I want ethics in medical research?
Bullshit !
I want a cure !
The controversy began in late August, when ACT Vice President of Research and Scientific Development Robert Lanza published a paper describing a new technique in the peer-reviewed journal Nature. According to the paper, the technique enabled scientists to develop human embryonic stem cells with a single-cell biopsy technique that was not harmful to embryos. (click on title)
This is a government that cares? NO. This is a government that has no use for cures that affect the profits of pharmaceutical companies !
Current human embryonic stem cell lines contaminated UCSD/Salk team finds (click on)
Currently available lines of human embryonic stem cells have been contaminated with a non-human molecule that compromises their potential therapeutic use in human subjects, according to research by investigators at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.
In a study published online January 23, 2005 in the journal Nature Medicine, the researchers found that human embryonic stem cells, including those currently approved for study under federal funding in the U.S., contain a non-human, cell-surface sialic acid called N-glycolylneuraminic acid (Neu5Gc), even though human cells are genetically unable to make it. In a related paper published November 29, 2004 by the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), the Varki group has also discovered the exact cellular mechanism by which this occurs.
