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judy - 24 Nov 2007 22:16 GMT
Does anyone have any info to indicate that chronic sinusitus sufferers
with tissue damage due to repeated surgeries and/or infections may be
able to benefit from stem cell treatments in the future?  judyj
Fred - 25 Nov 2007 17:10 GMT
> Does anyone have any info to indicate that chronic sinusitus sufferers
> with tissue damage due to repeated surgeries and/or infections may be
> able to benefit from stem cell treatments in the future? �judyj

The cells of the sinus cavities are very hard to duplicate.  There is
no cellular tissue in the human body that resembles this tissue.
There is an article on the nasal cavity on wikapedia that in most
informative.  The problem would then be if stem cells can
differentiatiate into Turbinaires.  Research may be years away and can
really only be done when we have a sympathetic president and congress
that is willing to help with this research.
rtertert - 25 Nov 2007 20:08 GMT
>> Does anyone have any info to indicate that chronic sinusitus sufferers
>> with tissue damage due to repeated surgeries and/or infections may be
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> really only be done when we have a sympathetic president and congress
> that is willing to help with this research.

It may not take a "sympathetic president" for advances in science...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/11/20/stem.cells.skin/
Fred - 25 Nov 2007 21:39 GMT
> >> Does anyone have any info to indicate that chronic sinusitus sufferers
> >> with tissue damage due to repeated surgeries and/or infections may be
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>
> http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/11/20/stem.cells.skin/

You are dealing with interlopers from both the catholic and certain
protestant churches.  The area where the stem cell research is really
needed is with Parkinsons.  The people with Parkinsons despiratly want
stem cell research - the religious authorities are blocking it.  They
control a lot of votes including the votes that got GWB in power.
Steven L. - 26 Nov 2007 13:27 GMT
>>>> Does anyone have any info to indicate that chronic sinusitus sufferers
>>>> with tissue damage due to repeated surgeries and/or infections may be
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> stem cell research - the religious authorities are blocking it.  They
> control a lot of votes including the votes that got GWB in power.

National politics is really OT for this NG.  But I'm not going to let
your statement go without trying to set the record straight.

There *are* valid ethical issues surrounding the use of embryos for
scientific research.  There has already been at least one case in New
Jersey a few years ago, where a private company wanted to pay poor women
to harvest their embryos for scientific research--fortunately the local
governments intervened.  That's why embryonic stem cell research is so
controversial.  Medical schools like the Harvard Medical School have set
up actual divisions to explore issues of medical ethics like this one.

These are *not* simple questions, and anyone who (like yourself) makes
glib, easy-sounding proposals is either failing or refusing to deal with
the ethics involved.  We've seen enough horrors in the last 100 years
from people who deliberately ignored ethical constraints in the pursuit
of scientific knowledge, fame, or profit, to know what can go wrong with
that.

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