Science will always win

It seems that the lamentations of the left are untrue; President Bush has failed to stop a stem cell clinical trial from going forward. What, I thought that Rove-Bush-Cheney were supposed to drag us back into a fundamentalist Christian dark agewhere the only therapies were prayers.

Ain't so.

But, all this proves is that science in the west will always move forward; no force of government, religion, attorneys can stop it.

Update:

As you may recall, OHSU announced in March that researchers from Doernbecher Children’s Hospital will conduct a clinical safety trial that involves implanting purified human fetal neural stem cells into children who have a rare and fatal disorder. This clinical trial will begin before the end of the year.

We expect this landmark trial may receive significant national attention and wanted you to be aware of it in advance.
The trial will involve up to six children who have neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL), also known as Batten disease. This disease is a rare and devastating genetic condition that affects infants and children and is always fatal.

This is a safety trial that was carefully reviewed and approved by OHSU’s Institutional Review Board. While meticulous, compelling research has been conducted in animal models, to our knowledge this will be the first time that surgeons anywhere have implanted human neural stem cells into the brain.

The goal of this Phase 1 trial is to determine whether the cells can be implanted with no harm to the child. We hope it will be an important first step toward a therapeutic advance for these children who have no other viable options.

The trial uses a human central nervous stem cell product developed by StemCells Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif. For more information about the study, please visit http://www.ohsu.edu/stemcellstrial.