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Adult Stem Cell Growth Treats Cornea Disorders
stemcellar writes with a link to the ScienceDaily site, reporting on a method for adult stem cells to grow cornea stem cells. This use of differentiated stem cells in therapies on specific parts of the body is fairly novel, the article states, and could have numerous applications in medicine. "The research undertaken by the ophthalmologist has shown that, from a small biopsy sample, the new growth technique enables the growth of the number of stem cells thus obtained to the point of obtaining sufficient for the treatment to be effective. The cell sample is taken from the limb of the healthy eye - the ocular structure responsible for the transparency of the cornea. The importance of this growth method lies in the fact that it enables the characterization of the cells obtained, i.e. determining the quantity and viability of the units to be used."
Ahem--if embryonic stem cell research is promising all the private pharmaceutical firms (and big-time investors like Warren Buffett and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) would put up lots of money without government help to fund such research. As such, it appears adult stem cell research has shown major promise (some 80+ therapies based on adult stem cell research are now in serious development), while embryonic stem cell research has pretty much come up "squadoosh." I'm not sure from what Neo-con news source you're getting your information, but that's absurd. It is true that there have been some impressive advances in adult stem cell technology. But do you know what those were? Inducing pluripotency in skin cells (in mice). That's right, making adult stem cells more like embryonic stem cells.
Despite all the good, cheery values social conservatives claim to protect, their draconian policies will always be the number one enemy of progress and enlightenment. It's a wonder that such antiquarian busybodiness still festers in otherwise evolved nation states. Mayhap it is not such a wonder when the ultimate form of veracity is considered to be peridolia, anecdote, pseudoscience, intuition, and hynagogic visions.