Huntington's Disease Cured in Mice
Wow. Researchers have been able to stop mice from developing Huntington's disease symptoms by inhibiting an enzyme that works on a protein, that is responsible for destroying brain function. This is fantastic news and was published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell.
This breakthrough illustrates a too often forgotten point: Most of biotechnology is uncontroversial, as in this case, in which there is not an embryonic stem cell in sight.
Post Script: Animals were needed in this medical researchers. If it were up to the animal liberationists, this wonderful potential breakthrough would never have been discovered.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 10:04 PM
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2 Comments:
i'm glad i have a better chance at longer life. people with huntinton's are worth a few thousand mice.
I am also glad that such a brake thrugh is upon us. My mother is in stage 3 of Huntingtons. It maybe too late for her but by the time i have grand kids there maybe something for us humans to take to stop or postpone the progresstion of Huntingtons. Now if we could only get the devils in Washington to alow stem cell research, the next generation maybe cured.
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