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Grow Your Own Heart Valves
jcr writes "Medical researchers in Britain have succeeded in growing a heart valve from adult stem cells taken from bone marrow. The research is being reported in the journal of the Royal Society today. Growing a heart value from your own cells means that tissue rejection isn't an issue."
If you have sex with your own clone, is that still incest?
Wow.... I'm impressed, you made that jump from stem cell research to the war for oil was one of the smoothest I have ever seen during my time on slashdot. /Bow
You mad
I was actually disappointed that it took 20 minutes from posting of the story for someone to complain about Bush. Libdotters are normally on the ball with this.
Since when did we think the terrorists were Iraqis... Great points on the FUD storm coming.
Looks fine to me. Are you reading this at a computer in a pvblic library?
The religious folks will say we're playing god and that it's not good to fight his will.
You'll notice that a lot of them are strongly against abortion, but all for fertility treatment, even though it's rather more like playing God...
All the productive therapies are coming out of the adult side, not the embryonic side. Had we concentrated our funds on adult stem cell research, we might be even further ahead. Instead we got a lot of inaccurate tear-jerking testimony that emotionally manipulated the process and lots of funding ended up supporting what has largely been a "dry hole" of scientific exploration.
Over time, millions may die because we funded embryonic stem cell research to the level we are doing so today instead of concentrating on the more productive adult cell approaches. Millions of lives hang in the balance on a lot of speculative decisions and they can be lost no matter how you choose. We do our best and cut our losses as much as we can if we're ethical.