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Stem Cell Research with a Twist.... - 9/4/2007 7:23:34 PM

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I'm simply amazed at how far medical science has traveled in the last century...

Little more than 100 years ago, x-rays had just been discovered. Barely 80 years ago, we had no antibiotics. Just 47 years ago, birth control pills were approved by the FDA. Why, I was four years old before the first ever human heart transplant was done... it was a medical miracle and the patient lived for 18 days afterward.

And look where we are today...

Chinese Scientists Create First Human-Animal Embryo

Scientists triumph in battle over ban on hybrid embryos

'Human-animal' embryo ruling due

Britain to decide on human-animal embryo research

It's a fascinating and somewhat frightening horizon we are on. The moral and ethical questions will continue, but for now the possibilities for the future seem unlimited.

Of course, it kinda makes you wonder about the possibilities for "pet play" in the future, too.

*sighs* Edited to fix wonky formatting.

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RE: Stem Cell Research with a Twist.... - 9/4/2007 7:27:15 PM

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And people still believe that the Earth was "created in 7 days".

We still have a long way to go, apparently.

The 'pet play' is intriguing though!

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RE: Stem Cell Research with a Twist.... - 9/4/2007 7:57:27 PM

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         One of our Progressive type posters was saying in another thread that Conservatives were going to need some distraction issue to motivate the Religious Right to turn out in '08. Maybe we should be calling you TreasureHunterKY, cause I think you found it right here.

         I think I have fewer issues with using lab animals to regrow organs and body parts, than I do with the ethics of cloning.



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RE: Stem Cell Research with a Twist.... - 9/4/2007 8:15:27 PM

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That's just fucking around with things that shouldn't be fucked with.

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RE: Stem Cell Research with a Twist.... - 9/4/2007 8:21:27 PM

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I think I have fewer issues with using lab animals to regrow organs and body parts, than I do with the ethics of cloning.

I think I'd have to agree, but I'm not exactly sure I'm comfortable with it. Part of that may be because of my conservative background; part because of all the science fiction I've read.

FirmhandKY believes the future of medicine will be nanotechnology. To me this sounds like a much more palatable direction, not only because of fewer ethical questions, but because I'd personally like to see the benefits. While in the future I might possibly benefit from a cure developed out of stem cell research for some illness, it seems more likely that applications for nanotechnology would go far beyond remedies for existing conditions and address the symptoms of aging.

Of course, progress would have to occur at an even more rapid pace than it has for me to live to see that kind of technology, but a girl can dream.

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RE: Stem Cell Research with a Twist.... - 9/4/2007 8:31:14 PM

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Nanotech is amazing stuff, from the tiny bit I know of it, but I tend to see stories like this along the lines of replacement parts. Creating/regrowing something like a human hand will require some kind of host. Could nanotech provide that?

(I can't believe nobody has made a donkey dick joke yet....)

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