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Originally Posted by Mad Hatter
first off, you need a better source. the current administration does not support embryonic stem cell research, so you need to find unbiased information.
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The current administration does not support
federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. That's a big difference from "does not support." Perhaps they don't support it in general, as well, but it is still legal for private firms to pursue ESC research on their own.
As for other sources:
Scientists grow adult stem cells from nose.
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Head researcher Alan Mackay-Sim of Griffith University said the adult stem cells taken from inside the nose could potentially be used to grow nerve, heart, liver, kidney and muscle cells.
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“We have got an adult stem cell which is accessible in everybody and we can grow lots of these cells and turn them into many other cell types,” Mackay-Sim told Reuters.
“Apart from neural and brain cells, they look like they can turn into blood cells, heart muscle and to skeletal muscle,” he said in an interview.
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I also just
ran across this link, but I'm not quite sure what it means.
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bush's science advisor carries a bible with him wherever he goes.
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What's your point? Is this supposed to be a bad thing?
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according to the national institute of health, "Adult stem cells are generally limited to differentiating into different cell types of their tissue of origin."
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But as is the point with the article I pointed to above-- we're moving away from the view of adult stem cells as uncompromisingly rigid, and recognizing in them a remarkable fluidity that we hadn't recognized before. Yes, that's the traditional mode of thought on it. But from what I've read-- and those articles are my quick finds-- we're gradually seeing ASC as more pliable than we had originally thought.
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as for progress, I should hope more progress has been made with adult stem cells. why? because embryonic stem cells get no federal funding. obviously it's not gonna go anywhere if it's listed in popular science as one of the worst jobs in america.
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I know ESC get no (edit: actually, George Bush is the first person to spend money on ESC research, but it obviously isn't anything near what people would like, and is limited to a very small sample) federal funding, but do ASC get federal funding?
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but if you want results, humans are a result of embryonic stem cells. that's a pretty good result if you ask me
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Heh. But we're not results of embryonic stem cell
research.
And as a side question: we live in capitalistic America... if ESC are so promising, wouldn't we expect to see a huge influx of investment capital into the sector? After all, these are potential cure-alls of many significant problems.