Do adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells?
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Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
"Anybody who knows anything knows that stem cells are useful tools in the treatment of certain specific diseases."
9/15/2008 12:58:46 PM
Bob Schaffer (R-CO)
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
"Superior prospects for cures without the ethical and moral concerns surrounding the destruction of human life"
9/11/2008 4:21:55 PM
Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE)
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
With limited federal dollars, we should invest in proven research that can yield real hope
9/11/2008 12:45:05 PM
Tom Coburn (R-OK)
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
Thankfully, advances in science have shown that adult stem cells and stem cells from human umbilical cord-blood can be used for research in place of fetal stem cells.
9/11/2008 12:44:43 PM
Sam Johnson (R-TX)
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
With the recent successful use of adult stem cells and cord blood cells in the treatment of diseases, the debate over stem cell research has turned a new corner
9/11/2008 12:42:50 PM
Trent Franks (R-AZ)
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
This new evidence proving the effectiveness of adult skin cells in stem cell research unequivocally proves that President George W. Bush was right in his decision to veto stem cell legislation that would have seen human embryos used as commodities in
9/11/2008 12:42:09 PM
The Republican Party
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
Adult stem cells, umbilical cord blood, and cells reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells offer the greatest hope
9/11/2008 12:41:35 PM
John Sullivan (R-OK)
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
Adult stem cells, as opposed to embryonic, have also proven promising for the generation of certain tissues in the human body that is ethical and morally responsible
9/10/2008 2:22:15 PM
Randy Neugebauer (R-TX)
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
Furthermore, the major advances of stem cell research have come from adult stem cells, not embryonic ones
9/8/2008 12:21:51 PM
Sam Brownback
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
Conversely, completely ethical and non-controversial adult and other non-embryonic stem cells have already been shown to have clinical applications for over 70 different types of diseases
9/8/2008 12:01:50 AM
Doug Lamborn (R-CO)
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
he supports adult stem cell research because it is not destructive of human life and has shown much more success and promise for medical progress
9/5/2008 2:19:53 PM
John N. Kennedy (R-LA)
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
Recent breakthroughs in science, however, now offer a pathway to adult stem cell research that can save lives, while respecting and promoting a culture of life.
7/28/2008 3:18:20 PM
David Vitter
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
In addition, adult stem cell research has shown far more medical potential than embryonic stem cells have.
7/28/2008 2:33:56 AM
Charles Boustany, Jr.
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
Adult stem cells have already been used to treat a growing number of human diseases
7/24/2008 10:01:19 AM
Roy Blunt (R-MO)
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
There are alternatives to embryonic stem cell research that also hold promise for cures, which everyone finds ethically acceptable (stem cells derived from cord blood and adult somatic cells)
7/11/2008 4:56:57 PM
Todd Akin (R-MO)
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
Thankfully, through adult and cord blood stem cell research, there clearly is an ethically uncontroversial and scientifically promising alternative.”
7/10/2008 10:15:06 AM
Dan Lungren (R-CA)
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
Lungren supports "innovative technologies by which we may obtain pluripotent stem cells."
7/2/2008 12:07:55 PM
The New York Sun
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
"produced the most promising successes in tentative animal and human trials and may ultimately prove more therapeutically useful anyway"
6/19/2008 10:30:11 AM
Saxby Chambliss
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
"Very promising alternatives to embryonic stem cell research"
6/18/2008 10:45:08 PM
Michael C. Burgess (R-TX)
Adult stem cells have the same medical potential as embryonic stem cells.
"Here we have a stem cell created from a skin cell without destroying an embryo," Burgess said. "The science has moved tremendously."
6/9/2008 10:13:45 PM