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