Some thoughts…
Well, I suppose now that I have a blog, I had better blog! I hope that word is, in fact, both a noun and a verb. One thing that occurs to me to post is the interesting fact that the stem cells that I will be receiving are “ethically friendly” as I like to put it. Although China certainly didn’t have the same ethical problems with doing research on embryonic stem cells as we had in North America, what their research found out was that the embryonic stem cells don’t really work. They are, you might say, too adaptable. Apparently, as I understand it, when they tested them on animals, the animals grew really strange, awful, monstrous tumours with hairs and teeth and eyes and the like! They had no control over what kind of cell the embryonic stem cell would turn into. However, umbilical or plaacental stem cells (also called adult stem cells I believe) work very well, and are what I will be receiving, along with stem cells harvested from my own bone marrow. They are also, of course, ethically friendly. I find this fascinating as it makes the whole furor over stem cells rather moot!
3 comments February 22nd, 2009
I hope you enjoy it. I will try to keep up with it while I am in China (and before, I guess) but I don’t know how much the treatments are going to take out of me.