Comments on Secondhand Smoke: Your 24/7 Seminar on Bioethics and the Importance of Being Human: Stem Cell Cornucopia in the After Birth

So you have non-controversial sources for potentia...

2007-01-08T17:27:00.000-08:00

So you have non-controversial sources for potential treatments, flexible cells that carry less risk than the controversial sources, and you get a small person to boot. This may be old news but it's good to see that people are taking it seriously.

Keep all this in mind when you buy flowers for all the mamas you know on Mother's Day.

I think what is the news is that they are apparent...

2007-01-08T13:52:00.000-08:00

I think what is the news is that they are apparently close to pluripotent in that they have been morphed into cells from the three types. Also, easier to collect.

I'm confused as well. All the reports I've seen i...

2007-01-08T11:18:00.000-08:00

I'm confused as well. All the reports I've seen indicate that this is "new" news. But I thought ESCs coming from umbilical cords/ amniocentesis was "old" news.

Maybe they figured out a way to cultivate the umbilical ESCs better or something, but I can't figure out what is new about this.

There must be something big going on here because ...

2007-01-08T10:39:00.000-08:00

There must be something big going on here because even the Reno Gazette Journal picked it up and said it was an non-embryonic stem cell source. Holy Second Hand Smokes. Usually they call it a stem cell success without saying the source is non-embryonic.

My question is whether or not this is old news. I think your first sentence indicates it is. Why are they catching up now? Could there be any political cover for opposing HR 3? Probably not.

I stilll can't believe Robert Lanza gets quoted. The AP has to know he's duped them. There has to be someone better, though Maureen Condic suggested that there are fewer embryonic stem cell research supporters in her First Things essay. Could that be true too?