Comments on: Testicles Could Yield Stem Cells Without the Ethical Complications http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/09/testicles-could-yield-stem-cells-without-the-ethical-complications/ 80beats is DISCOVER\'s news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering the day\'s most compelling topics. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:42:39 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: QUASAR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/09/testicles-could-yield-stem-cells-without-the-ethical-complications/comment-page-1/#comment-40507 QUASAR Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:09:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/09/testicles-could-yield-stem-cells-without-the-ethical-complications/#comment-40507 Can they also make egg cells from stem cells? Can they also make egg cells from stem cells?

]]> By: AKSHAY KUMAR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/09/testicles-could-yield-stem-cells-without-the-ethical-complications/comment-page-1/#comment-26250 AKSHAY KUMAR Wed, 06 May 2009 16:25:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/09/testicles-could-yield-stem-cells-without-the-ethical-complications/#comment-26250 i have my left testicle slipping downwards since 2 years when I was learning karate in my school how could i deal with this problem since I have my marriage in next month . So kindly give my nice suggestion about the medicines to be used and make my testicles strong enough for my lifetime and make them stable in their correct positon. i have my left testicle slipping downwards since 2 years when I was learning karate in my school how could i deal with this problem since I have my marriage in next month . So kindly give my nice suggestion about the medicines to be used and make my testicles strong enough for my lifetime and make them stable in their correct positon.

]]> By: Sherece Manchester http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/09/testicles-could-yield-stem-cells-without-the-ethical-complications/comment-page-1/#comment-9571 Sherece Manchester Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:31:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/09/testicles-could-yield-stem-cells-without-the-ethical-complications/#comment-9571 This is wonderful news. It makes sense that pliable cells could be harvested without having to use those from embryos. I am glad that they did not stop there...this technology is much needed. I also agree that there are better ways of treating illness than pharmaceuticals...we just have to find these ways. If this technology hurts no one and does not infringe on anyone's rights, who could argue about this? Of course this news brings the ugly comments about the "religious fanatics". I consider myself as well as my family fortunate as we have always been relatively healthy. I cannot imagine the pain of watching a loved one suffer. I do believe in God but most people who know me wouldn't really consider me religious. I would have to argue that taking life from someone else no matter how "insignificant" they may seem to save someone else is wrong. You do not have to be a "Christian" zealot to see this. You do not have to be religious at all. Do atheists believe that murder is acceptable? I am not saying it is wrong because you'll be judged later. I just always knew we were not supposed to kill one another. It almost feels like it was hard-wired in. Even if I had only one week to live, I would not think it was okay for someone to take out my heart and give it to someone else who needed it, thus ending my life sooner than it had to end. What I have come to understand from the study of biology makes it obvious to me that life begins at conception. This doesn't seem convenient for us in our time of fast food... and me, me, me. We disregard facts and rationalize our actions to make ourselves feel better. I don't know anyone who hasn't done this. None of this is new. History (and present) gives innumerable examples of people who would lie, steal, and kill to protect their own. As human beings we are very capable of justifying the things we do, "need", and have a "right to", no matter what the means. There are those who should be thanking the Christians and other "religious fanatics" and hey, I guess you can count me in as one of the "crazies". We are the perfect scapegoat...paint us up as dirty, insensitive fools with no understanding or respect for human life. Then go look in the mirror...we see you in the same light. This is wonderful news. It makes sense that pliable cells could be harvested without having to use those from embryos. I am glad that they did not stop there…this technology is much needed. I also agree that there are better ways of treating illness than pharmaceuticals…we just have to find these ways. If this technology hurts no one and does not infringe on anyone’s rights, who could argue about this?
Of course this news brings the ugly comments about the “religious fanatics”. I consider myself as well as my family fortunate as we have always been relatively healthy. I cannot imagine the pain of watching a loved one suffer. I do believe in God but most people who know me wouldn’t really consider me religious. I would have to argue that taking life from someone else no matter how “insignificant” they may seem to save someone else is wrong. You do not have to be a “Christian” zealot to see this. You do not have to be religious at all. Do atheists believe that murder is acceptable? I am not saying it is wrong because you’ll be judged later. I just always knew we were not supposed to kill one another. It almost feels like it was hard-wired in. Even if I had only one week to live, I would not think it was okay for someone to take out my heart and give it to someone else who needed it, thus ending my life sooner than it had to end. What I have come to understand from the study of biology makes it obvious to me that life begins at conception. This doesn’t seem convenient for us in our time of fast food… and me, me, me.
We disregard facts and rationalize our actions to make ourselves feel better. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t done this. None of this is new. History (and present) gives innumerable examples of people who would lie, steal, and kill to protect their own. As human beings we are very capable of justifying the things we do, “need”, and have a “right to”, no matter what the means. There are those who should be thanking the Christians and other “religious fanatics” and hey, I guess you can count me in as one of the “crazies”. We are the perfect scapegoat…paint us up as dirty, insensitive fools with no understanding or respect for human life. Then go look in the mirror…we see you in the same light.

]]> By: Bystander http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/09/testicles-could-yield-stem-cells-without-the-ethical-complications/comment-page-1/#comment-9511 Bystander Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:04:26 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/09/testicles-could-yield-stem-cells-without-the-ethical-complications/#comment-9511 I console myself by constantly reminding myself just how relatively young our species is when I hear/read all the ignorance spewed by religious fanatics concerning the inhibiting of development of life saving technologies. Give us what we want now and maybe, just maybe, my grandkids could look back and boggle at the poisons we ingest for ailments today and the surgeries we endure when I know that it's possible to completely bypass 'big pharmaceutical' and treat each individual with cultures of tissues created from our own bodies. It is a shame to exist in this age of achievement only to witness it's sorely misled nay-sayers win out with their illogical and unfounded propaganda. Myself, I can't grasp how so many people believe what they believe just because they were told so despite the extensive scientific facts screaming in their faces. /shrug I console myself by constantly reminding myself just how relatively young our species is when I hear/read all the ignorance spewed by religious fanatics concerning the inhibiting of development of life saving technologies. Give us what we want now and maybe, just maybe, my grandkids could look back and boggle at the poisons we ingest for ailments today and the surgeries we endure when I know that it’s possible to completely bypass ‘big pharmaceutical’ and treat each individual with cultures of tissues created from our own bodies.

It is a shame to exist in this age of achievement only to witness it’s sorely misled nay-sayers win out with their illogical and unfounded propaganda. Myself, I can’t grasp how so many people believe what they believe just because they were told so despite the extensive scientific facts screaming in their faces.

/shrug

]]> By: Richard Fellows http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/09/testicles-could-yield-stem-cells-without-the-ethical-complications/comment-page-1/#comment-9361 Richard Fellows Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:03:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/10/09/testicles-could-yield-stem-cells-without-the-ethical-complications/#comment-9361 I remember watching my father die of starvation from Parkinson's disease while "Christian" zealots did all they could to outlaw the research that might lead to a cure. Maybe with this advance we can sideline the "Christian" zealots and their Taliban brothers who are so content to have our families die for their demented religions. I remember watching my father die of starvation from Parkinson’s disease while “Christian” zealots did all they could to outlaw the research that might lead to a cure.
Maybe with this advance we can sideline the “Christian” zealots and their Taliban brothers who are so content to have our families die for their demented religions.

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