GOD CREATED SCIENTISTS AND TOLD THEM TO GO FORTH.....

GOD CREATED SCIENTISTS AND TOLD THEM TO GO FORTH
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GOOD MORNING FLINT ,
by Terry Bankert 08/08/2008 ,http://attorneybankert.com/ ,
full article with citations posted, http://goodmorningflint.blogspot.com/ ,
Summary for discussion at Flint Talk thread Good Morning Flint: http://www.flinttalk.com/viewforum.php?f=2
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REFLECTIONS: The scientific East Coast establishment has led the way once again. We now have stem cells from a source the religious right cannot protest and impose their out dated opinions on us. One of your family members may live longer because of this break through. Here is a strong argument for public funding of scientific research. New ideas will change our society and improve our quality of life. No more moral objections from the now politically impotent.[trb]
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HARVARD LEADS THE WAY, BUT I AM "GO BLUE"

Harvard scientists say they have created stems cells for 10 genetic disorders, which will allow researchers to watch the diseases develop in a lab dish.[1]

STEM CELLS FROM A SOURCE THE UNENLIGHTENED CANNOT COMPLAIN ,IN A FEMALE WAY, ABOUT

Scientists have created stem cells from patients suffering from 10 incurable diseases, from Down syndrome to diabetes and Parkinson's -- immortal cells that might one day be turned into repair material for wasting muscles or damaged brains.[2]

ONE OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS MAY LIVE LONGER

This early step, using a new technique, could help speed up efforts to find treatments for some of the most confounding ailments, the scientists said.[1]

THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNE

The new work was reported online Thursday in the journal Cell, and the researchers said they plan to make the cell lines readily available to other scientists.[1]
The Harvard University-led team has taken skin and bone marrow cells from diseased patients and re-programmed those cells to behave like cells from days-old embryos[2]

NO RIGHT TO LIFE PROTEST HERE, THANK THEIR GOD

Dr. George Daley and his colleagues at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute used ordinary skin cells and bone marrow from people with a variety of diseases, including Parkinson's, Huntington's and Down syndrome to produce the stem cells.[1]
CONTROVERSIAL stem cell research is crucial to the potential discovery of cures for some of the country's most devastating illnesses, a Welsh scientist will argue today. [4]

"COIN TOSS" IS THE BASIS OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD

The new cells will allow researchers to "watch the disease progress in a dish, that is, to watch what goes right or wrong," Doug Melton, co-director of the institute, said during a teleconference.[1]

The feat allows scientists for the first time to watch muscular dystrophy and other diseases unfold in a petri dish, "that is, to watch what goes right or wrong," said Doug Melton, co-director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. The cells will also allow researchers to screen new drugs to treat the diseases.[2]

QUICK, I AM RUNNING OUT OF TIME

"I think we'll see in years ahead that this opens the door to a new way to treating degenerative diseases," he said.[1]

"In these complex genetic diseases, we're so ignorant at the moment we don't even know when a patient gets diabetes if they all get it the same way," Melton said. "There could be 50 different ways to get Type 1 diabetes." The stem cell lines could help researchers hone in on exactly which mutations are responsible and find "the weak point where you could try to prevent, or treat it."[2]

SPEEDING RESEARCH, GOOD MPG

The new technique reprograms cells, giving them the chameleon-like qualities of embryonic stem cells, which can morph into all kinds of tissue, such as heart, nerve and brain. As with embryonic stem cells, the hope is to speed medical research.[1]

The new cells are "pluripotent" cells that can be coaxed into making any tissue in the human body, and can grow forever.[2]

NEXT A DAIRY SUSHI

Research teams in Wisconsin and Japan were the first to report last November that they had reprogrammed skin cells, and that the cells had behaved like stem cells in a series of lab tests. Just last week, another Harvard team of scientists said they reprogrammed skin cells from two elderly patients with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, and grew them into nerve cells.[1]

A ROAD MAP IS A ROAD MAP

Every cell in the human body contains the same genetic instructions, and in people with inherited genetic diseases, every cell carries the same mistakes, Daley and Melton said.Stem cells -- and the new iPS cells -- will grow virtually immortal in the lab, and given the right conditions, can be made to form any desired tissue, from heart muscle to brain cells.[5]

IS MALE BALDING IN THIS LIST

Melton said the new disease-specific cell lines "represent a collection of degenerative diseases for which there are no good treatments and, more importantly, no good animal models for the most part in studying them."[1]

LIKE A CELL SLAVE TRADE

A new laboratory has been created to serve as a repository for the cells, and to distribute them to other scientists researching the diseases, Melton said.[1]he new stem cell lines will be distributed virtually free to any scientist who wants them, in the hope it will speed research. Researchers are trying to make insulin-producing pancreatic cells and immune cells from the new stem cells.[2]

But opponents say the practice compromises the sanctity of human life as it means deriving benefits from the destruction of human embryos: fertilized eggs in early stages of development. More extreme viewpoints say the practice is tantamount to murder, abortion, "playing God" and even paves the way for cloned human beings. [4]

SCIENTIFIC WORLD DOMINATION IS AT HAND THE BARBARIANS HAVE BEEN BEATEN BACK

D.C. in the fall Rome 2009, breach the walls......[trb]

"But that doesn't remove the ethical concerns. Some people believe a fertilized egg is the beginning of life and should not be tampered with in any shape or form. That is very much the view from Rome and from the White House. [4]

ANOTHER SCIENTIST CONCERNED ABOUT OUR CLIMATE

"The hope is that this will accelerate research and it will create a climate of openness," said Daley.[1]

He expects stem cell lines to be developed for many more diseases, noting, "this is just the first wave of diseases." Other diseases for which they created stem cells are Type 1, or juvenile, diabetes; two types of muscular dystrophy, Gaucher disease and a rare genetic disorder known as the "bubble boy disease."[1]

HERE COMES THE RIGHT WING, GOING BUT NOT GONE

Daley stressed that the reprogrammed cells won't eliminate the need or value of studying embryonic stem cells.[1]

Even though the federal government does not approve to embryonic stem cell research, the stem cells from the new library were created in the lab using a technique that makes adult cells develop into primitive stage cells, so doing research on them does not offend any laws.[3]

VALUE TO HUMANITY TRUMPS OUT DATED DOCTINE, ITS 2008 GANG NOT 1300
Dr Arwyn Jones, of Cardiff University, will tell an audience at the Eisteddfod's main science lecture that the technology could cure diseases such as cancer, diabetes and Parkinson's, as well as help understand conditions such as infertility. He will say that the staunch ethical concerns of groups such as the Catholic Church, anti-abortion groups and some MPs are outweighed by the research's potential benefits, and that some of these concerns may now diminish with the development of adult stem cell technology. [4]

"At least for the foreseeable future, and I would argue forever, they are going to be extremely valuable tools," he said.[1]

ANOTHER ARGUMENT FOR PUBLIC FUNDING OF R&D

The reprogramming work was funded by the National Institutes of Health and private contributions to the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. [1]

FIX ME BABY FIX ME

It may one day be possible to start with a single stem cell, fix the genetic defect in the cell, and then use it to make healthy muscle, brain or other tissue that could be transplanted back into the patient. "We're many years from that . . . but that in itself is exciting," said Dr. Duncan Stewart, CEO of the Ottawa Health Research Institute and professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa.[2]

MORAL OBJECTIONS FROM THE IRRELEVANT

The federal government severely restricts embryonic stem cell research because of moral objections, but the Harvard lab works with private funding.[5]
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AP
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ghgstImYEQjKxe04Lw0Qt8YIhbZgD92DTPHO0

[2]
Calgary Herald
http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=be034dc1-f739-41ea-a51d-5fbc5fad3f87

[3]
Eflux Media
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Stem_Cell_Library_Created_By_Researchers_In_Massachusetts_21728.html

[4]
redOrbit
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1515257/benefits_of_stem_cell_research_outweigh_the_ethical_concerns/

[5]
Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN07315956
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