By Slugsie, on June 5th, 2009Here’s something that people with poor or no vision will be excited about: three patients had their sight restored in less than a month by contact lenses cultured with stem cells.
via Gizmodo – Stem Cell Contact Lenses Cure Blindness in Less Than a Month – Stem Cells.
This is why Stem Cell research is important and needs to be funded. The results of this test are impressive, even if the research team are still guarded about the long term effectiveness.
June 5th, 2009 | 
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There is a group of physicians, patients and other interested people working together to get treatment with adult stem cells legalized in the U.S. as it should be. The organization was formed in response to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent position that the adult stem cells found in everyone’s body are drugs. A person’s cells (autologous) should be their own and NOT regulated by the FDA. That is one of the major reasons why most stem cell clinics are overseas. This stance is ridiculous and is costing millions of lives while sick Americans wait for the use of their own stem cells which would improve their quality of life. The FDA is not protecting us, but hurting us. Please ask your family and friends to sign up (“JOIN”), and get as many doctors to sign up as well. Please see The American Stem Cell Therapy Association (ASCTA) site and the associated Safe Stem Cells Now patient site. If enough people sign up and show a protest to this thing, the FDA will have to back down. They have no right to claim your own tissue is a “drug” to be regulated by them in the first place.
Patient Site: http://www.safestemcells.org
Physician Site: http://www.stemcelldocs.org
It is ridiculous that governments seem to think that they can take ownership of parts of individuals bodies, and what those individuals do with them. Personal liberty implies that it’s my body, and I can do with it (or the constituent bits of it) what I want.
With regards to where the research is done – I don’t care really. Remember, I’m British, so I am overseas to you. As long as the research is undertaken in a fair and open manner – as most purely scientific research is, it doesn’t matter where it is undertaken, we can all benefit. I’m even OK with some of the big drugs companies doing the research. One the knowledge is available then things get better.