Monday, January 24, 2005

MedPol: presidential stem-cell lines contaminated

In a final blow to the president's ridiculous, asinine, and right down piss-me-off policy on stem cell research, some folks at UCSD have shown that all of those stem cell lines that the president said were OK for research are now expressing a murine sialic acid residue on their cell membranes, meaning that if they were injected into human tissue, the host immune system would play seek and destroy against the non-human markers. This apparently was a known worry when the president decided these were the A-OK stem cell lines, but as the president has obviously never worked in cell culture, I guess he figured it was some goofy science thing that he didn't need to worry about.

So the president's limits on stem cell research are officially DOA limits. Thanks, George!

If you get as violently angry over this as I do, feel free to rant in the comments section. Capital letters encouraged.

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