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  • From: tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] Bush stem cell lines all contaminated
  • Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:57:58 -0500

This happens when religious idiots interfere with scientific research---fortunately the States are ignoring this particular bit of idiocy.





Bush stem cell lines all contaminatedPremium

* 29 January 2005
* Andy Coghlan
* Magazine issue 2484

Researchers around the world are facing the nightmare possibility that their experiments have been ruined by contamination from animal cells

STEM cell researchers around the world are facing the nightmare possibility that their experiments have been messed up by contamination from animal cells. The contaminant is an animal sugar already known to find its way into cultures of ordinary human cells. It has now been found in a Bush-approved stem cell line, and leads to rejection of the stem cells by the human immune system.

This means the cells cannot be used in therapies and also calls into question all scientific work carried out using the cells. "If you were seeing a phenomenon in a dish, you need to ask yourself if it's inherent to human biology, or whether it's the effect of a mouse or animal factor that alters the system," says Evan Snyder, director of the stem cell and regeneration programme at The Burnham Institute in La Jolla, California.




  • [Homestead] Bush stem cell lines all contaminated, tvoivozhd, 01/30/2005

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