13th April 2003, 1:04 AM
Wow... That's a pretty long conspiracy rant...
On another note, some people don't seem to understand stem cells. Allow me to point something out. Stem cells aren't JUST from fetuses! For that matter, while stem cell RESEARCH is helped by cultivating those, people won't be helped by using OTHER HUMAN'S cells. Stem cells aren't completely blank cells. That's a misconception. They are rather "base" that ARE based on the DNA of whatever organism uses them. They aren't universal. The stem cells of spiders for instance are constructed differently from that of the stem cells of humans. This is because of the DNA. Stem cells can ONLY become the types of cells that the DNA is designed to make. Spider stem cells can only become complete cells for spider tissues. In other words, you can't create a pizza restaurant with creative use of stem cells.
Here is the more important thing though. If you used another human's stem cells to make a replacement heart for yourself, your body would reject it the same as it would a transplanted organ, because the stem cells would have replicated and replicated using their DNA, since that's all they can do. The reason for study is to learn how best to use a person's OWN stem cells to replicate organs. Unless a person uses their own stem cells, there will be rejection just like inserting any other human's organs into your body will do. It's using your own stem cells, IE, your own genetic code, that prevents rejection because it's actually a part of your own body. Thus, the only reason that fetus cultivating is being done is for the RESEARCH. There are no plans to actually use the foreign stem cells for other people because that would result in the same rejection as standard organ transplant. Again, the goal is to find the best way to cultivate remaining stem cells from grown humans (even grown humans still have some stem cells, they are just very rare, and get rarer as you get older) in order to cultivate organs that have the same genetic code.
I'm not sure if this was even mentioned, but it's been a pet peeve of mine that people seem to misunderstand exactly what a stem cell is. With this information in mind, I am FOR stem cell research (after all, fetuses aren't the only source nor are they even the desired way to replicate organs since that wouldn't be compatible genetically).
On another note, some people don't seem to understand stem cells. Allow me to point something out. Stem cells aren't JUST from fetuses! For that matter, while stem cell RESEARCH is helped by cultivating those, people won't be helped by using OTHER HUMAN'S cells. Stem cells aren't completely blank cells. That's a misconception. They are rather "base" that ARE based on the DNA of whatever organism uses them. They aren't universal. The stem cells of spiders for instance are constructed differently from that of the stem cells of humans. This is because of the DNA. Stem cells can ONLY become the types of cells that the DNA is designed to make. Spider stem cells can only become complete cells for spider tissues. In other words, you can't create a pizza restaurant with creative use of stem cells.
Here is the more important thing though. If you used another human's stem cells to make a replacement heart for yourself, your body would reject it the same as it would a transplanted organ, because the stem cells would have replicated and replicated using their DNA, since that's all they can do. The reason for study is to learn how best to use a person's OWN stem cells to replicate organs. Unless a person uses their own stem cells, there will be rejection just like inserting any other human's organs into your body will do. It's using your own stem cells, IE, your own genetic code, that prevents rejection because it's actually a part of your own body. Thus, the only reason that fetus cultivating is being done is for the RESEARCH. There are no plans to actually use the foreign stem cells for other people because that would result in the same rejection as standard organ transplant. Again, the goal is to find the best way to cultivate remaining stem cells from grown humans (even grown humans still have some stem cells, they are just very rare, and get rarer as you get older) in order to cultivate organs that have the same genetic code.
I'm not sure if this was even mentioned, but it's been a pet peeve of mine that people seem to misunderstand exactly what a stem cell is. With this information in mind, I am FOR stem cell research (after all, fetuses aren't the only source nor are they even the desired way to replicate organs since that wouldn't be compatible genetically).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)