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Stem Cell Research: Beyond Hype, Real Hope

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Uploaded by on Oct 20, 2006

A short video that provides clear, easy-to-understand answers about stem-cell research.

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  • Embryonic stem cells come from embryos that will otherwise be thrown away in the garbage. They are going to be destroyed either way. What is wrong with using them to advance science?

  • Yes, we all began as a clump of cells - an egg and a sperm. Would you call these two cells life? Even when joined, they are living tissue - like a trasplanted heart, eye, etc. Until transplanted, they are just living tissue. An in vitro (outside the body) fertilization is living tissue, not a life but a potential life. When implanted in the womb, THEN it is viable. Disagree? Then let's shut down every fertility clinic - let's think about what we're doing here!

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  • Actually, many of us DO understand this. But perhaps you should reconsider your own assumption that "maximum malleability" (i.e., "totipotency") is always a good thing. Ironically, the totipotency of embrionic cells is precicely the property that renders them UNUSABLE in any treatment thus far.

  • Promised, this is not scientific. That's why all the speakers told you what you should think on the subject. In the scientific field, that's frowned upon whenever you're not defending your doctoral thesis. Evidence is presented so that opinions can be formulated from it and since this video failed to present any current evidence (beyond that of the emotional plea -- in case you don't know, it is in no way evidence), you're being duped by people who don't respect your intelligence.

  • Shut up! You're not supposed to think! They do all the thinking for you! Why would you not think the way they tell you to, its far easier.

  • You fail to understand that the reason scientists are studying Embryonic stem cells is because they are far more malleable than adult stem cells, which are as it goes VERY SPECIFIED. This point is passed over in the above video, please try not to ignore it.

  • As a molecular biochemist, I would just like to say that you guys are so ignorant of this field that you can't come close making RATIONAL sense. Just because all the successful research was in proteins does not mean that we should shy away from the VAST potential of RNA enzymatics, and the same applies here. Please, if you do not have a background in this field, do not presume to have an educated opinion on this subject, and most definitely do not take another's because "they told you to."

  • Congratulations...and Thank you for some scientific "Not-so common" sense!

  • Woo Adult Stem Cell Research!I like this video!Kudos!

  • Yea, i bet none of these people who made this video actually suffer from life alternative diseases.

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