Yet again, a story of stem cell advancement that barely gets noticed because it doesn’t involve destruction of an embryo.
Shaun Boyd of CBS4 Denver reports on a blind Colorado girl who went to China for experimental stem cell treatments which have radically improved her vision — she’s now taking driving lessons.
Macie Morse was born with optic nerve hypoplasia, meaning her optic nerve didn’t develop all the way. The only way to repair it was to grow more of the nerve using umbilical cord stem cells.
She and her mother traveled all the way to China for an experimental treatment.
For 6 weeks Morse received injections of cord stem cells and acupuncture to stimulate the cells. Gradually, they took hold and began growing the optic nerve Morse was missing.
“I saw snow fall for the first time,” she told CBS4’s Boyd.
Notice the lack of destruction of an embryo? Insane, huh?
We’re not “7 years behind” anyone because of federal governmental embryonic stem cell research funding bans. We’re “7 years behind” because a bunch of companies are just trying to bilk the government out of money while not doing any other kinds of research and while we’re sitting on our asses praising ourselves now for this new era of science and reason, the materials that were always available to doctors and scientists are actually being used in other countries who aren’t preoccupied with politics and the like.
If destroying embryos is what it means to be in the age of reason under the great Obamessiah, count me out.
