Stem Cells for Fixing Damaged Hearts

[Faith.Man]

Stem cells could potentially fix ‘broken hearts’ | Fox News

 

[drjean]

You'll note that nothing has come of embryo stem cells... and they've been researching with them a lot longer than adult stem cells. The adult cells have produced wonderful things for us!

 

[Faith.Man]

You'll note that nothing has come of embryo stem cells... and they've been researching with them a lot longer than adult stem cells. The adult cells have produced wonderful things for us!

This was one of the reasons I provided a link to this article. I'm glad you noticed that and pointed it out.

 

[drelnahas]

A recent medical study published in 2005 showed that Embryonic stem cells can differentiate into true cardiomyocytes (heart muscle cells), making them in principle an unlimited source of transplantable cells for heart repair, although immunological and ethical constraints exist.

 

[Lilly Owl]

I don't know why ethical constraints would exist in such vital life affirming, life saving, potential as that.
Embryos have a shelf life. When that expires they're thrown literally in the garbage and tagged in a red bag that reads; "Medical Waste".
They're incinerated or, in the worst case scenario depending on where the facility or hospital is located, thrown on a barge with other garbage and dumped at sea.

Save a life or be tossed as garbage. No ethical question there.

 

[drelnahas]

Ethical issues vary from one place to other and even from one person to other. You cannot force your ethical values to others. What seems ethical for you might seem very unethical to others. Let me give you an example here in USA. Physician aid-in-dying (PAD), or assisted suicide, is legal and ethical in the states of Washington, Oregon, and Montana. However it considered illegal and unethical in the rest of the states. <br>

 

[Lilly Owl]

I'm certainly aware that opinions vary on this issue. As they do on any other in fact.

However opinions that proclaim quality of life should be rescinded because someone opines the stem cells in an embryo are more important than the human life that would be healed or repaired due to a medical treatment derived from stem cell's and/or research, fail to remain consistent when arguing matters of ethics and quality of life.

Humans shouldn't be treated like garbage, when an embryo the shelf life of which is expired is literally relegated to the garbage.
If ethics mean anything, they value the life that needs to be healed more than the embryo that is not an equally imbued life if it could even be construed to be a life at all.

 

[JCFantasy23]

It makes complete sense to me you can use the human body to heal a human body. Works in nature a lot this way, the poison as the antidote kind of thing. I really do hope more work is done with stem cell research, saving more lives and healing more conditions previously considered incurable.

 

[Faith.Man]

A recent medical study published in 2005 showed that Embryonic stem cells can differentiate into true cardiomyocytes (heart muscle cells), making them in principle an unlimited source of transplantable cells for heart repair, although immunological and ethical constraints exist.

A recent study published in 2005? You do realize this is 2013, right? We have survived the Mayan Apocalypse!

 

[deke123]

I pray that God continues to bless doctors to new things concerning health and bless the human body in all ways....i do believe that in time new research will prove the life changing event with man-kind its already being done as we speak.

 

[drelnahas]

A recent study published in 2005? You do realize this is 2013, right? We have survived the Mayan Apocalypse!

when scientists talk, recent means in the past 10 years. There is no place here for sarcasm ..