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Stem cell therapy for Parkinson's

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3853791.stm

The Israeli team treated human stem cells in the laboratory.

They then transplanted them into the brains of rats which had a Parkinson's-like condition.

The rats' behaviour changed after their treatment.

Before it took place, they would turn continually, and would be unable to make side steps while they were being dragged across a surface.

But after the transplants, these symptoms were significantly reduced.

Stem cells as heart Pacemakers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3692942.stm

 The Israeli team from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, along with US colleagues, took the stem cells from donated human embryos. .....

Dr Lior Gepstein and his team took embryonic stem cells and used chemicals to coax them to grow into standard heart muscle cells.

Some of these cells were seen to beat spontaneously in the same way as healthy heart muscle.

The scientists isolated these cells and injected them into the hearts of pigs with abnormally slow heart rates.

In 11 out of 13 pigs, the injected cells produced their own heart rhythm.

In other words, embryonic stem cells will work across species.

But instead of harvesting pig embryos to get stem cells, we are destroying human embryos...

We are so dehumanized that it is easier to destroy unwanted potential (or actual) human beings to experiment on, because we have a couple thousand carelessly manufactured lying around unwanted stored on ice.

Whether or not one is against abortion or thinks that life begins at birth, the overproduction of such embryos and the moral slide of science is shown when we don't even bother to protest the use of potential humans instead of animal embryos in experiments.

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