A new way to make Stem Cell

Stem Cell Alchemy Refined | Wired Science from Wired.com

All the talk about having to kill embryos to get their stem cells is being proved wrong.
Stem cells are great and we should research how to use them to cure people, BUT not by [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Stem cell politics shifting

Stem cell politics shifting - Cosmic Log - msnbc.com

I fail to understand why people still cling to the position of using human embryos for research even as that research suggests alternatives. I mean it's like the actually HOPE human embryos will always be required to accomplish anything.

I for one, certainly hope we can do all the promised miracle cures WITHOUT the need of killing another person to accomplish the cure, or even to learn about the cure. The difference is what this new development is all about. They say we STILL need to research on embryonic stem cells to learn about them, but then we may be able to use non-embryonic stem cells to actually do the cure for any particular patient. This is great, but still doesn't cut it for me. Killing human embryo is unacceptable to me no matter what benefit it will or possibly will give us. My ethics are based on my ethical and moral beliefs, not some "cost/benefit" analysis. The line that cannot be crossed, still cannot be crossed no matter what I see on the other side. This is certainly all the more true if there is even a hint of a way to get some of the prize without crossing the line.

My line of not killing human embryos is NOT some infinite horizontal line above with we can never go. We can still move upward and improved and progress, we just have to avoid certain obstacles along the way. They may seem unavoidable, and they may seem to stop progress, but my experience is that it just slows us down some but that we can still progress even without selling our souls. [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Human-animal embryos

And so we start down the slippery slope ......

I mean besides the obvious... "let's study nature by creating and then destroying something completely UNnatural" contradiction... what else is wrong with this?

I don't think history will look favorably this period and these decisions...

Human-animal embryo study wins approval | Science | The Guardian [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Artificial Life Likely in 3 to 10 Years

Artificial Life Likely in 3 to 10 Years

As a Christian I really wonder if God will allow us to cross this line. It seems that our knowledge of genetics (artificial life, embryonic stem cells, cloning, etc) is getting to the point where it can be dangerous to ourselves. (as in "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing" sort of dangerous, not that we could actually be dangerous to God or something.)

I'm not predicting anything, but I do something wonder if the end times are closer than we would like to think, of if something will happen to set us back a bit (like the "tower of babel" where God intervened to stop humans from working together) [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Stem Cell Tactics

I'm posting a link to this because it made me so angry when I read it. This guy, Steven Edwards, admits up front that he has "this nagging case of paralysis that makes me passionate about stem-cell policy"

But then he immediately says that embryonic stem-cell policy must change for FINANCIAL reason, stating that it is the #1 threat to Medicare.

So, in his first two breaths, he comes up with a "emotional" and a "financial" reason to destroy more embryos in the search for cures that won't come in time to help him or our Medicare system.

He then goes on to mock Bush's decision to limit federal funding to embryos already destroyed but never seriously mentions Bush's and millions of other people's real concern with Embryonic research.

His ultimate compromise to the allow the 300 embryo's killed since Bush's first executive order to be studied with federal money, as long as the law "encourages research into techniques that don't destroy embryos".

I'm sorry, but if you allow researchers to use the stem-cells from destroyed embryos, there would be no benefit for them to look into ways that don't kill embryos. Currently there IS a lot of effort being made to come up with ways to get stem-cells without killing embryos, and this is precisely because Bush made a firm stand on this issue. For the President to change that now would be silly...almost as silly as this article.

Wired News: Stem Cell Tactics for a New Age [This Post Continues after the jump...]

New Stem Cell Research

A New Era Begins This research proves that there is an alternative to destroying humans embryos to study and use Stem Cells. The Democrats were saying they were going to fund stem cell research, If they are the centrists they claim to be, they will fund research using Adult or these "amniotic-fluid stem cells" and forgo funding for "embryonic" research which is immoral and now proven to be unnecessary.

These AFS cells look to be actually BETTER than embryonic cells for several reasons and have NO ethical baggage that I can see. Conservatives have been saying for a long time that we should not do medical experimentation on people (embryos) just because the hype says embryonic stem cells can cure just about anything. The hype machine was running full force and made conservatives out to be "anti-science" and "anti-progress" etc. Well, now the truth is coming out and we see that is a different and better way to get to the magical land of "Stem cell treatments" for many diseases. Most conservatives were never against using "stem cells" just against killing people to get those stem cells.

If any of this pans out to yield an actual treatment for a medical condition, I think this will be a good case study for medical ethics, we shouldn't allow the hype to carry us away and forget the significance of even the smallest and most helpless person, a human embryo. [This Post Continues after the jump...]

Bush Vetoes Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill

Thank God that Bush is able to stop this for now. But eventually it will pass, or something like it.

FOXNews.com - Bush Vetoes Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill - The Executive Branch [This Post Continues after the jump...]