[ExI] new stem cell therapy

[Stefano Vaj]

2011/10/13 spike <spike66 at att.net>

> John, this is a critically important point sir: there was an erroneous
> conflation of stem cell research with embryonic stem cell research.  The
> fundamentalists were against creating embryos to harvest stem cells.  They
> managed to get government funding of that restricted.  That freed up more
> government money for patient-derived stem cell research, which ended up
> being far more fruitful, since the patient-derived cells do not need immune
> system suppressants.
>

*If* it is true, in matters of policies I am a little more reluctant to rely
on lucky coincidences, where bad intentions lead to happy results... :-)

-- 
Stefano Vaj
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20111013/66febcbc/attachment.html>