U.S. stem cell line deemed too risky

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.msnbc.com/news/991813.asp?0cv=CB10

A medical ethics panel said Monday it would be unethical and risky to treat people with the embryonic stem cells approved by President Bush for federally funded research. The approved cell lines, created for possible future disease treatments, were initially grown on mouse cells. That could expose humans to an animal virus their immune systems couldn’t fight, the panel said. The experts said that safer stem cell lines now exist, but those would not be eligible for federal funding.

THE ETHICS PANEL announcement was the latest sign of the friction between stem cell scientists and Bush, who two years ago set limits on the controversial research which destroys human embryos.

Earlier this year, the director of the National Institutes of Health called on the president to lift his restrictions. And a number of scientists note that research into stem cells is progressing overseas.

A spokesman with Bush’s Health and Human Services Department said no one was available to comment on the ethics panel finding.

[Beetwasher]

1. This is Why The Admins "Compromise" Was Not a Compromise

and they knew it at the time as did all the scientists in the field and they said as much, but they were ignored.

Unfortunately for the US, stem cell research is the field that all the most promising young scientists are going into, which means that alot of them will be leaving the US in order to pursue the work.

The US is going to be left behind in this field which is going to be the medical technology of the future and COULD have been this generations version of Kennedy's moon mission. A real investment into this research would have had unimaginable returns for the country financially and medically/technologically.

[mzmolly]

3. Wow very interesting. Let's hope his ARSE is out in 04!

:(

[mzmolly]

2. But vaccines are made using animal tissue?

I'm imagine there is some difference according to the experts, I dunno?

Fargen Bush anyhow! My diabetic husband could benefit from the stem cell research he squelched GRRRR!

Thanks for the article. ;)

[underpants]

4. That "decision" is one of the worst of all time

And the most triangulated thing I think I have ever seen.

Well we can keep the fundies happy by not okaying any NEW cell lines and keep the fuzzy scientists happy by giving them access to the cells, of course 1/2 of the cell line are outside of the country and ALL of them are corrupted by mouse cells so research might (apparently not) be able to be done but no implimentation is possible.

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