OK, MSM Explain to Me Why Should the Catholic Church Soften Its Stand On Embryonic Stem Cell Research?

Especially when there is news like this:

Single Adult Stem Cell Can Self Renew, Repair Tissue Damage in Live Mammal

We have another huge breakthrough with huge implications for helping people. & all within what the Catholic Church says are morally & ethically licit proceedures. Why is the Main Stream Media being so quiet about this?

1st of all, this would support the Catholic Church's stand against embryonic stem cell research, not undermine it. & if the Church is right about this, then people will begin to think maybe the Church is right in its other teachings on sexuality.

2nd, embryonic stem cell research isn't really about saving lives, it a part of the "culture of death" playing God by going into areas where man shouldn't go. Isn't that what got Satan kicked out of Heaven? Isn't that what got Adam & Eve (not Steve, Eve!) kicked out of the Garden of Eden?

3rd, if there is no need for embryonic stem cells to be used, then there is no reason to fund it. This puts this self-annointed dieties out of work.

& where it does get you, I guarentee that you will hear a chorus of "Yes, but" by those who want to keep on doing embryonic stem cell research. Sadly, with Obama in office & the "culture of death" running Congress, for at least the next 2 years, the need for saying this will be less. But, someday, enough people will see the facts belie the claims about embryonic stem cells, & hopefully they will say "BASTA!!!" (enough). Hopefully, it won't be too late.

Here is the whole LifeSiteNews story:

December 15, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The first demonstration that a single adult stem cell can self-renew in a mammal was reported at the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) 48th Annual Meeting, Dec. 13-17, 2008 in San Francisco. The transplanted adult stem cell and its differentiated descendants restored lost function to mice with hind limb muscle tissue damage.

The ability to isolate and then transplant skeletal adult muscle stems cells could have a wide impact in treating not only a variety of muscle wasting diseases such as muscular dystrophy but also severe muscle injuries or loss of function from aging and disuse.

The adult stem cells used in the study, conducted at Stanford University, were isolated from a mixed population of satellite cells in the skeletal muscle of mice.

The skeletal adult muscle stem cells (MusSC), which live just under the membrane that surrounds muscle fibers, normally respond to tissue damage by giving rise to progenitor cells that become myoblasts, fusing into myofibers to repair the tissue damage.

The scientists transplanted the MusSC into special immune-suppressed "nude" mice whose muscle satellite cells had been wiped out in a hind limb by irradiation.

The mice would only be able to repair injury if the transplanted MuSC "took." The scientists, Alessandra Sacco and Helen Blau, had genetically engineered the transplanted MusSC to glow under ultraviolet light, making it easy to trace.

"To be able to detect the presence of the cells by bioluminescence was really a breakthrough," says Blau. "It taught us so much more. We could see how the cells were responding, and really monitor their dynamics."

Sacco and Blau tracked each transplanted stem cell as it rapidly proliferated and engrafted its progeny into the irradiated muscle tissue. The scientists then injured the regenerated tissue, setting off massive waves of muscle cell growth and repair, and subsequently showed that the MuSC and descendents rescued the second animal's lost muscle healing function.

After isolating the luciferase-glowing muscle stem cells from the transplanted animal, the scientists duplicated, or cloned, the cells in the lab. Like the original MuSC, the cloned copies were intact and capable of self-renewal.

"We are thrilled with the results," says Sacco. "It's been known that these satellite cells are crucial for the regeneration of muscle tissue, but this is the first demonstration of self-renewal of a single cell."

In other experiments, the researchers transplanted between 10 and 500 luciferase-tagged MuSC into the leg muscles of mice.

These cells also proliferated and engrafted, forming new myofibers and fusing with injured fibers.

Unlike tumor cells, the transplanted stem cells achieved homeostasis, growing to a stable, constant level and ceasing replication. The formation of tumors has plagued attempts to use embryonic stem cells for similar cures, but appears to largely be avoided when using adult stem cells.

After demonstrating that the transplanted stem cells proliferated and fully restored the animal's lost function, Sacco and Blau recovered new stem cells from the transplant with full stem cell potency, meeting the final "gold standard" test for adult multipotent stem cells.