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Originally Posted by jacked
good to see there making advances in this medical field, i don't know to much about it but i've heard that it's the next major step in curing a lot serious illness' such as certain types of cancer.
and for our president to ban the testing/experimenting of this kind of treatment is ridiculous, what happend to seperation of church and state.
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Jacked, the big argument is regarding 'embryonic' stem cells.
There's a difference.
Embryonic stem cells are made when a fertilized human egg cell begins to grow. It is halted and the stem cells, the basic building blocks of all our organs and such are harvested. The argument there is it's ending a human life to harvest cells.
On the other hand, stem cells can be harvested from several other ways according to scientists and those tests and applications are under way. In this case with Don Ho, the stem cells were gathered from his blood cells or so the story goes. Whether that's true or not only an investigation will conclude.
Bottom line is, stem cells work. It's the biggest breakthrough in medical history so far. If applied correctly, theoretically it could probably repair any number of damages to the body. Perhaps even cure alzheimer's or grow new limbs to trauma victims. The proof is in the pudding here because we know for a fact Don Ho was close to death and in less than a month he's on stage and jammin'. That says a lot and calls for further study.
Just think, curing blindness or old age. Amazing.