Scientists: Stem cells created from eggs

[SarahB]

Scientists say they've created embryonic stem cells by stimulating unfertilized eggs, a significant step toward producing transplant tissue that's genetically matched to women.

The advance suggests that someday, a woman who wants a transplant to treat a condition like diabetes or a spinal cord injury could provide eggs to a lab, which in turn could create tissue that her body wouldn't reject.

Ethicists disagreed on whether the strategy would avoid the long-standing ethical objections to creating embryonic stem cells by other means.

Such cells can develop into virtually any tissue of the body, and scientists hope to harness them for producing specialized tissues like nerve cells or pancreas cells to treat a range of illnesses. But the process of harvesting the stem cells destroys embryos, which many people oppose.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070628/ap_on_he_me/stem_cells

[librechik]

1. Gee--I wonder what the bible says about that?

I suppose we'll find out soon

[blogslut]

2. LOL!

Yeah. I suppose you're right. Sigh.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. The thumpers can bite me. The authors of the Bible had no clue eggs

even existed. And since they were fond of miraculous healings, I say let this one pass already.

[SarahB]

4. Every gamete is sacred!

Or something like that. :eyes:

[MuseRider]

5. God will be quite irate!

Indeed.

[Warpy]

6. No, the homunculi were only in semen

Homunculi were tiny, perfect male human beings, sort of like when you open a soaked bean and see a tiny bean plant between the two halves of bean. Since this was decided by men, they decided that men produced the seeds and women were the flowerpots.

Children who emerged from the flowerpot female meant something was wrong with the soil--it was ill or practicing witchcraft to damage the tiny perfect male planted within it.

And this, kiddies, is why we should never allow churchmen to practice medicine or science.

[Kadie]

7. I wonder what the reaction to this will be

Such an approach could not provide matched cells for men, of course.