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Watching the video clips it struck me that the speakers were not "talking-up" the results, but seemed to be genuinely upbeat for the future. Encouraging stuff.
First, thanks for posting this Becca. It's nice to see that Cambridge is following the path laid out before them by several others and actually trying to get something in the works for their country. Wish somebody here would do that, instead of trying to put up as many roadblocks as possible. I like how Mr. Bacon speaks of optimism and realism. Seems to be a fellow with some really nice insight.
Interesting that Cambridge is just now figuring out the positive effects of condroitinase in SCI. It's been used in Portugal and Russia for some time now, along with two other procedures of cell transplantation, and with quite a bit of success (At least it's deemed success by the definitions of most here from what I've read on the poll booth.). Interesting how it's such a big deal when it's done at Cambridge almost a decade later, but wasn't a big deal when Dr. Lima did it almost a decade ago on human patients. Not quite as remarkable of results in human application, but that's to be expected with a much larger cord to work with, and a much longer time from injury to treatment. Dr. Lima has published his results in neuro journals and on the web, but there seem to be few who even know about him. Kind of gives a good example of media bias. It's the same way here in the US, where our media made a big deal of the funding given by the new administration for embryonic stem cell research, but failed to mention that adult autologous cells had already been used to treat many of the conditions they wanted us to believe ESCs would help. Just fascinates me how the media here, and in several other places like to keep things out of the news until somebody in their own country does it. It's kind of a drag that foolish pride has become so important that information is intentionally withheld to make the public think this or that, whatever the flavor of the week may be.
Interesting that Cambridge is just now figuring out the positive effects of condroitinase in SCI. It's been used in Portugal and Russia for some time now, along with two other procedures of cell transplantation, and with quite a bit of success (At least it's deemed success by the definitions of most here from what I've read on the poll booth.). Interesting how it's such a big deal when it's done at Cambridge almost a decade later, but wasn't a big deal when Dr. Lima did it almost a decade ago on human patients. Not quite as remarkable of results in human application, but that's to be expected with a much larger cord to work with, and a much longer time from injury to treatment. Dr. Lima has published his results in neuro journals and on the web, but there seem to be few who even know about him. Kind of gives a good example of media bias. It's the same way here in the US, where our media made a big deal of the funding given by the new administration for embryonic stem cell research, but failed to mention that adult autologous cells had already been used to treat many of the conditions they wanted us to believe ESCs would help. Just fascinates me how the media here, and in several other places like to keep things out of the news until somebody in their own country does it. It's kind of a drag that foolish pride has become so important that information is intentionally withheld to make the public think this or that, whatever the flavor of the week may be.
QUOTE (Becca82 @ Aug 10 2009, 06:36 AM) 
Thank you Becca82:
Have you had a chance to checkout Dr. Young's clinical trial studies at CareCure forum: sci.rutgers.edu?
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