stem-cell research Options

[smile4me]

do you support stem-cell researching? why or why not?
should federal funding be given to these researchers?
do you support embryonic or adult stem cells (or both)?

[sadolakced acid]

would ppl. who tell other ppl. to please read the entire f***ing thread stop being a f***ing hypocrites and read the entire f***ing thread themselves please?!?!?! IF YOU HAD, you would kno from my 1st post here that Ira Black found a way to convert all adult stem cells into all 3 germ layers, giving them the exact same potential as embryonic stem cells. The only advantage ESCs ever appeared to have over ASCs was the ability to become all cell types. With that gone, the excuse for ESC research vanishes.
And you would also have known that ESCs have the potential to create cardiac muscle or brain tissue, or pancreatic islet cells..... They haven't figure out how to do any of these said things.... and that with the ability to convert to all 3 germ layers ASCs now have tht exact same potential!!!!!! Oh and you would also know that the only reason these embryo's would not become human is b/c they are never given a chance, b/c they are left without the nurturing they need......

i did read that.

and you know, forming the three germ layers isn't enough. They can't be forced from the three germ layers into those.

they have the potential to become everything, mayhaps. but for now, and for the next hundred years or so, we can't get the fundamental germ layers to become what we want. they're already too specialized.