Free Hot Dogs and Beer with Every Gram of Harvested Stem Cells!

...in our administration's eyes anyway. But really, how could someone with such a poor grasp of the english language graduate from Yale University?

Sorry. So, anyone still think stem cells are the biological equivalent of the death penalty?

"But Jeff, dont u no that evry stem cell is a little baby whos life was wasted for youre persuit of scientistic tyranny?" Translation: I see your point sir, but my rebuttal to said theory is that for each and every individual stem cell harvested, a precursor to a human life form must suffer, and will therefore not be allowed to blossom into the person they were destined by god to be.

EX-cept that god (I should be capatilizing that, huh?) was not a fucking molecular biologist, was he/she/it? Now, I'm not a fan of asking rhetorical questions in order to prove a point, but really folks.

From this point on please, shrug off all religious connotations and biblical passages. We all know what page the author is on, so there needn't be any further fussing over anyone's moral obligations and/or religious convictions. But, the truth is that human stem cells are THE new crack for the scientific research community. Physiologists, bioligists and chemists alike can't seem to get enough of them. Litearally, seeing how stem cell research is severly limited in this country. You ask why stem cells are the newest biological addiction? Well, they are the answer. To everything medical, really.

An australian article I happened across today (found here,) briefly describes a new trial in which stem cells were harvested from the bone marrow of patients with type-1 diabetes mellitus, and the cells transplanted (not sure where or how from the article.) Net results: no insulin needed for 3 years. Talk about a fucking medical breakthrough! The impact of this is going to be huge. Who knows what other diseases can be cured - Duschenne's Muscular Dystrophy, maybe even Alzheimers disease. Take a stem cell, which is undifferentiated, and plop is down in a culture of any kind of human tissue you choose. You want to grow some more liver cells, you got yourself some fucking liver cells sonny. But at what price? Well, one that many people don't think is worth paying. The issue of harvesting stem cells from human embryos has been stunted, perhaps for a long time. It just gives us an annex to the abortion issue. Another shutoff to this research is the potential that it could lead to human cloning (which, full human cloning really isn't a great idea.)

But that's just what our science and technology does for our society. At the base level, it just introduces a completely new issue nobody saw coming, and expects a greatly divided society to figure it out.

One more apology about how these articles are so convoluded and long. I am sitting here as my brain just cascades down the river of causality, like what would happen if humans were cloned, etc. This artcle's main function was to show the huge benefit that using human stem cells can bring, and to elaborate some silly details about the social issues found within. And now I have to go to class, which sucks a little bit.