Adult stem cells have been used in more successfull therapies than embryonic. The latest from New Scientist:
Treatment with adult stem cells has cured mice suffering with a form of multiple sclerosis, say Italian researchers. Almost a third of the mice recovered completely from paralysis of their back legs, and the rest all showed substantial improvement."It was amazing," says Angelo Vescovi, of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan. He has now begun experiments giving human adult stem cells to monkeys with the nerve and brain damage seen in MS. But he warns that success in mice does not guarantee success in humans: "I wouldn't want to raise expectations."
With success after success for adult stem cell therapies, and setback upon setback for embryonic stem cell therapies, why is there such a push to do such ethically troubling work? Could there be a political agenda?
Naah. I'll leave the dark conspiracies to Bubba. He's better at them than I am.
Posted by Rich at April 17, 2003 11:48 AM | TrackBack