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Re: Stem Cells
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Originally Posted by brad8134
... politics serves as a checks and balances to ensure the science community stays within its boundaries. And yes even science has its boundaries when funded by the people.
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I'd paraphrase that to say: "...politics serves as a checks and balances to ensure any corporate application of discoveries by the science community stays within its boundaries."
Science's boundaries are the material world, and should not be determined by some doctrine or ideology (or conflict of ideologies).
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The thing about embryonic stem cells is that they are undifferentiated. We need to study that undifferentiated state to know what the discoveries with adult stem cells mean. Half of the work is de-differentiating the adult stem cells (undoing the partial differentiation of adult stem cells) to figure out how they work; and for that, they need to know how real undifferentiated cells (embryonic stem cells) work. Then on to differentiation, and all the discoveries of how things ("diseases") interfere with normal development and life processes.
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In reality, our focus on adult stem cell research will probably further the whole body of stem cell research much faster than it would have otherwise advanced.
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