Timothy Birdnow

Science is overtaking the stem-cell debate.  This from Lifenews:

"Palo Alto, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Scientists have made a major breakthrough using the process known as direct reprogramming that further renders embryonic stem cell research obsolete. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have succeeded in transforming mouse skin cells directly into functional nerve cells.

With the application of just three genes, the new cells make the change without first becoming a pluripotent type of stem cell -- such as an embryonic stem cell.

That is a step long thought to be required for cells to acquire new identities.

"We actively and directly induced one cell type to become a completely different cell type," said Marius Wernig, MD, assistant professor of pathology and a member of Stanford's Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.

"These are fully functional neurons. They can do all the principal things that neurons in the brain do." '

Read the entire piece here http://www.lifenews.com/bio3043.html

Yet the One and his fellows in the Court of Kings will continue to ram fetal stem cell research down the American throat.  Why?  Because it has never been about research and medicine, and has had everything to do with putting research under the thumb of government, and of advancing the culture of death, which strongly appeals to so many on the Left because it gives them the illusion of Divine authority,

Were this about the science Obama would propose to wait a bit, to see where research like this is heading. After all, James Thompson, the man who developed the first line of pluripotent embryonic stem cells, was deeply disturbed by his own work, and labored to develop a method to convert other cells into embryonic stem cells. Why, if it isn't a morally unjustifiable thing, was Thompson concerned?  Essentially, an embryo is cloned and harvested, much like veal is bred, raised and slaughtered for the table.  (embryonic stem-cells; the other white meat!) This is a very disturbing thing, and, due to the tendency to become cancerous, fetal stem cells have produced no treatments to date. An Israeli boy was treated experimentally and became riddled with cancer.

Yet the forces of leftism cannot rest, for in the power of life and death they achieve their godhead.

This new development illustrates the hubris of our current crop all the more.

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