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That said, I think I ran across some research into stem cells that doesn't require a fetus. I'll post the link sometime today...when time becomes a bit more plentiful.
To most I'm sure, it's not about the money really but all the nice things it can buy you before this impending crash.
Think about where things are headed, not where they are. Don't blame the money. These guys are after the power and control. In the post-crash world I'm sure it'll be bad enough so that the unhealthiest drags on society fall off, while those who still have something left to contribute will be just healthy enough to get by. If you go up high enough, it stops being about the money and all the nice things it can bring you.
If we continue into embryonic stem cell research, I'm sure we'll discover many new amazing things about the body and they don't want awareness in this area to increase. No need uncovering all these secrets, they might accidentally remind the people that their bodies are highly tuned machines and as such don't need all the crap we dump into them on a day to day basis. The people might actually look around at what they've created, start to think for themselves, get mad, and demand change.
Originally posted by bsl4doc
Yes, there are adult stem cells, mostly in the bone marrow. These stem cells, however, are pluirpotent, not totipotent, meaning they are not as versatile and cannot be induced to form every possible cell in the body, thus not quite as useful. There are still possible applications, however.
appreciate that the embryos are going to remain in deep freeze,
Originally posted by bsl4doc
If you're talking about the embryos from fertilization treatments, they only remain in deep freeze for a certain amount of time and then are incinerated.
Hey. But it doesn't mean that using them for research purposes before their inevitable destruction is any less wrong to people who believe that life begins at conception.
Neural stem cells are offshoots of the better-known embryonic stem cells, which can divide without limit and which can give rise to all of the body's more than 200 cell types. Neural stem cells have undergone further specialization, compared to embryonic stem cells, and so are restricted to forming only cells of the CNS. But like embryonic stem cells, neural stem cells can self-renew by dividing indefinitely in culture before differentiating. my emphasis