Stem-cell Scientist Reports Meeting Resistance

[Rosalinda]

This is no surprise considering the drive to promote hEScells no matter what the cost. If this report had been about embryonic stem cells there is no doubt it wouldn’t have taken 7 years to bring this good news to light.

• One of the scientists responsible for a breakthrough in stem-cell research has reported that he encountered heavy resistance to the publication of his work because it used stem cells obtained from amniotic fluids rather than from embryonic tissues.

Paolo De Coppi told the Italian ANSA news agency that a groundbreaking paper published this week in Nature Biotechnology had previously been rejected by four different journals. “It took seven years to get our paper published,” he said. De Coppi and his colleague, Anthony Atala, demonstrated that stem cells derived from amniotic fluid could be used to generate many different types of body tissues, which could be used in the treatment of diseases. For the purposes of medical research, their paper argued, the stem cells taken from amniotic fluid show more promise than those obtained from human embryos

ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=74730

 

[WanderAimlessly]

I think this is further proof that some think you cannot have medical breakthroughs without the death of some. Wasn’t that one of the main ideas of Dr. Mengele?

 

[Joe_Kelley]

A telling reflection on the supposed impartiality of peer reviewed scientific journals.

 

[estesbob]

I think this is further proof that some think you cannot have medical breakthroughs without the death of some. Wasn’t that one of the main ideas of Dr. Mengele?

Fetal Embyonic stem cell research is very much a stalking horse for abortion.

 

[ribozyme]

This is no surprise considering the drive to promote hEScells no matter what the cost. If this report had been about embryonic stem cells there is no doubt it wouldn’t have taken 7 years to bring this good news to light.

ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=74730

Here is the link the actual article (unfortunately I do not have access)

nature.com/nbt/journal/v25/n1/abs/nbt1274.html

Anthony Atala, demonstrated that stem cells derived from amniotic fluid could be used to generate many different types of body tissues, which could be used in the treatment of diseases. For the purposes of medical research, their paper argued, the stem cells taken from amniotic fluid show more promise than those obtained from human embryos

I doubt this paper will supress optimism in embryonic stem cell research. Is there any excerpt FROM THE ORGINAL ARTICLE that shows this will completely eliminate the need for embryonic stem cell research? In other words, is there something that embryonic stem cells can potentially do that the ones from amniotic fluid can’t? If there is, then this has not eliminated the need for embryonic stem cell research. Of course, I am interest in one supporting their argument with the information in the paper.

I am sorry for this, but I have learned that deriving scientific knowledge from press releases is not a good idea; it is best that one gets their knowledge from a peer-reviewed journal.

 

[Rosalinda]

Ribozyme, On what grounds can you say there is a pressing need to create and destroy human embryos when there are somatic stem cells, available in abundance from ethical sources, and which have demonstrated remarkable abilities? To date, what patient do you know was ever injected with a human embryonic stem cell? Do you know of a single clinical application today for hESC’s? Can you find a single human trial in existence today?

[sign]I have learned that deriving scientific knowledge from press releases is not a good idea; it is best that one gets their knowledge from a peer-reviewed journal.[/sign]

I agree Ribozyme. Are you aware it has been the proponents for hESC’s which have published fiction as fact on at least two occasions?

Last summer Nature published the claim of Advanced Cell Technology ACT that single blastomeres had been successfully removed from sixteen early embryos without harming or destroying them. In point of fact, none survived.

What about Dr. Hwang WS, the Korean researcher? In 2005 Science published “Patient specific embryonic stem cells derived form human SCNT blastocysts” His claims to have created scores of cloned human embryos and eleven ES cell lines proved fraudulent too.

We don’t need to lie, cheat and kill to save lives. We can practice good science based on good ethics the first principle of which is “Do no harm.”