timesonline.co.uk— Japan?s leading genetics researcher could be ?a matter of months? from reaching the Holy Grail of biotechnology ? producing an ?ethical? human stem cell without using a human embryo.
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I'm sure the pro-murder people will find something to say that this isn't as effective as human embryos so they can continue to make this part of their continued dehumanization of embryos agenda.Still if for some reason they can't it's really good news.
As Sam Harris says, a blastocyst (a few days' worth of dividing after conception) is a collection of about 150 cells, while the brain of a fly is somewhere on the order of 10,000 cells. We're talking two orders of magnitude. And that's even before specialization. How can the religious compare the rights of an undeveloped group of undifferentiated cells with the rights of an already-developed human being suffering from a debilitating disease which may be cured by ESCs, when they will regularly and without hesitation smash or fry in a fly-zapper an organism which has 100 times the cell count in its brain alone?It's ridiculous, really. Should we consider each pine cone a tree in it's own right?
why do we need technology like this when we can go on killing perfectly healthy embryo's? man those Japanese really are screwing things up for population control
You are so ignorant. People like you make this country suck. Your last sentence perfectly describes you. But to elaborate on your junk reasoning, if you completely removed the brain and nervous system from a person, but some how kept the cells alive, that is the only way a so-called comatose patient would be even close to being an embryo. In all actuality an embryo is the same as a skin cell or a liver cell or any single cell. If you chopped your finger off, would you give it the rights of a separate person? Please go back to preschool and start school all over again.
somedumbJul 17, 2007
what the hell are you talking about?
moloyJul 17, 2007
what about supply constraints?!will the bioshock prophecy be fulfilled?
Closed AccountJul 17, 2007
A large number of stem cells are taken from umbilical chords, which are just waste anyway
Closed AccountJul 17, 2007
I'm sure the pro-murder people will find something to say that this isn't as effective as human embryos so they can continue to make this part of their continued dehumanization of embryos agenda.Still if for some reason they can't it's really good news.
atheistacolyteJul 17, 2007
As Sam Harris says, a blastocyst (a few days' worth of dividing after conception) is a collection of about 150 cells, while the brain of a fly is somewhere on the order of 10,000 cells. We're talking two orders of magnitude. And that's even before specialization. How can the religious compare the rights of an undeveloped group of undifferentiated cells with the rights of an already-developed human being suffering from a debilitating disease which may be cured by ESCs, when they will regularly and without hesitation smash or fry in a fly-zapper an organism which has 100 times the cell count in its brain alone?It's ridiculous, really. Should we consider each pine cone a tree in it's own right?
madscientist68Jul 18, 2007
We already have adult stem cell obtainable from a variety of sources which have proven much more effective than embryonic stem cells.
espempireJul 18, 2007
why do we need technology like this when we can go on killing perfectly healthy embryo's? man those Japanese really are screwing things up for population control
insomniac8400Jul 25, 2007
You are so ignorant. People like you make this country suck. Your last sentence perfectly describes you. But to elaborate on your junk reasoning, if you completely removed the brain and nervous system from a person, but some how kept the cells alive, that is the only way a so-called comatose patient would be even close to being an embryo. In all actuality an embryo is the same as a skin cell or a liver cell or any single cell. If you chopped your finger off, would you give it the rights of a separate person? Please go back to preschool and start school all over again.
insomniac8400Jul 25, 2007
If you believe in god, then yes we are puppets on a string.