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Embroyonic Stem Cells

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kathleen

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The Diabetes OC is astir right now over the current Congressional votes on embryonic stem cell research.

I’m personally against the federal government supporting embryonic stem cell research.

I believe that other stem cell research shows much more promise and needs to be researched long before we go so far as embryonic stem cell research.

Already, embryonic stem cell research has crossed ethical boundaries — results have been falsied, etc. and I think its just something to completely stay away from until all other research has been exhausted.

I also don’t think you are going to get very far with transplants, or other replacements of the pancreas until you find out why the body is destroying beta cells in the first place.

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    I actually work in Diabetes research and I agree you have an excellent point. Transplantation of beta-cells back into the patient’s pancreas would not work well as the body would simply destroy those as well. With immunosuppressants to stop this destruction, life would be even worse for a diabetic. Finding out exactly why these cells are destroyed, is a much better question to first answer and then to use transplantion. I agree totally!

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    I actually work in Diabetes research and I agree you have an excellent point. Transplantation of beta-cells back into the patient’s pancreas would not work well as the body would simply destroy those as well. With immunosuppressants to stop this destruction, life would be even worse for a diabetic. Finding out exactly why these cells are destroyed, is a much better question to first answer and then to use transplantion. I agree totally!

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