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Ethical Stem Cell Breakthrough: blood made from skin

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This is amazing news and it could go into clinical trials as soon as 2012. Using a small patch of your own skin, scientists can now make enough blood to allow you to have an operation. Further, because this is made from human adult cells, it does not run the risk of creating tumors like embryonic stem cell manipulation does. Its also very fast and efficient so it doesn't require as many steps, and not nearly as much time, as when using embryonic cells "harvested" from abortions.

Canadian :flagcan: Scientists turn skin into blood

Stem cell researchers have found a way to turn a person's skin into blood, a process that could be used to treat cancer and other ailments, according to a Canadian study published Sunday.

The method uses cells from a patch of a person's skin and transforms it into blood that is a genetic match, without using human embryonic stem cells, said the study in the journal Nature. By avoiding the controversial and more complicated processes involved with using human embryonic stem cells to create blood, this approach simplifies the process, researchers said.

"What we believe we can do in the future is generate blood in a much more efficient manner," said study author Mick Bhatia of the McMaster's Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute in the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine.

With the ability to create blood for transfusion from a person's own skin, the advance means someday patients needing blood for surgery or to treat anemia could bypass the blood bank and derive the necessary supply from themselves.

The breakthrough could also see future uses such as allowing patients undergoing chemotherapy to endure a longer regime of treatment without the breaks currently needed to rejuvenate the body. . .

Stem cells that are derived from human embryos hold significant promise for medical breakthroughs but also carry risks, such as the potential to create tumors. But researchers say their new method can create enough blood for a transfusion from a four by three centimeter (1.6 by 1.2 inch) patch of adult human skin, and can avoid those potential hurdles.

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FULL STORY AT LINK => http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/afp/scienceuscanadablood
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Has anyone noticed there has been a plethora of promises over embryonic stem cells, but every major advance has been through adult stem cell research?
 
loboloco said:
. . . but every major advance has been through adult stem cell research?
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Yup.

In fact there are no current medical treatments that have been developed from embryonic stem cell research, while there have been literally hundreds of medical applications that have come from ethical adult stem cell research.

The media, and a large % of Democratic politicians, constantly overlook the facts and have been and still are pushing for more and more embryonic stem cell research. I don't know if it is because they feel guilty about the abortions they favor and want some good to come from those procedures (murders), or if they honestly believe that it is needed to do research despite the lack of results.

The media clearly muddies up reports too. They often claim politicians and churches are opposed to "stem cell" research when in fact most times the politician or the congregation is actually only opposed to fetal/embryonic stem cell research that requires the abortion of a fetus (baby) to obtain the cells.
 
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