Will irreparable brain damage soon belong to the past?
Upheaval in the US as the government is funding what opponents call “completely insane” brain transplant research to replace damaged brain cells. As always, many scientists can’t deal with emotions that come along progress.
But geneticist Dr. Jean Hébert has now been awarded a $110 million NIH grant to develop a surgery to replace malfunctioning or aging brain cells with cell material from human embryos.
The procedure involves repairing the ailing brain tissue with neuronal stem cells from embryo’s grown in labs.
Similar procedures with mice embryos showed promising results.
The stem cells for this purpose are abundant in human embryos as after fertilization of the egg cells further development into a human being takes place.
Sometimes even in science things can be as easy as it can be. This procedure seems to work and it doesn’t require understanding aging is what one of the co-founders of the “Longevity Biotech Fellowship”, said.
Humans usually strive to improve longevity. But there are others not capable of dealing with too much improvement. Medieval minds dare to call these kinds of developments diabolical.
Many falsely believe they know God but haven’t the slightest understanding of how life originated and what the purpose of human kind on this planet and the role in the universe is.
We know all about false morality. The hatred from politicians and media who loves it projecting bad images by ridiculing and criminalizing scientific progress. Moralists having no objections against gender surgery practices that drive many young people who later regret their “body change” over the edge of self destruction.
In Europe, even something normal as the implantation of gender selected embryo’s are stipulated as full blown horror.
Thank Goodness there are better places.
The functional brain tissue replacement Dr. Hébert’s is working on is warmly supported by the US government after first signs of success last year in mice’s. There is also evidence that thawing brain cells causes no harm at all. This paved the way to ultimately develop a full treatment.
In the short term, scientists can get along with further research. Thanks to the positive stance of the government research on primates is possible, legal and funded.
It is a matter of making a better tomorrow as one day the project they can scale up to human trials.