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Friday, January 23, 2009

Another step into Hell.

Found via The Drudge Report.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the way for the first trial to see if human embryonic stem cells can treat people safely, a company involved in the controversial research on Friday. (Somewhere Moloch is laughing his ass off.)

Geron Corp, a California biotechnology company, said it plans a clinical trial to try to use the stem cells to regrow nerve tissue in patients with crushed, but not severed, spinal cords.

The issue of human embryonic stem cell research has been a political touchstone, with anti-abortion forces backed by former president George W. Bush arguing the technique involves the destruction of human embryos. Advocates say it could transform medicine. (Yeah, "Do no harm goes out the window". Theres your stinking transformation!)

"For us, it marks the dawn of a new era in medical therapeutics. This approach is one that reaches beyond pills and scalpels to achieve a new level of healing," Geron Chief Executive Dr. Thomas Okarma said in a telephone briefing. (New level=They've succeeded in crashing through the basement.)

Shares of Geron rose more than 53 percent to $8 in mid-morning trading on Nasdaq after touching $8.38.

Geron will recruit eight to 10 recently injured patients and inject them with small numbers of human embryonic stem cells manipulated to become the oligodendrocyte cells that insulate nerves, and that produce compounds to stimulate the growth of nerve cells.

Okarma said there was no political significance to the announcement coming the same week as President Barack Obama took office. Obama has been widely expected to lift restrictions on federal funding and support of human embryonic stem cell research. (Yep, purely coincidental.)

An FDA spokeswoman said, "Before FDA allowed the study to proceed, Geron worked with FDA to address important scientific questions." (Ethics & morality don't need discussion.)

CHEAP AND EASY

Okarma said the treatment should eventually become cheap and easy to mass produce because the cells can be grown in vats. He believes the cells may be useful for other diseases such as multiple sclerosis, in which nerve cells are stripped of their insulating sheaths, and perhaps strokes.

Financial analysts celebrated. Stephen Brozak and Daniel Mallin of WBB Securities LLC said it could "as important to drug therapy as the discovery of ... penicillin." (Moldy bread is equivalent to human life? Good grief!)

Dr. Robert Lanza of the rival Massachusetts-based Advanced Cell Technology, which is also seeking to create therapies using human embryonic stem cells, called the decision a "huge advance for the entire field". This sends a message that we're ready at last to start helping people," he said.

Stem cells are the body's master cells, giving rise to all the tissues, organs and blood. Embryonic stem cells are considered the most powerful kinds of stem cells, as they have the potential to give rise to any type of tissue. (And so far there have been no, zero, zip, successful applications of embryonic cells.)

Researchers are also trying to find ways to use so-called adult stem cells, taken from bone marrow and elsewhere in the body, and have learned how to transform ordinary skin cells into stem-like cells. But scientists argue that no one knows which route will work so all avenues must be pursued. (My ass!)

The Phase I trial will be designed to show that patients do not develop tumors, or damage to their nervous systems. But Okarma believes it will also indicate whether the stem cells might repair the damaged spinal cords.

"These are living cells that will divide, make more of themselves and migrate throughout the lesion after injection," he said.

While the patients will get low doses of immune-suppressing drugs for the first two months,

Okarma is confident the cells will escape immune system recognition and patients will not have to endure the treatments that organ and tissue transplant recipients usually do. Treatment on the first patient should begin this summer.

Okarma said the company has a strong balance sheet, free of debt, and "ample to fund the company through this trial". (God have mercy on us.)

I know this is privately funded and was completely legal under Bush. He only banned government funding of this. Got it.

But coupled with the story that follows below this one it just looks like we're merrily going to Hell on an express elevator.

2 comments:

sig94 said...

Let's face it, we are certainly not dealing with Christians or even people who have some knowledge of Christ. Obama and his minions (Obamians?) are pagans - in the strictest sense of the word - nonbelievers. Obama was most likely raised as a muslim during his childhood and the "church" he attended as an adult is a blasphemous parody of a Christian church.

So don't be surprised at what comes out of this administration. We'll see worse yet.

MightyMom said...

sigh,

when's the next election day??

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