The kind you don't have to murder a baby to get, that is.
Number of therapies in use from dead-baby stem cells: 0
Number of therapies in use from "my own" adult stem cells: +1 more
This story is not notable because the airline refused to fly medical samples without advance notice. Nor is it because easyJet stepped up and did the right thing, compensating a full $14,000 to reimburse the cost of hiring a charter aircraft incurred when their security people got silly. This story is notable because they were hassled when transporting a new trachea from the lab to a patient.
That is, a trachea grown from the patient's own stem cells. This is just one more case of scientists in those cool white lab coats using someone's own cells to grow replacement parts. Why do we need to kill babies for their cells, again?
I wasn't going to mention this article, until I remembered what happened at the post office the other day. A woman was wearing a T-shirt that proclaimed her to be a NOT INFANT STEM CELLS survivor. She was SIX YEARS in remission from cancer, cured by the use of adult stem cells. A woman behind her in line asked about the shirt and the survivor launched into a pitch against fetal cell use and for adult cell use, and gave her a business card for their activist network, and also mentioned that you can donate the blood from your newborn's umbilical cord free of charge, and save as many as 5 lives with it.
And nobody gets murdered for their body parts. WIN!
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