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Empty Hope Of Stem Cell Science
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Submitted by Alicia, Dec 26, 2006 20:18

Sorry you think I'm a whack job but you obviously aren't familiar with my previous columns. I only mentioned the Toronto doctors to show researchers who are thinking outside the box to search for answers instead of relying on ESCR. According to those doctors, they were treating type 1 diabetic mice. If you can prove otherwise, good for you.

I had already written a piece about the diabetic research being done at the City of Hope Medical Center in Calif. Doctors I interviewed explained that islet transplants from a donated pancreas can effect a permanent cure. I wrote the column to urge the public to sign the back of their licenses authorizing organ donations.

Incidentally, I don't write the headings of my columns. My column referred only to the empty hope of Embryonic stem cell research. Happy Holiday to you, too.

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I am certainly pro-life, and have always been so. All of my life, I had been smugly proud to be... [MORE]

Paul 

Jun 6, 2007 18:31

While Alicia Colon is technically correct in that there is "no bank" on embryonic stem cell research in the U.S.,... [MORE]

Scott 

Dec 28, 2006 16:28

NEWS FLASH - Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder where the body destroys the capability of the islet cells... [MORE]

Bill Lang 

Dec 23, 2006 11:48

Sorry you think I'm a whack job but you obviously aren't familiar with my previous columns. I only mentioned the...

Alicia 

Dec 26, 2006 20:18

I shouldn't have to string together your comments from other articles to understand your point. A good article stands on... [MORE]

Bill Lang 

Jan 20, 2007 09:46

As the editor in chief of Stem Cells and Development, a peer reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.,... [MORE]

Denis English, Ph.D. 

Dec 22, 2006 19:23

Alicia, I have one correction to your article. You note that the native population is dwindling in Europe but that... [MORE]

Rich 

Dec 22, 2006 12:48

Did not want you to miss this article. Outstanding. [MORE]

Rick 

Dec 22, 2006 08:12

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