The Global Medical Research Blog.

With stem cell research advancing as it is, this generation and the next will truly be blessed with the greatest gift of all.   That is the gift of good health and hopefully longevity….. Our children, and our childrens children will only be a few short months away from having SAFE implants without dangerous anti-immunity drugs.  Diabetes, Cancer, Parkinsons, Bone disease, diseases of the kidney, spine, blindness, deafness, and most other plaques upon humanity will be erased thanks to this generation of medical research.

Our primary focus should be directed at the least difficult of diseases to heal such as diabetes in order to learn how to use this knowledge to our best benefit.

Tom Nichols:  President Global Medical Research Fund.

With the current changes to federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, the future truly looks bright, however we don’t know how long it will be before the pendulum swings in the other direction.

Currently embryonic stem cell research can be performed with federal funding only on stem cell lines from left over from in-vitro fertilization labs, and those cannot be used for somatic transfer… another way of putting this is that therapeutic cloning cannot take place under the new guidelines.

As some people understand: this type of cloning can be used to clone cells from someone with a disease:  for example cells containing the Parkinson’s disease and the genetic markers.  From this point researchers could watch as the disease develops and use this information to create drugs which would inhibit the disease from ever developing in the human host.

Then we have reproductive cloning which is what we see in the movies:  Not one stem cell researcher has proposed the cloning of human beings, And yet we have people who are afraid this will happen!!!

It is a profound mistake to “outlaw” therapeutic cloning, yet Congress has done just that.  As you can see there are real differences between these two approaches to cloning—Let’s hope that this law is withdrawn soon.

What is your opinion?