• clonedhuman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    This was done in Japan.

    Imagine how far the United States could have come in stem cell research if the Republicans (particularly Reagan and later George W. Bush) hadn’t constantly cut funding and restricted use of embryonic stem cells.

    • rtxn@lemmy.world
      6·
      4 days ago

      Modern stem cell research isn’t even done using embryonic stem cells. It uses stem cells harvested from bone marrow or adipose tissue, but people are idiots and freak out when they read “stem cell”.

      • clonedhuman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        The cells in this study were from induced pluripotent stem cells, where normal somatic cells are basically programmed to become pluripotent cells (which, otherwise, can only really be obtained from fetal tissue).

        Induced pluripotent stem cells were also made by Japanese scientists, but I think around the year 2000. That’s almost two decades after Republicans in the U.S. cut most federal funding for stem cell research.

        Those ‘Conservatives’ have damaged our society in so many ways.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 days ago

        The number of times I’ve heard people think stem cells are aborted kids here in the deep South is way to high