A paralysed man is now walking following the transplantation into his spinal cord of cells from his nasal cavity.
By contrast, embryonic stem cell research has never yielded anything. Anything at all. Ever.
However, funding continues to be poured into it.
However, funding continues to be poured into it.
But science is what works.
Even if it does not annoy the Catholic Church for having dared to educate the practitioners, or the wrong sort, or both.
Even if it does not annoy the Catholic Church for having dared to educate the practitioners, or the wrong sort, or both.
You must have missed the results of the trials into using embryonic stem cells to treat macular degeneration.
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They maketh the blind to see.
Also, Harvard are seeing very encouraging results using embryonic stem cells to treat Type I Diabetes.
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All very over-hyped, and that is the nice way of putting it.
ReplyDeleteWhereas things like this, and adult and cord blood stem cell research, really, truly, demonstrably work.
Yet look where the money goes. That has nothing to do with science, which is what works.