Vatican Puts $1 Million Behind Adult Stem Cell Research

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The Catholic Church is teaming up with a biotech firm that is engaging in adult stem cell research — helping prove its contention that it is supportive of stem cell research without destroying human life.

The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture has announced steps forward in their partnership designed to advance adult stem cell research with NeoStem, an international biopharmaceutical company.

In a press conference at the Vatican, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Dr. Robin L. Smith, Chairman and CEO of NeoStem, and Reverend Tomasz Trafny, Head of the Science and Faith Department at the Pontifical Council for Culture, provided further details on both their ongoing partnership and on a groundbreaking event the international Vatican conference on adult stem cells which is scheduled for November 9 – 11, 2011 at the Vatican.

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Considering how much money Rome has, many will say it’s a drop in the bucket. When it comes to research 1million won’t get you very far.

However, I’m glad to see that the Church is making an effort to really show that they practice what they preach. So much of what Catholics are infamous for is not practicing what they preach.

I honestly think that it will be whatever gets the most money put behind it that will develop into the future of medicine. I find embronic stem cells hugely creepy, but just like with vaccines today, in 40 years their may be no escape if the church dosn’t step in.
 
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