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originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: Krazysh0t
As I have said before, you are welcome to believe what ever you wish.
originally posted by: windword
originally posted by: dragonridr
originally posted by: windword
a reply to: seasonal
A 12 week fetus' brain, eyes, ears, nose and throat, aren't well enough developed to be useful in regard to medical usefulness, other than student research. Stem cells can be extracted whether or not the fetus and /or its head is in tact.
Actually stem cells are not needed anymore. We can manufacture them. The only thing us medical research such as learning how organs form. People want to make you think there us a huge market. There is not organs can't be used we don't need stem cells when they can be grown. So even medical research is limited.
What is your field of expertise, that you can make that claim.
But scientists also said that for some studies, fetal tissue remains essential, and that efforts to reduce an already-scarce supply could set back research on birth defects, spinal cord injuries, Parkinson's disease, eye diseases, and vaccines and treatments for HIV/AIDS, to name a few.
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Scientists say that newly developed stem cell technologies using adult cells have not yet been fully validated, and they still need to run tests with fetal cells to ensure their quality.
Last year, for example, Harvard Stem Cell Institute reported that neuronal stem cells extracted from fetal tissue and transplanted into the brains of Parkinson's disease patients helped them remain healthy and functional for as long as 14 years.
Researchers have also had success using fetal stem cells to treat spinal cord injuries.
Insoo Hyun, a bioethicist at Case Western Reserve University, said the newer, lab-derived cells have not been perfected and researchers still need fetal tissue to ensure that the reprogrammed cells are of comparable quality.