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This is going to be a controversial topic, yet one that has been in turmoil in my heart for the past few years. So I will release this in Tubag Bohol. The success of the medical community is undeniable, millions if not billions of lives have been saved due to progress in research, design and statistics of drugs, surgical procedures and therapy programs. Science, however, isn't a magic 'tool' that comes without a price nor is it a field of study that comes without blood, toil and sweat. Sacrifices have been made in order to prolong and continue the glories of scientific claim.

Do you, as intellectuals of Tubag Bohol, believe that medical science should be restricted from adopting procedures that are considered 'unethical' and 'unchristian'. Or do you believe that science should be allowed to proceed and take proper  actions deemed necessary to arrive to a positive and causative conclusion on a particular research? Hands free, so to say.

As a biologist, and one who engages in laboratory research on a daily process, I cannot help but realize how much we as a race and a people have limited ourselves and limited our ability to aid those in need while subscribing to some of the core ethical values in the field of science. I will admit that as a man of faith, and as a biologist who will be continuing to medical school, I feel torn between these two ideas. However, I personally believe that the use of fetal stem cells are crucial to research. Harvesting fetal stem cells are necessary considering the adaptability of the said cells; their ability to 'mold' to any specific cell tissue is magnanimous to any research. Within them, holds the the answer to why key proteins and enzymes aid in the transcription, and the translation of the said processes. Key issues that is revolved around this is the question of neural death, neuritic stasis of the Central and the peripheral nervous system, in particular.

Do you know that diseases such as Alzheimer's, visceral failures can be reversed? So much data can be accumulated if it was not for the prevailing and theme of negativity and distrust of medical science; and the limitations in place.

For one particular example, a study by Met life found that adults over the age of 55 years of age fear Alzheimer's more than carcinoma (cancer). But what is perhaps most frightening is that available treatments for the disease are by and large ineffective. Research from Georgetown University several years ago suggested that a new class of anti-Alzheimer's molecule, spirostenols, might undo some of the characteristic pathophysiology of Alzheimer affected brains. Further testing showed that one such molecule, Caprospinol, actually reversed the course of an Alzheimer like condition induced in rats.

The buildup of beta-amyloid plaque in the brain has been recognized as a hallmark sign of alzheimers for close to a century. Significant research points this to the build up as a causative factor in the development and progression of the disease. Until recently this hypothesis could not be tested definitely because the lack of treatments that eliminate beta-amyloid plaques.

However, current research have demonstrated in a rat animal model, used to test new innovative drugs for Alzheimer's disease, that Caprospinol clears amyloid plaque from the brain and restored memory. More impressively, treated rats perform as well or better in standardized  behavioral tests than healthy control animals. In addition to eliminating plaque, Caprospinol appears to reverse the damage to memory and cognition that amyloid plaque causes.
Medical research took rats that were normal and induced Alzheimer symptoms as well as induced beta amyloid plaques to form in their neural system; then they took those same rats and treated them with Caprospinol. The Caprospinol brought about significant positive changes in brain physiology. Neuritic plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, astrogliosis, microgliosis, neuronal death, and tissue shrinking were all either reversed or markedly improved.

The debate within the scientific community is to proceed with this. Human Testing.

The reason why I brought this up is because this particular example is an example of the positives in harvesting fetal stem cells, the production and development of Caprospinol was a result of using and implementing fetal stem cells in research. There are those in the religious and in the ethical sectors that want a ban of drugs such as Caprospinol due to the methods in acquiring it. I personally believe it is outrageous and ludicrous to prevent the march of science. Progress, is our right as a species, and a gift given to us by God Himself. Why limit our God-given right to save our own? Diba?

My friends, it is possible, with time and research and the use of fetal stem cells to cure and prevent myocardial infarction, the cloning of organ systems vis-a-vis the use of fetal stem cells. The possibility of reversing the ravages of time on the neural system; reversing and aiding in the re-growth of a damaged heart, liver, kidney. The possibility of inducing the protein translation and transcription of the myelin sheath that surrounds the axon in the Nervous system. The possibility of aiding of the re-calcificaiton of osteoblasts and osteoclasts (bones) and defy nature's law of aging.

What I am trying to say is, there is, medically-speaking, a way to literally enhance our life standards. Our life expectancy. Semi-immortality.

But how can we reach our full potential when there are so many restraints to the very science that has changed and altered the very world that we live in.

We take for granted the miraculous touch of medical science. The aspirin that we take to inhibit pain receptors, to decrease the symptoms of fever, to thin the blood and thereby reduce the possibility of a heart attack, the drugs such as lipitor, antispasmodics, laxatives, analgesics, antibiotics, antivirals, surgical procedures, visceral (organ) transplants, etc. All of this we all take for granted. But all of this, has been given to us not by ethical values, but by PURE and RAW medical scientific research. Practiced.

What say you, my brothers and sisters? What is your view?

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