Wednesday, March 11, 2009

All of God's children means "ALL" of God's children!


And that includes human embryonic stem cells!


Doing some digging with Google, I learned that all stem cells are essentially the building blocks of the human body.

The stem cells inside an embryo will eventually give rise to every cell, organ and tissue in the fetus's body. Unlike a regular cell, which can only replicate to create more of its own kind of cell, a stem cell is pluripotent. When it divides, it can make any one of the 220 different cells in the human body. Stem cells also have the capability to self-renew -- they can reproduce themselves many times over.

There are two types of stem cells: embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells. Embryonic stem cells come from an embryo -- the mass of cells in the earliest stage of human development (shown above) that, if implanted in a woman's womb, will eventually grow into a fetus. When the embryo is between three and five days old, it contains stem cells, which are busily working to create the various organs and tissues that will make up the human fetus.

That is, PEOPLE--like you and me!

Keeping with his aura of Presidential demeanor, Obama said--as he signed the Executive Order (shown below), "That is why today, I am also signing a Presidential Memorandum directing the head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop a strategy for restoring scientific integrity to government decision making."

Sounds like, "Kill 'em, if that's what you scientists want to do!" to me.

All smiles--except among the very tiniest of God's children ...

3 Comments:

At 1:44 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oops. I thought you meant "All of God's Chickens".

Always stay sweet,

Sweetrheart

 
At 12:51 PM, Blogger endcentralbs said...

While you guys are contemplating all of those big issues of the cosmos, all I can think of is why Bristol Palin isn't marrying that nice boy who is the father of her child.
Gem.

 
At 10:30 PM, Blogger mediawingnuts said...

Gem--

She's simply recognizing that she has some growing to do before taking on the role of wife as well as mother. Congratulations to them both--all of them, actually.

Uncle Joe

 

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