STEM CELLS 4 CURE ?
A nice 15- minute-movie about stem-cells: Euro stemcell - English - Euro stemcell - French
Experts increasingly believe that stem cells have considerable potential to treat many of our most devastating disorders, including diabetes, heart disease, and variety of neurological disorders such as spinal cord injury (SCI). We are not there yet. A lot more research is necessary. That research, though, does not proceed fast enough, because of all kinds of issues, whether they be political, financial or ethical. Is it ethical to tolerate so much suffering when we obviously could do so much more about it ?
About the ethical discussion around stem-cells : listen to what Steven Edwards, an American cure activist, says about the controversy concerning embryonic stemcells versus adult stemcells.
Do you want to know more about stem-cells in general or become a stem-cell 'activist' ?
I understand the ambivalence concerning stem cell research and fully recognize the need for boundaries but I think that scientists should be allowed to pursue all avenues of research for the cure and act. Are governments ready to set up a proper legal background enabling controlled research in a reasonable but effective way ? [see current legal status on worldwide level on this map : http://mbbnet.umn.edu/scmap.html ] or some update per country in www.stepnow.org as well as a call for action for more sci research, including but not limited to stemcell research in this blog under the Cure Activism Projects section
