Breakthrough In Stem Cell Technology?

[Bashfulll]

hmmmm....you sound interesting when your not mocking religion!

However, i do respect your views. I'm sure this debate that pro-life have, about is it ethical or socially moral will come to an end really soon.

There are alternatives from where you can derive stem cell....basically from the hosts own body! Still in research though

[CadicusTheDamned]

I wish you would have listened to the video...

The Japanese used a virus to convert skin cells into stem cells. The virus causes cancer.

The scientists that pioneered the research warned that it was not a "magic bullet" to sidestep the possible benefits embryonic stem cell research offers.

[CadicusTheDamned]

However, all that said, converted skin cells have shown promise. Mice were given sickle cell anemia and then their bone marrow was replaced with healthy bone marrow cells created from the skin cells converted to stem cells. The mice have not yet developed cancer.

The problem is that mice only leave a few years. People live many years.

[CadicusTheDamned]

A possible solution could be repeating the experiments on chimpanzees, but the ethics of doing so become problematic when it involves animals with fully developed (mature) nervous systems 98% similar to our own.

However, a blastocyst does not even have a nervous system. It's not a scientific ethics debate. It's about the imaginary concept of "souls."

[ProjectHelpHealChase]

Not sure if you tried, but we are persuing stem cells from umbilical cord blood. The FDA won't allow it in the US, but we are going into Mexico with American doctors. Check Stem Cell Biotherapy. We are sorry to hear your wife is sick.

[CadicusTheDamned]

Yeah, Maki-chan is not supposed to live to see forty.

Then Christians wonder why atheists hate them so much.

The fuckers are robbing us of hope over an idea lacking any evidence or even scriptural support (such as the concept of a soul being created the moment a sperm joins an egg).

[CadicusTheDamned]

Luckily, my wife's people are 80% atheists (basically, Buddhists or "lapsed" Shintoists) and are blazing ahead in the technology.

Perhaps the world's second largest economy can make up for the fact that the world's largest is ran by morons.

[CadicusTheDamned]

Considering I just deleted all the no-faces and sock accounts subbed to me, it is much appreciated and needed.

I work in a hospital, and all I can say is that I'd save the worthless prayers and find out if the head surgeon has performed the operation multiple times and has a high survival rate amongst his patients.

[TheRealistCanuck]

Lol!

"In 10 years she's going to grow a new hip"

[CadicusTheDamned]

No, that's not what I was trying to say.

I meant that maybe in ten or twenty years, the stem cell technology might be good enough that something like that MIGHT be possible. I made absolutely no predictions just a speculation based off the scientists' own speculations.

[TheRealistCanuck]

I highly doubt we'd see anything close to what your saying in our lifetime. Is she supposed to wait 20 years to grow a new hip bone through stem cells? Think of what your saying.

[CadicusTheDamned]

You're totally misconstruing what I am saying...

Do you know anything about stem cells?

When you put a stem cell next to another cell, it turns into a cell of the same type. *Perhaps* it would be possible to take hip bone cells out of a healthy person of the same blood type and then either grow or carve part of a hip that could be fused with the good portion.

Of course, she'd have to take cyclosporin for the rest of her life though.

[LoomisLoftis]

What did you say? Japanese eat whales for research? Very interesting. You should do a vid on this strange whale research. It sounds bizarre.

[CadicusTheDamned]

Oh, it's fucking scandalous. I've been busting my wife's balls about it for weeks.

The cover is that they whale for research. Really they're just whaling to sell the meat on the market. They do the same thing to dolphins.

I love Japanese people, but their treatment of intelligent marine mammals is an atrocity.

[skywolf1969]

italy is reserching stem cells using ebryos and stuff checkout the extantdodo thing on stem cells i'd personally do the research but im a computer guy not a bio guy and i'm broke your next best hope is cloning tech but thats got a way to go yet too my heart goes out to you

[CadicusTheDamned]

Thanks for the kind words.

[DarklingSprite]

You're a nerdy bitch, but I'd fuck you! lol

[Karozy]

Its great when fakesagan's video responses lead me to other non-assholes who can vlog on prudent subject matter, you have my subscription, keep it up - 5 stars

[CadicusTheDamned]

I just wish I wasn't so fucking camera shy. I ought to write a script, but then I sound like a monotonous asshole.

I do stuff other than just atheism, I'm in the process of uploading some bootleg stand-up comedy (I have the comedians permission, so maybe it's not really bootleg).

[Anogram]

Bush and all those who put up road blocks for Stem Cell Research, they spread the message of anti hope and anti science. But yet they would prey or come out in public with snowflake babies behind them. Blah... so dumb they are.

[xCodyxRayx]

Informational. 5*'s