNA.
I mean, obviously no one has created a living
cell from buying reagent grade chemicals, so where
does the
research stand right now?