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Embryonic Stem Cells Cure Some Blindness

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BRITISH scientists have developed the world’s first stem cell therapy to cure the most common cause of blindness. Surgeons predict it will become a routine, one-hour procedure that will be generally available in six or seven years’ time.

The treatment involves replacing a layer of degenerated cells with new ones created from embryonic stem cells. It was pioneered by scientists and surgeons from the Institute of Ophthalmology at University College London and Moorfields eye hospital.

This week Pfizer, the world’s largest pharmaceutical research company, will announce its financial backing to bring the therapy to patients.

The treatment will tackle age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of blindness. It affects more than 500,000 Britons and the number is forecast to increase significantly as people live longer. The disease involves the loss of eye cells.

Under the new treatment, embryonic stem cells are transformed into replicas of the missing cells. They are then placed on an artificial membrane which is inserted in the back of the retina.

Tom Bremridge, chief executive of the Macular Disease Society, said: “This is a huge step forward for patients. We are extremely pleased that the big guns have become involved, because, once this treatment is validated, it will be made available to a huge volume of patients.”

Embryonic stem cells have the ability to develop into all types of body tissue. Their use is controversial, however, because it involves the destruction of human embryos.

Blind to be cured with stem cells - Times Online

Wow, can you imagine such a breakthrough and the treatment being open to many.
Go Embryonic Stem Cells :2wave:
 
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Embryonic Stem Cells Cure Some Blindness and make one walk on the waters. What else that can be new that we can hear from scientists? How else can crooks extort money from the public? Embryonic Stem Cells Cure Some Blindness and make your hair grow back. They always have witnesses who say - ‘2 weeks ago I was 150 pounds, the slim fast program let me loose 30 pounds in two weeks’. What else is new since O. Henry’s descriptions of the public buying in ? O. Henry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Disregarding any and all looney toons, this is great. Best of luck to the scientists and surgeons perfecting this cure; the sooner the better. I know people with Macular degeneration, it's a nasty thing.


Duke, Friend of Doctors Everywhere
 
Extortionists often manipulate with best human emotions. Researchers remain skeptical and do not let emotions take over rational. It does not mean that they are bad people, it is just their duty.
 
You mean like researchers such as the ones here?


Duke
 
You mean like researchers such as the ones here?


Duke

Don't mind him Duke, justone is our residential conspiracy theorist, who thinks that scientists are conspiring to con the world out of money and spreading lies and immorality.
 
You mean like researchers such as the ones here?


Duke

Here there is one justone researcher; of course I mean researchers in general. How it is difficult for to understand a simple sentence for some I don't know.
 
Don't mind him Duke, justone is our residential conspiracy theorist, who thinks that scientists are conspiring to con the world out of money and spreading lies and immorality.

In my young years I would call for duel, in my later years I would just hit your in the chin, in my middle years I would file an all straight forward defamation laws suit against you, now when I am so old and rules have changed so much all I can do is to press the button to report the defamation.

I prove to people with healthy mentality how dishonest and repulsive is the way evolutionists debate, if their actions can ever be called a participation in a debate.
 
I prove to people with healthy mentality how dishonest and repulsive is the way evolutionists debate, if their actions can ever be called a participation in a debate.

LOL, just LOL.:2funny: Yeah we are all lying to the world about evolution, its all nonsense, and I don't know why we lie its just that we find it funny all you creationists pointing at the bible/koran furrowing your brows, sucking your teeth and scratching your heads just to make sense of it all.

Ladies and gentlemen, the scientist (religous and atheist) conspiracy as been unmasked, we have dedicated 150 years of our time lying to the public about evolution because....emmmmmm little help?

Justone tell you religous mentor (or whoever you have found this revelation from) that he is has done is work well, blowing apart the greatest conspiracy of all time.
 
I was kind of hoping for bionic eyes, to be honest.

Kinda like cyborg eyes? Sci fi my friend, sci fi, we are more likely just to grow new eyes from our cheeks cells or use stem cells. Unless you want indestructable eyes, that have x-ray vision (that would be cooool).
 

Now you in a total hysteric. It is not even worth to report all this trollish foaming. It is not like you would ever be able to defend evolution in a debate isn't it? It is not like any evolutionist has been able to defend evolution in a debate, isn't it?. They start from ad homs and breaking laws [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation]Defamation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame] and finish with ad homs.

Can you link to your false claims about me?

Should I link to the debate where you cut and run? Where you claimed to be a biologist and couldn't understand a simple question and couldn't do basic arithmetics? Why don't you go back and post an answer instead of wondering around, getting drunk and roll in hysterics?

Should I link to a number of debates where evolutionists have demonstrated to be helpless against basic facts and basic logic? Where they alswys started from little insults went through hysteric and finished with insults or cut and run?

Drunk or not you are demonstrating an example of human undecency here.
 

...speaking of trolls. When did this discussion ever became about evolution? The first person to WRONGLY assess the discussion of this thread, and the first one to speak about evolution, was you.

This thread is about a particular advancement in stem cell technology. NOT evolution.

Troll.
 

LOL. no not hysterics, its called being sarcastic. I'm just showing how absurd your claims are. It is a conspiracy theory.

I didn't cut and run. I went on holiday for a few weeks, came back and figured out (like many creationists) you are not worth the trouble justone. Creationists live in a reality of their own, like conspiracy theorists. I could tell a 9/11 truther that 9/11 was done by Islamic terrorists, I still wouldn't be able to change their minds, no matter what I did. Your the same. This is not an evolution thread and when I call out your hostility to scientists trying to cure people you go into default mode and scream EVOLTUION at the top of your lungs. I have seen yout type before justone, its really not worth my effort.

Your whole idea is that 99% of scientists in the world, atheist and religious scientists that accept evolution through natural selection as a scientific theory are in cahoots together and they have dedicated 150 years of their work to spread lies teaching evoltion is real when its not. Why would they do such a thing? I must know justone, what is it? I'm all ears.

Can't you step back and see how incredible riduculous that sounds? If not, you are lost.
 

Some religious people's default mode when you critcise them is they attack evolution, happens all the time.

He/she attacked scientists trying to cure blindness, his dislike runs deep. Yet Science has given him/her so much bounty, he might have not been born alive without medical science
 

Just slept on it. Isn't that the thread where you asked for one scientific publication that supported speciation and when I gave you many (over 100)scientific publications that support speciation you went into a hissy fit claiming they do not support speciation without even reading them?

And evolutionists are the dishonest ones?
 
When did this discussion ever became about evolution?
Since you run from a tread about evolution and get back to me on another tread instead, I have no choice. I hunt evolutionists in any form they take and in any place they show up. If an evolutionist cuts and runs from the tread about evolution and shows up on another tread in a form of a troll it is not my choice. I hunt him down as easy as I do on treads about evolution. Aim, shoot, hear squealing. Terminate. No laser or bionic eye is needed. Can do it with my eyes closed.
This thread is about a particular advancement in stem cell technology.

This tread is about an article, a public announcement, an appeal to a crowd.





...Troll.

You did not have to sign your post.
 
LOL. no not hysterics, its called being sarcastic.

It is called being defamation, I provided a link. It is an unlawful activity. [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation]Defamation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame] ''In law, defamation (also called calumny, libel (for written publications), slander (for spoken word), and vilification) is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product, group, government or nation a negative image. With the exception of the moderator team of DP jurisdictions allow legal actions, civil and/or criminal, to deter various kinds of defamation and retaliate against groundless criticism.''



I'm just showing how absurd your claims are.

What claims? Link, quote. It is the simplest question, I am repeating it the 2nd time: can you provide one, justone link or quote of my claims you refer to?

It is a conspiracy theory.

What is? It is the simplest question.

I didn't cut and run. I went on holiday for a few weeks,

This is not an evolution thread so why are getting back to me here but not on the evolution tread? I was waiting for 2 months.

came back and figured out (like many creationists) you are not worth the trouble justone.
 
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It is the tread where I asked you for one, just one link for a peer reviewed publication claiming an observation of speciation. Where I had to spend post after post trying to explain to such a simple question, and still you produced all kind of totally irrelevant things but not even one justone I was asking for.


http://www.debatepolitics.com/scien...falsehoods-creationism-20.html#post1057928654

There has been no evolutionist in my practice who would be able to understand the simplest question:

provide one justone link to a peer reviewed publication claiming an observation of speciation.

Just post a link, so that everyone can click on it and read the article

To make it easier for you this link: Observed Instances of Speciation has a whole list which includes a whole bunch of peer reviewed articles. I am not even asking for such a fairness of not submitting an article from an evolutionist magazine where scientists do not publish their works. I am asking for one, justone article a peer reviewed scientific publication, so I can read and review it. Can you understand?

this link has a list too:


[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciation]Speciation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
Speciation is the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise. There are four modes of natural speciation, based on the extent to which speciating populations are geographically isolated from one another: allopatric, peripatric, parapatric, and sympatric. Speciation may also be induced artificially, through animal husbandry or laboratory experiments. Observed examples of each kind of speciation are provided throughout.[1] .

From those lists or from anywhere else pick and post one justone link, so that everyone can click on it, read the article








and see that you are cheating again, that there is no claim of an observation of speciation in the article.
 
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