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Where are the miracle cures?

Traveler

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Do you all remember all of the "Miracle Cures" that would be discovered with Embyonic stem cells, if only George W Bush wasn't President? How is that working out? I don't remember hearing about any of these new miracle cures or of the left telling of new discoveries from the DNC convention/freak show. Maybe I just wasn't paying attention and got tired of listening to all of the calls for free sh!t. Someone please enlighten.
 

Steve

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thanks to the outrage.. they may never be needed...

Adult Stem Cell Researchers Win Nobel Medicine Prize

"We can’t keep destroying embryos for our research," said Shinya Yamanaka of his motivation.


The Nobel Assembly has awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, researchers who discovered a way to develop stem cells from adult skin cells—thus removing the need to use and destroy human embryos.

The Nobel Assembly states that Gurdon and Yamanaka's discovery revolutionizes "the dogma" that stem cells could only be derived from immature cells, such as those of human embryos.

The pair jointly received the prize for their "discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent." These pluripotent cells are able to develop into any tissue of the human body.

Embryonic stem-cell research "has long been controversial—which is one reason why Yamanaka's discovery of an alternate way to obtain human stem cells, without the use of embryos, is so important."

But the "paradigm-shifting discovery" is almost 40 years in the making. In 1962, Gurdon, a British researcher, discovered that mature "specialized" cells can reverse themselves, still containing all the necessary information to develop all immature cells. In 2006, Yamanaka, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes, reprogrammed the first adult cells to become immature human stem cells.

In 2007, Yamanaka told the New York Times he was inspired to pursue alternatives to embryonic stem-cell research when he was invited to view a stored human embryo during a visit to a friend's fertility clinic.

“I thought, we can’t keep destroying embryos for our research," he said. "There must be another way.”

Inspiration can appear in unexpected places. Dr. Shinya Yamanaka found it while looking through a microscope at a friend’s fertility clinic. … [H]e looked down the microscope at one of the human embryos stored at the clinic. The glimpse changed his scientific career. “When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters,” said Dr. Yamanaka. … “I thought, we can’t keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.”

Yamanaka transformed that debate forever.

maybe the other Nobel prize winner should be listening to some guys who earned theirs..

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S.S.A.P.

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The work of the 2012 recipient is way over my head .... but for the life of me I still can not understand WHY Obama can claim such an honor?!?!?!?
 

okfarmer

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S.S.A.P. said:
The work of the 2012 recipient is way over my head .... but for the life of me I still can not understand WHY Obama can claim such an honor?!?!?!?

Maybe your question is wrong. Is it the quality of the recipient that is foul, or is it the nobleness of the prize?

I once thought more of the Nobel Peace Prize, but the more you research it, the more apparent it is that it is a very skewed organization that doesn't warrant my admiration. The college football BCS system is far less controversial and transparent and that is saying something.
 

Traveler

Well-known member
Steve said:
thanks to the outrage.. they may never be needed...

Adult Stem Cell Researchers Win Nobel Medicine Prize

"We can’t keep destroying embryos for our research," said Shinya Yamanaka of his motivation.


The Nobel Assembly has awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, researchers who discovered a way to develop stem cells from adult skin cells—thus removing the need to use and destroy human embryos.

The Nobel Assembly states that Gurdon and Yamanaka's discovery revolutionizes "the dogma" that stem cells could only be derived from immature cells, such as those of human embryos.

The pair jointly received the prize for their "discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent." These pluripotent cells are able to develop into any tissue of the human body.

Embryonic stem-cell research "has long been controversial—which is one reason why Yamanaka's discovery of an alternate way to obtain human stem cells, without the use of embryos, is so important."

But the "paradigm-shifting discovery" is almost 40 years in the making. In 1962, Gurdon, a British researcher, discovered that mature "specialized" cells can reverse themselves, still containing all the necessary information to develop all immature cells. In 2006, Yamanaka, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes, reprogrammed the first adult cells to become immature human stem cells.

In 2007, Yamanaka told the New York Times he was inspired to pursue alternatives to embryonic stem-cell research when he was invited to view a stored human embryo during a visit to a friend's fertility clinic.

“I thought, we can’t keep destroying embryos for our research," he said. "There must be another way.”

Inspiration can appear in unexpected places. Dr. Shinya Yamanaka found it while looking through a microscope at a friend’s fertility clinic. … [H]e looked down the microscope at one of the human embryos stored at the clinic. The glimpse changed his scientific career. “When I saw the embryo, I suddenly realized there was such a small difference between it and my daughters,” said Dr. Yamanaka. … “I thought, we can’t keep destroying embryos for our research. There must be another way.”

Yamanaka transformed that debate forever.

maybe the other Nobel prize winner should be listening to some guys who earned theirs..
[/quote]This must be such a disappointment for the left. I was also hoping that Obama voters could have the ESC implanted in their rectums, so as the close proximity to their heads would cause much needed brain cells to grow. Now all is lost.
 
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