Stem cells could end animal testing
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- singrrr
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more from Green:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/12/22/stem.cell.drug.tests/index.html?...
As well as their potential for creating effective therapies for debilitating diseases, embryonic stem cells could open the door to improved pharmaceutical drug testing, according to a leading British stem cell researcher.Mummery, a Professor of Developmental Biology at Leiden University Medical Center in The Netherlands told CNN: "It could save a lot of time and effort of taking the wrong drugs through, or it may allow drugs through which are lost at an early stage, because they affect the animal cells but don't have an effect on human cells.
"It may also allow more and better drugs to come through the first tests or flag up safety issues at an earlier stage."
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numinant
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don't forget that vivisection is an industry and the only legal bastion of extreme sadism. not to mention that if it's dispensed with, it will lose its air of scientific and moral legitimacy thus undermining the reputations of vivisectors. a lot of things are at stake for them, but i don't think scientific progress is one of them.
- 1 year ago
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numinant
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idealist
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i sure hope it can, animal testing labaratories are filled with the worst horror stories. heartbreaking animal abuse and ilegal capturing of indangered species.
- 1 year ago
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idealist
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DistantPlanet
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Well, it's gonna happen one way or the other... whether the US is involved in this amazing future depends on public policy and opinions on stem cells.
- 1 year ago
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DistantPlanet
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dariusvons
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stem cells are like computer chips... "the wave of the future"... we can't even comprehend what these changes this will bring. and just as computer scientist had it made (more or less)over the last two decades, microbiologists, biochemists, and genetisists who will own the next few decades, and possibly centuries... that's all if the GOP doesn't get it's new world order.
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dariusvons
