What has stem cell research accomplished so far?
Pleas! I do not want an emotional or political answer, I do not care if you are prolife or proscience.
What I am asking is:
Has there been a cure of a disease in humans?
Has there been a cure of a diesease in animals?
Has there been a treatment of an uncurable disease in humans or animals which gave partial revarsal of a disease state or halted a disease process?
What proof is there that it will or can cure diabetes, parkinsons, demetia, spinal cord injury, or any other illness.
Was ther any chance of Christopher Reeves or Ronald Reagan being alive today had federal fundings een made available for stem cell reaserch?
Do you think, Michael J. Fox or Patti Label will realize cures of their illnesses in thir lifetime with stem cells?
Please Objctive answers only from either side…I do not want emotional, political rants!
June 26th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Science wise yes in animals. I don’t remember the exact details but a couple spent about $50,000 on their dog for a stem cell procedure. The dog is now back to normal. This happened about 2 or 3 years ago. Scientists have injected stem cells into monkey’s that have a money form of Lou Gehrig’s disease and it showed good results.
June 28th, 2009 at 10:49 pm
Sorry to “toot my own website”, but although cures are rare, on my website, there are plenty of cases where adult stem cells have helped improve patients with Multiple Sclerosis, Spinal Cord Injury, Heart Disease, ALS and yes, Parkinson’s for Michael J Fox.
There are also published studies on my site as well, for Diabetes, ALS, MS, Spinal Cord Injury etc.
As for animals, a company in California called Vet-Stem is now processing stem cells for dogs and horses and then Vets (around the US) are implanting the stem cells mainly for arthritis (old age) syndromes- for approximately $3,000 (not 50,000)