Scientists create stem cells from skin

[SaintInChicago]

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200711210410.html


Kyoto University researchers on Wednesday announced groundbreaking success in producing stem cells from human skin instead of human eggs.
The technique is being lauded worldwide as a way to tap the disease-fighting potential of stem cells without the ethical issues surrounding the use of human eggs or embryos.
It is a step forward in regenerative medicine that could treat spinal cord injury, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, cardiac and other diseases by supplying new, healthy tissue generated from stem cells.
The team generated versatile iPS (induced pluripotent stem) cells without using human eggs, a controversial technique that destroys the eggs.

 

[The Nihilist]

Oh good, now someone has put to rest the dumb controversy of taking advantage of embryos that were going to be destroyed anyway

 

[SaintInChicago]

Oh good, now someone has put to rest the dumb controversy of taking advantage of embryos that were going to be destroyed anyway

If only it were so. There have been numerous solutions like this that have already come up in the past. Umbilical chord stem cells, and other methods. Every time people will come up with some lame excuse why we need to use embryonic stem cells. I think that deep down some people are for certain things simply because another group is against them.

 

[The Nihilist]

If only it were so. There have been numerous solutions like this that have already come up in the past. Umbilical chord stem cells, and other methods. Every time people will come up with some lame excuse why we need to use embryonic stem cells. I think that deep down some people are for certain things simply because another group is against them.

Maybe I wasn't clear. I was mocking people who get angry about embryos getting used that are going to be destroyed anyway. This seems to include you.

 

[StarCannon]

If only it were so. There have been numerous solutions like this that have already come up in the past. Umbilical chord stem cells, and other methods. Every time people will come up with some lame excuse why we need to use embryonic stem cells. I think that deep down some people are for certain things simply because another group is against them.

Why let human potential, even in the form of embryonic cells, go to waste?

 

[SaintInChicago]

Maybe I wasn't clear. I was mocking people who get angry about embryos getting used that are going to be destroyed anyway. This seems to include you.

He who strikes first admits his argument has run out.

That would include you.

 

[Danyc]

He who strikes first admits his argument has run out.

That would include you.

The nice little philosophical lines usually work, I mean, who could disagree with the intelligent sound of 'He who...' arguments?

Unfortunately this one fails; simply because a person mocks another doesn't mean they have no argument. The mock usually is there argument. And it usually works.


=)

 

[MarionetteDarner]

If it is unethical to destroy an embryo on the basis that it has the potential to become a human being, then isn't it equally unethical to destroy a cell to create stem cells which have the potential of becoming an embryo?

Where do the embryonic rights nut jobs draw the line?

 

[The Nihilist]

He who strikes first admits his argument has run out.

That would include you.

Generally, I must be convinced that one either has some level of brain activity or is interested in serious inquiry before I'll commit to an argument. You haven't convinced me.

 

[SaintInChicago]

Generally, I must be convinced that one either has some level of brain activity or is interested in serious inquiry before I'll commit to an argument. You haven't convinced me.

You have to have brain activity to be convinced of it. That would be why.

 

[SaintInChicago]

The nice little philosophical lines usually work, I mean, who could disagree with the intelligent sound of 'He who...' arguments?

Unfortunately this one fails; simply because a person mocks another doesn't mean they have no argument. The mock usually is there argument. And it usually works.


=)

Right. Because arrogance and petty insults are so convincing. If sarcasm makes things more convincing to you then I would rather not lower myself to that level of argumentation.

 

[MarionetteDarner]

Right. Because arrogance and petty insults are so convincing. If sarcasm makes things more convincing to you then I would rather not lower myself to that level of argumentation.

Is that you, pot? Or is it kettle?