Stem Cell Lines Reported Contaminated

WASHINGTON - The human embryonic stem cells available for research are contaminated with nonhuman molecules from the culture medium used to grow the cells, researchers report.

The nonhuman cell-surface sialic acid can compromise the potential uses of the stem cells in humans, say scientists at the University of California, San Diego. Their study was published Sunday in the online edition of Nature Medicine.
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Currently available stem cell lines have been grown in materials derived from animals. Such materials include connective tissue cells, called feeder layers, from mice and fetal calf serum.

That has raised concerns about potential contamination. Last summer, more than half the members of the Senate urged easing limits on new cell lines, noting that potential contamination could make available lines use for humans uncertain.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=753&e=1&u=/ap/20050124/ap_on_he_me/stem_cells

The rethuglicans did it!!! :tinfoilhat:

so not a problem unless you must follow the Bush rules in order to get funding.

With Mass and CA ending the need to follow Bush rules to get funding , the "red State" folks research either moves to Mass - god-forbid - or we find a problem that changes the Bush rules.

And that is why we have a "new" story in the news

:kick:

Thanks to Bush, the US cedes yet another industry to China. Bush's 'moral' pseudo-science has tied the hands of our scientists, and just set our researchers back years.

Thats what happens when Reverend Moon and Jerry Falwell are running the country.

But Bush won't notice and if he accidentally did notice, its not like he'd understand the reality of it.