Keep reading the propaganda. Here is what the University of Wisconsin has to say about adult vs. embryonic stem cells:
How might embryonic stem cells be used to treat disease?
The ability to grow human tissue of all kinds opens the door to treating a range of cell-based diseases and to growing medically important tissues that can be used for transplantation purposes. For example, diseases like juvenile onset diabetes mellitus and Parkinson's disease occur because of defects in one of just a few cells types. Replacing faulty cells with healthy ones offers hope of lifelong treatment. Similarly, failing hearts and other organs, in theory, could be shored up by injecting healthy cells to replace damaged or diseased cells.
Why not derive stem cells from adults?
There are several approaches now in human clinical trials that utilize mature stem cells (such as blood-forming cells, neuron-forming cells and cartilage-forming cells). However, because adult cells are already specialized, their potential to regenerate damaged tissue is very limited: skin cells will only become skin and cartilage cells will only become cartilage. Adults do not have stem cells in many vital organs, so when those tissues are damaged, scar tissue develops. Only embryonic stem cells, which have the capacity to become any kind of human tissue, have the potential to repair vital organs.
Again, the attempt for embryonic stem cell research funding is for embryos that are being tossed in the garbage. All of you lining up against this need to be petitioning your congressmen to outlaw the in vitrio fertilization clinics, or demanding your local prosecutor to prosecute them for murder. Don't forget, life begins at conception and ends at birth. We are back to the imprisonment of Galileo here. If this administration and its supporters don't like the science, they replace it with wishful thinking.
