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'Plentiful' Non-Embryonic Stem Cells Found
An anonymous reader writes "CNN reports that scientists at Harvard and Wake Forest have discovered a 'plentiful' non-embryonic source for stem cells, as well brain, liver, and bone cell types as well. The cells, found in amniotic fluid, can be harvested without harm to the donor or the donor's unborn child. While there's no proof that amniotic stem cells are as potent as embryonic stem cells, scientists are hopeful that this will be a huge step forward for the field of stem-cell research."
..why must people who don't believe in their shit, have to tippy toe around these nutcases beliefs? if i had a spinal injury and some religous whacko told me i couldn't have research into a cure done becuase it offended his primative bliefs, i'd smash him right in the face and roll my fucking wheel chair over his balls.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
We that really depends upon what makes you human. I wouldn't say that an embryo is human in any sense that it's worth caring about.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
You USians with your outdated debates on death penalty, stem cells, abortion or the reality of global warming would amuse us if you were not the sad bible thumping, violent, polluting people you are.
It's quite hard to extract relevant amounts of stem cells from few drops of fluid.
Unless you just need a cell or two, I would say you need to drain much more that few drops.
Intelligence has limits. Stupidity doesn't.
Funny I fail to see how its a human rights issue to harvest stem cells from an aborted and dead fetus that the scientists had no part in creating in the first place and no choice in whether or not the mother aborted it.
Can you find someone who was a former aborted embryo to speak on the subject? You're perspective seems somewhat muddy.
I had a discussion about this "living organisms"/"basic rights" thing with a religious nutjob.
I asked her if she didn't have a problem with eating beef, or eggs. No, she didn't. "So what makes an embryo different?" I asked.
*Drum roll* "But a human embryo has a soul!"
The same whackos who are in favor of sending more thinking, living soldiers to bomb, shoot and be shot at by thinking, living Iraquis and who kill living, (somewhat) thinking animals (literally) for breakfast have qualms about terminating insentient, barely living clumps of cells.
Me, I'm in favor of killing all religious fundamentalists and harvesting their organs to help people who aren't demonstrably insane hipocrytes.
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Rel
"It is scientific fact that embryos, from conception onward, are living human organisms."
Why lie? That is by no measure a "scientific fact" and you destroy any credibility you may have had by lying in such an obvious fashion.
More to the point, YOU betray your religious leanings by lying like that.
Why are so many posts with factual errors modded up?
...is the bigger issue people seem to be ignoring.
/sarcasm
I don't care if you are religious or not. I don't care where your ethics stand.
Are you hoenstly telling me that you don't think sacrificing a few hundred, maybe a few thousand people aren't worth it for the benefit of 6 BILLION?
I mean, let's be realistic here. You are talking about something which has done nothing, has no opinion, cannot survive on it's own, and is not in my phone book.
Yes. Let's give the unborn few more of a chance of survival than the ones that are already suffering. Because that makes complete sense.
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It's an odd line of reasoning. It could only have become a baby with the aid of a lot of input from a woman. The average human male produces several million sperm cells every day, each of which could become a baby with a similar amount of input for a human, so I presume this makes George W. Bush, by his own reasoning, guilty of killing several billion babies. Someone should probably arrest him for that...
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