Not exact matches
One of the most remarkable facts about the
human body — indeed, about the great mass of
living things — is that nearly every
cell carries the complete genetic blueprint for the entire organism.
Human Longevity has already received $ 70 million in private backing and aims to use both genomics and stem
cell therapies to allow us to
live longer, healthier
lives.
While we thrive thanks to lightning speed Internet connections,
cell phones that are smarter than the average
human being and other neat gadgets that make our
lives feel and seem easier, we are exhausting a number of non-renewable resources.
Scientists have identified an alternative DNA structure described as a «twisted knot» inside
living human cells.
If I have a bunch of
cells from a throat culture or other medical swab, that isn't a
human life.
But since you and I both know God is the ultimate authority and thus sets the standard, and God clearly is against abortion, and the atheists are erroneously calling very early
human life nothing but «a bunch of
cells,» isn't it up to us to fight for those
lives?
Create your own original
living human cell, then, Colin.
For instance, a strong resolution opposing embryonic stem
cell research, which destroys
human lives, passed with 97 percent support.
Francis Crick famously asserted that
human life is «no more than the behavior of... nerve
cells and their associated molecules.»
They probably wanted to redefine «person» so that they could weasel their way into applying the rights we have as
living breathing
human beings to clusters of
cells (fetus) not viable outside the uterus.
«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of
life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple
cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex
cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular
life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (
human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern
humans.»
It seems incredible to them, for example, that the marvelous, intricate, and dynamic adjustments constantly made by the
cells in the
human body, apart from which
human life is impossible, are somehow self - explanatory.
When a women eliminates a clump of
living,
human cells from a part of her body she is doing it because those
cells are a part of her body that she doesn't want.
No, you say that microscopic
human life is worthless in sperm and sacred when combined with a different type of
cell a couple inches away.
Any one who knows anything about
human development knows that your body is never done making replacement
cells in a
living person.
for the last 3.6 billion years, simple
cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing photosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex
cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular
life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, ma - mmals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (
human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern
humans.
If this had been an attempt to clone a
human being, would there have been 276 losses of
cells and DNA material or 276 lost
human lives?
One involves a clump of
cells that couldn't survive outside the
human body, the other involves actual
living beings.
A clump of
cells with no brain, and no neural tube is no more «a
human life» than
cells from your skin layer, or a sperm
cell with no change of fertilizing an egg.
Only 10 % of the
cells in and on your body are
human, the other 90 % is the trillions of
life forms that inhabit and
live on your body... some of them can kill you if they get too numerous.
Evidence of the fact that union differentiates is to be seen all round us — in the bodies of all higher forms of
life, in which the
cells become almost infinitely complicated according to the variety of tasks they have to perform; in animal associations, where the individual «polymerises» itself, one might say, according to the function it is called upon to fulfil; in
human societies, where the growth of specialization becomes ever more intense; and in the field of personal relationships, where friends and lovers can only discover all that is in their minds and hearts by communicating them to one another.
This depends upon there being a brain, an arrangement of
cells in a particular part of the body which by reason of its peculiar coordination makes the given routing able to «know» in a distinctively
human manner — quite different from, although certainly continuous with, the sort of «knowing» that is possible for the higher grades of animal
life.
(1)
human life (2) animal
life (3) vegetable
life (4) single
living cells (5) large scale inorganic aggregates of occasions (6) energy - events disclosed by modern physics
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.
Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem
cell research that could save countless
human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.
(1) The simpler depends upon fewer specific conditions and has fewer, less demanding needs;
human life, for example, depends upon so many more factors than single -
celled marine
life does.
Well it seems like Ivan can relax, Michael Peroski has just solved all of our problems: Proceeding from ideology - driven inquiry entails starting from an answer: «Research on
human embryonic stem
cell should be forbidden because embryos are equivalent to
human lives» and working....
Such
human social organization may be compared with the
life of plants, whose individual
cells may be highly specialized and interdependent.
No doubt it is true, scientifically speaking, that no distinct center of superhuman consciousness has yet appeared on earth (at least in the
living world) for which it may be claimed or predicted that one day it will exercise a centralizing function, in relation to associated
human thought, similar to the role of the individual «I» in relation to the
cells of the brain.
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.
Stem
cells can be obtained licitly, without loss of
human life — for example, from an adult organism or from the blood of the umbilical cord at the time of birth.
Pro-choice euphemisms like «pre-embryo,» «foetal tissue,» and «ball of
cells» are materialistic and reflect fully the diminishment of
human life as chance — easy come, easy go.
It is the same when the artificial creation of a
human cell is considered: «Nothing more than reproducing those conditions in which under the Law of Control and Direction,
life emerges.»
If
life can evolve from a single
cell to complex
humans, why couldn't a similar process effect
life outside of this dimension?
We in our
human way share in the subhuman emotional
life of
cells; they in their subhuman way share in our emotional
life.
A skin
cell is «
human life».
------------- And if 90 % of dust particles are made up of
human skin
cells, then I think there's a naked man
living under my bed... And he's HAIRY!
The objects of his study range from a class of molecules that have the basic self - duplicating property of
living things, through
cells which suggest purely physical systems, through animals which give increasing evidence of having minds, to
human beings in whom streams of consciousness seem to involve continual choices of action, at the opposite pole from control by impersonal laws of nature.
Just as our conscious
human experience unconsciously feels the unconscious feelings of the
cells of the brain and achieves a unity of its own
life of feeling, so the Totality that is God feels our feelings in the unity of perfect experience.
Unfortunately, at this formative stage in their
lives one viewpoint is pushed to the fore on campus, and that's the opinion that euthanasia, abortion, embryonic stem
cell research and a host of other practices which strip
humans of their most fundamental right are good things.
This account of «
life» as a characteristic of
cells means that in the
human organism there are billions of centers of
life, not one.
If we say such
cells have the potential of becoming
human life, then Catholics are right to argue that the unjoined sperm and egg also have a similar potential for
life, and anything that stops them joining (such as a condom or withdrawal) is morally equivalent to abortion.
Instone - Brewer's own narrowing of the question of individual
life -LRB-»... when does an embryo change from being a bundle of undifferentiated
cells into a
living human individual?»)
It is, of course, simpler to say that individual
life begins at conception, but this is problematic because a single
cell can not be said to be a
human.
Dietary Methylglyoxal (MGO) is a compound that occurs naturally when glucose is made available to a
living cell in the
human body, plant or animal.
«Brain scientists have invented, established and patented a method to obtain long -
living cell lines derived from fungiform taste papillae of the
human tongue.
So he let me
live in a heartbreaking jail
cell of forced celibacy and denial of
human touch / intimacy for years because he was «embarrassed?»
Philipp added that there are
live human cells in breast milk that can't be added to formula.
The components of
human milk, especially
live cells from the baby's mum, can not be replaced from artificial sources.
By the 4 - 8
cell stage of
life,
human embryos have to «turn on» their own genes and start making their own proteins.