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March 30th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Has anyone considered how one actually gets human eggs?
Unlike the easy ability to obtain sperm out of a man’s body, to obtain a woman’s eggs she must undergo hormonal treatment to induce ovulation and then have a medical procedure. Whether if she is seeking fertility treatment or being offered money for her time to retrieve an extra number of her eggs for medical science isn’t anyone concern about the exploitation of women’s bodies?
I’m also concern regarding the misrepresentation of those who are against embryos in stem cell research. There are plenty of alternatives to embryos, all without destroying life.
The other benefit from these alternatives is no worry of body rejection. If stem cells are created from one’s own bone marrow or other numerous parts of the body in which new cells rejuvenate, such as a woman’s own uterine lining she sheds with every menstruation, there is no worry of rejection.
We should be as a matter of law be collecting umbilical cord blood from newborns to be shared for stem cells for the entire population. Right now to store cord blood privately for private use is too expensive for the average family.
I only wish that our civil laws obey natural law and recognize the women’s eggs and men’s sperm have one purpose only and that is to procreate. Not just for playing around with human DNA.
Lynne, I know we are opposing side of this issue, but I hope I could share the scientific alternatives.
March 30th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Why again is the state funding stem cell research??
Shouldn’t it be left to the private industry?
April 1st, 2007 at 5:13 am
I thought this was an April Fools Hoax, but it is dated March 27th. And this is being done without human mebryoes. Pretty scary.
http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=444436&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=
Scientists have created the world’s first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs.
The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells - and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer.
Professor Esmail Zanjani, of the University of Nevada, has spent seven years and £5million perfecting the technique, which involves injecting adult human cells into a sheep’s foetus.
He has already created a sheep liver which has a large proportion of human cells and eventually hopes to precisely match a sheep to a transplant patient, using their own stem cells to create their own flock of sheep.
The process would involve extracting stem cells from the donor’s bone marrow and injecting them into the peritoneum of a sheep’s foetus. When the lamb is born, two months later, it would have a liver, heart, lungs and brain that are partly human and available for transplant.
“We would take a couple of ounces of bone marrow cells from the patient,’ said Prof Zanjani, whose work is highlighted in a Channel 4 programme tomorrow.
“We would isolate the stem cells from them, inject them into the peritoneum of these animals and then these cells would get distributed throughout the metabolic system into the circulatory system of all the organs in the body. The two ounces of stem cell or bone marrow cell we get would provide enough stem cells to do about ten foetuses. So you don’t just have one organ for transplant purposes, you have many available in case the first one fails.”