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uxo_tech
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 Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:46 am Post subject: Human stem cell tests could be near |
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I have to admit I'm a bit boggled by the lack of meaningful discussion on the ethics and direction of this technology... emphasis on meaningful I might add.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The first experiments using human embryonic stem cells in human subjects could begin within a few months, the chief executive of biotech Geron said Monday.
At the annual BIO CEO conference in New York, Dr. Thomas Okarma said Geron plans to start embryonic stem-cell studies in humans with spinal cord injuries toward the end of the second quarter. Okarma said the tests would involve up to 40 human patients, while all prior tests involved rats.
This assumes that the Food and Drug Administration gives Geron a green light to proceed with the human test. Okarma said the FDA will set a "high bar" in regulating this new type of science.
Ren Benjamin, analyst for Rodman & Renshaw, believes the regulatory process could be time-consuming, because it's unprecedented. |
http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/11/news/companies/geron/?postversion=2008021209 |
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| I guess they've also found ways of synthesizing an embryo from normal tissue cells. There was a post about this (http://www.theblackvault.com/ftopict-66897.html) down below. There are a lot of issues surrounding this. The embryos they create should, in principle, be viable to develop into full term human infants. Scientists do a lot of things, it seems, just because they can. And we are rapidly approaching a stage where we need to ask questions about whether that is sufficient reason to explore certain research areas. |
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