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Alberta woman 1st adult in Canada to be ‘cured’ of sickle cell anemia
Hello everyone, It’s not far off! http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1705342?query=featured_home
And here’s a YouTube video about it: http://www.nejm.org/do/10.1056/NEJMdo005273/full/
(I’m not sure if you knew about this trial already, or you’re just exited to see a cure come along. Sorry if you already knew!)
As far as I understand, the process of extracting stem cells destroys the embryo they came from. Stem cell research is only done with stem cells that come from embryos that are leftover from IVF or have harmful genetic diseases. However it’s super easy to contort the message into “stem cell research kills babies” which is a nice clickable sensationalist headline. Some people thought that doctors would be in cahoots with researchers and sabatoge pregnancies for more stem cells. Then they split the profit from the research. Crazy stuff like that. You’d think that people would get riled up over it since it can closely relate to the pro choice pro life argument. Maybe I’m overestimating people but I like to think more people understand the benefits of stem cell research now and sensationalist headlines about it are largely in the past.
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Hello everyone, It’s not far off! http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1705342?query=featured_home
And here’s a YouTube video about it: http://www.nejm.org/do/10.1056/NEJMdo005273/full/
(I’m not sure if you knew about this trial already, or you’re just exited to see a cure come along. Sorry if you already knew!)
As far as I understand, the process of extracting stem cells destroys the embryo they came from. Stem cell research is only done with stem cells that come from embryos that are leftover from IVF or have harmful genetic diseases. However it’s super easy to contort the message {“1″:2,”2″:”https://kodi.bio/”}” data-sheets-userformat=”https://kodi.bio/ into “stem cell research kills babies” which is a nice clickable sensationalist headline. Some people thought that doctors would be in cahoots with researchers and sabatoge pregnancies for more stem cells. Then they split the profit from the research. Crazy stuff like that. You’d think that people would get riled up over it since it can closely relate to the pro choice pro life argument. Maybe I’m overestimating people but I like to think more people understand the benefits of stem cell research now and sensationalist headlines about it are largely in the past.
She lives in my City and I work in the health industry. I’ve met her on a few occasions and I can tell you she is so deserving of this. She’s pretty amazing.
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