This is outstanding news.

If they can decode the DNA of breast cancer cells, then there is no stopping of being able to soon decode the DNA of various other types of cancer.

I think being able to track DNA is one of the most tremendous medical advancements made in the last 50 years.

I think being able to track DNA is one of the most tremendous medical advancements made in the last 50 years.

Posted by CalifChris

Thank God we finally have an administration who value science and are willing to allow stem cell research.

This is outstanding news.

Yes and no. If it helps to find a cure, it is excellent news. If it doesn't and insurance companies deny a woman life insurance because she has that gene, it would be bad news.

Thank God we finally have an administration who value science and are willing to allow stem cell research.

#2 | Posted by Timex at 2009-10-12 02:42 AM

Letting stem cell research advance through use of also using embryonic stem cells (as opposed to Bush only allowing use of adult stem cells) was literally one of THE primary reasons I voted for Obama.

Bush held back allowing embryonic stem cell research for 8 years simply to cater to the religious fundementalist crowd even though no embryonic stem cells were ever gathered from aborted fetuses. In fact embryonic stem cells can be obtained from disgarded umbilical cords after a baby's birth but still his Administration refused to allow it.

Those eight years of medical advancement with embryonic stem cell research were entirely wasted. What a shame when you think of how far along we could have been now in cures for various diseases. But as you say, now we at least have an Administration no longer in the dark ages.

If it doesn't and insurance companies deny a woman life insurance because she has that gene, it would be bad news.

Which is exactly why the Democrats are now pushing to no longer allow the private insurance companies to refuse to take anyone with what the insurance companies consider a "pre-existing condition" -- which to them can mean anything from an allergy to at one time having had a broken wrist.

I don't belong to either political party as you know, but I have to hand it to the Dems on this one. For too long the private insurance companies have been given carte blanche to pick and choose. Too many people have been left by the wayside to die because insuring them would have hurt the insurance company's "profit margin."

I don't normally do not want to get into politics with you. *grin*

But on this one issue, you have to admit the Dems goal is a worthy one.

And on that note, I'm going to say "good night, y'all."

" In fact embryonic stem cells can be obtained from disgarded umbilical cords after a baby's birth but still his Administration refused to allow it."

CalifChris

To hear the fundies tell it it was all aborted embryos. They never wanted to talk about the millions of embryos discarded every year by fertility clinics either and why they shouldn't be used to save lives via research instead of ending up at a medical waste facility.

I don't normally do not want = I normally do not want

I don't belong to either political party as you know, but I have to hand it to the Dems on this one.

I've always thought the republicans went overboard on the stem cell research thing. It is one of the many issues that keep me from cvalling myself a republican (and one of the many issues ignored by the pigeonholers on the DR who want to force me into their republican hole) and one of the ones they need to lighten up on if they want political recovery. It would not cost them any political baggage at all. The fundies to whom it is a big deal will never vote democrat anyway.

If you voted for Bush 43 and are still proud enough of it to post that, why would you not consider yourself a neocon republican supporter?

Spin, spin, spinning like a spinning top....

If you voted for Bush 43 and are still proud enough of it to post that, why would you not consider yourself a neocon republican supporter?

Things changed after he took office in 2000. I guess you didn't notice, woke. Somehow I'm not surprised.

Spin, spin, spinning like a spinning top

Call it whatever you want, idiot.