[gurps] Cool Nerve cell growth info

[Chris J. Whitcomb]

Syndaryl wrote:
> --- "Chris J. Whitcomb" <rekres at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Susan Koziel wrote:
>>>   Somehow it's not a suprize about China getting the
>>> brightest minds in the field of stem cells... you
>>> could see that coming as soon as they passed the
>>> massively restrictive laws about stem cell research in
>>> Canada and the US. Eventually Canada/US/Europe will be
>>> the 3rd world in terms of new biomedical procedures if
>>> they keep passing laws telling people what they can
>>> and can't research. Alas.
>> 
>> It's generally called ethics.  I'd rather our government not support
>> turning women into baby factories just so they can make money selling
> 
>> the aborted fetuses.  Sure there may be some wonderful discoveries
>> just around the  corner, but at what price are we willing to make
>> those discoveries.
> 
> At the risk of starting a bit of a political side-thread here, you've
> created a horrific strawman to knock down here.
> 
> 1) Quibble - AFAIK a fetus is useless for stem-cell research, it's
> differentiated too far. If you're going to use a technical term in
> your emotional argument, use the right one. Otherwise, just call them
> "babies" and be done with it.

Granted, the topic is somewhat of a pet-peeve for me.

 
> 2) The major plan to source research was, as far as I know, to use the
> discarded embreos from currently used and fully legal fertility
> treatments. You know, the ones where they generate ~10 embreos in
> vitro, implant the healthiest looking 2 or 3 and hope that one takes,
> and then INCINERATE the left overs? Sometimes repeat 3 or 4 times
> before the couple actually gets pregnant.

Quibble - the term is 'embryo' not 'embreo'... ;)