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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 02:54:14 EDT
Subject: A rewording for clarity..

Cryonet:

Reading my recent post regarding the James Swazey fund, I found a sentence 
that needed additional work:

"It is noted that this whole idea tends to fairly well foul up good potential 
misunderstandings [by others of] Robert Ettinger's thoughts on altruism."

and

From this weeks Time Magazine:

Two Weeks Later, Cracks in a Carefully Crafter Policy

President bush's decision to fund work on some 60-odd existing colonies of 
human stem cells, and only those colonies, hit a serious snag last week with 
the revelation that virtually all stem cells are cultivated using embryonic 
mouse tissue.  The mouse cells provide the human ones with nutrients and 
growth factors crucial to their survival and proliferation.  The problem: 
under FDA rules, mouse-fed stem cells given to treat human patients would be 
considered a "xenotransplant," or tissue from another species.  Although 
hundreds of patients have received liver and fetal cells from pigs without 
any sign of foreign infection, the agency would halt a stem-cell procedure if 
it felt the human patient was at risk of getting an animal virus.  The news 
sparked renewed calls for the President to loosen his policy and allow 
further harvesting from embryos, this time without using animal tissue in the 
Petri dish.  Senator John Kerry warns that if federal dollars aren't make 
available for new cell lines, Congress may yet wrest the policy from the 
White House. Just when you thought the fight was over.--Reported by Frederic 
Golden/New York

Regards, 

David C. Johnson

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