NeuroTalk Support Groups - interview/video with calif. pd stem cell researcher, feb 2013

She is telling it like it is, and her dream is our cure, maybe going as far as eliminating the years of slow decline into oblivion, and actually promise to result in dramatic functional increases. As always, we must inform the vast majority of those who would support an immediate push into this much maligned, obviously insanely simple approach, (yet held back by the continued bugaboo " fetal cells" , which still continues to push research avoidance syndrome in this infinitely more promising route to the next best thing to a cure for more and more of us as clinical data piles up) that there is no wholesale slaughter of embryos in their 3rd trimester to satisfy an insatiable need for more abortion material. I know it sounds kinda stupid of me, but that is really my take on why we let the first crude evidence that nature could regenerate or repair lost neuronal function in human Parkinsonism, point the direction of research. I mean how much has been spent over those decades and all we have are drugs and brain surgery? The Swedish and other studies, what, now decades past, and with today's advanced technology get lost like the burning of all books at Alexandria,so long ago, we can't even produce reliable, viable and inexpensive cell cultures derived from a variety of culture and cloning techniques which will work in vivo? Bull carp. There are many sources for these therapeutic wonders. I just hope that the up and coming biological researchers will face a less hostile and intractable public response to the whole issue. Some amazing discoveries could blossom forth from the logical, responsible and totally possible application of current reach within this field. cs