Do you think this might influence the hearts and minds of diabetics who are opposed to stem cell research on moral or religious grounds?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article1637528.ece
"Diabetics using stem-cell therapy have been able to stop taking insulin injections for the first time, after their bodies started to produce the hormone naturally again.
In a breakthrough trial, 15 young patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes were given drugs to suppress their immune systems followed by transfusions of stem cells drawn from their own blood....."
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2007-04-11 08:51:45 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am an insulin dependent diabetic and news like this is truly amazing.
2007-04-11 09:01:12 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ terry g ♥ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-17 10:19:58 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-17 21:01:45 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stem cells have the potential to diffentiate into any cell type. It has long been hoped that this property would allow treatments to be developed using stem cells to repair tissues which do not normally repair themselves. As far as I know, the only situtation in which stem cells have been used successfully in clinical practice is in bone marrow replacement after total body irradiation for treatment of certain hematological malignancies. Potentially stem cells could be used to replace damaged neurons in patients with Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer.s disease, replace damaged liver cells in acute liver failure, replace insulin producing cells in diabetes and so on. However we're not at the point where these things can be done clinically as a routine treatment. Eventually, hopefully, their potential will be realized.
2016-03-19 01:14:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I kind of like the idea of stem cell research. I think that religious people think that it would make God look bad.
Hopefully people can be objective about it. I don't know the limitations of it but I think it could go a long way to help with re-creating organs or limbs to help those who need replacements. The most we have been able to culture so far is a little skin and some ears on the back of a mice. what if we could grow a human arm.
2007-04-11 08:56:16 · answer #5 · answered by NONAME 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think they have a problem with stem cells "drawn from their own blood", but they do have a problem getting stem cells from 150 cell embryos which are created and then prevented from developing.
2007-04-11 08:55:15 · answer #6 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Science finds the beginning of a cure for Diabetes. That is wonderful.
Of course the religious won't think so, once again Science trumps prayers and is the first to provide a cure for disease.
2007-04-11 09:12:22 · answer #7 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not embryonic stem cell research. The study was done using a persons own srem cells.
2007-04-11 09:03:08 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is tragic that valuable scientific research is being impeded by some idiotic religion.
Thank God Europe does not have an infestation of Christian fundies to halt medical research.
2007-04-11 08:58:12 · answer #9 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that stem cells, and their research are miraculous. Look what God has made available through great science and technology.
2007-04-11 08:56:05 · answer #10 · answered by Je veux changer le monde 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋