Word: curing
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...woman and grow it to the stage of a fetus. We solemnly promise to grow human clones only to the blastocyst stage, a tiny 8-day-old cell mass no larger than the period at the end of this sentence, so that we can extract stem cells and cure diseases that way. Nothing more. No fetuses. No implantation. No brave new world of fetal farming...
This is all very nice. But curing with stem cells is extremely complicated. First, you have to tease out the stem cells from the blastocyst. Then you have to keep the stem cells alive, growing one generation after another while retaining their pluripotentiality (their ability to develop into all different kinds of cells). Then you have to take those stem cells and chemically tweak them in complex ways to make them grow into specialized tissue cells--say, neurons for a spinal-cord injury. Then you inject the neurons into the patient and get your cure...
...somehow cure all the children suffering from autism or Asperger syndrome, we might lose the amazing diversity of views that have so enriched humanity. For example, animal-science professor Temple Grandin, who wrote about her own autism, thought in a different, visual way and solved a livestock design problem. Perhaps we should not look to cure these children but help them with their problems and accept that their view of things may be just as right as ours. ANISH JAIN Bridgewater...
...this: Someone breaks into your house late at night and steals your precious child's mind and personality and leaves the bewildered body behind. We have a national emergency. Families affected by autism need so much, but first they need hope--the hope that medical research can bring. The Cure Autism Now Foundation www.cureautismnow.org has built awareness, pushed the government to take action and started the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange, the nation's only collaborative gene bank for autism. We know that with determination, money and energy you can hurry science. JONATHAN SHESTACK, CO-FOUNDER CURE AUTISM NOW FOUNDATION...
...husband smelled a scam, but Otsuka invested her family's savings of $125,000 after learning of G.O. Group's miraculous new product, Uniba-G Tea. Made of banaba leaf from the Philippines, Ogami touted the tea as a revolutionary cure for obesity and diabetes. He spared no expense to exploit its marketing potential, hiring Jean-Claude Van Damme to appear in the Uniba-G TV commercial, in which the action star chugs the tea and kickboxes punks. Though the ad aired only a handful of times, the endorsement of Ogami's "close personal friend" received prominent play...