Stem Cell Cures
The Right To Life Committee of New Mexico (RTLCNM) supports the use of stem cells for medical purposes, as long as the stem cells are not taken from an embryo, which then causes that human life to die. There has not been one cure ever established using embryonic stem cells, but there have been tumors and death from using these types of cells.
The
University
of
Kentucky
has coaxed stem cells from adult mice to change into brain, heart, nerve, and pancreatic cells mimicking embryonic stem cells. Now “a lot of people report the presence of embryonic-like cells in adults,” said Dr. Mariusz Ratjczak, leader of the research team and Director of the Stem-Cell Biology Program at the
University
of
Kentucky
at Louisville’s
James
Graham
Brown
Cancer
Center
.
The
University
of
Illinois
says related discoveries have been announced by at least five other laboratories. The
University
of
Illinois
has identified a similar type of stem cell in human umbilical cord blood and described their findings in July at the annual meeting of the International Society of Stem Cell Research in
Toronto
.
German researchers publishing in Nature said sperm stem cells from adult mouse testis have the capacity to form other cells. And researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in
New York
described promising cells in the adult mouse heart.
“Those are real solid confirmations,” said Arthur Caplan, a nationally known bioethicist at the
University
of
Pennsylvania
. “That’s exactly what you look for when you claim a breakthrough.”
