Lebensschützer on Abwegen

Operated world: After the successful Reprogrammierung from skin cells to embryonic main cells Germany Embryonenschützer explains suddenly embryonic stem cell researchers as confederates, in order to save the German master cell law. But the resistance against the conservative interpretation sovereignty over the tables reserved for regulars is formed.

It was the like a Christian dominated Federal association life right (BVL), which shot the bird. On the day after publication of the research work to the Reprogrammierung from skin cells to cells, which resemble embryonic main cells, the BVL with a statement went into the offensive, whose nuclear statement is wiedergekäut since then of far parts of the conservative establishment:

„With the sensational results of Shinya Yamanaka and James Thomsom, published in the technical periodicals `Science' and `Cell', is to the renewable medicine now beside navel cord blood and adulten main cells a third promising, ethicalally acceptable source for further research at the disposal. The BVL requests the delegates of the German Bundestag to stop the efforts around a novella of the master cell law immediately. “

One must be able to be zergehen that on the tongue. Only democratically selected delegates verbal the pistol is set here on the chest. Only complicated and research results which can be provided with many question marks are sold overall as sensational break-through, because it fits the own argumentation. Also still two considerable embryonic stem cell researchers are taken in captivity as a hostage, in order to forbid exactly what these researchers make for years, in Germany.

To keep reached into best tradition of the moral self increased height here heedlessly on the results of research work back, which would have been not at all permitted in Germany, only in order even a white waistcoat. One finds obviously nothing simultaneous to the fact that German researchers, who would have wanted themselves to take part in these „sensational “research work, skillfully would not have this at all, because in Germany for it owing to master cell law criminal consequences threaten. More hypocritically it hardly goes.

Liberalisation of the master cell law wins supporters
After a fright rigidity of several days meanwhile in addition, the proponents of a change of the master cell law announce themselves in the coming year again to word, in order not to let the interpretation sovereignty be taken over the new results of the stem cell research from the hand. Fortunately for the stem cell research these voices come also from the CDU/CSU. „I have the feeling that those, which do not want to amend or limit the master cell law even further use, say completely consciously the Unwissen of the population “for example the chairman for education and research of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group, Michael Kretschmer. Kretschmer belongs to a parliamentary group-spreading group of delegate, who expresses itself for a change of the master cell law in the coming year.

Also Federal Minister of Research Annette Schavan signaled careful agreement. It has however the problem to be at the same time member in the central committee of the German catholics one of the centers of the embryo protection fundamentalism. To the memory: At present German researchers may work only with embryonic stem cell lines, which were produced before 1 January 2002. Kretschmer gave the German society for renewable medicine in Berlin on a meeting to minutes, it pleads to abolish the deadline completely. However is majorityable in the German Bundestag in no case, so that as well as the proponents of a more liberal master cell law at present aim at a shift of the deadline to in the middle of 2007 or at the beginning of 2008 a clarification of the exemption from punishment for German researchers, who take part abroad in the embryonic stem cell research.

New cells instead of „old scrap iron “
Scientifically this step is in the opinion prominent German stem cell researcher overdue: „We used the possibilities, which the legislator gave us, well, but we come now at borders “, said professor Anthony Ho from Heidelberg. Thus one had to learn in the last years that also embryonic main cells aged. Many old cell lines are meanwhile „old scrap iron “, which is replaced in countries, in which that is possible, long by newer, cleaner and better cell lines. New cell lines are for example no more by mouse cells contaminated and thus rather in clinical applications at humans applicable. Professor Frank Emmrich of the university clinic Leipzig could confirm that: The cell lines listed of originally over seventy with national institute OF Health are meanwhile only twenty remaining, tendency falling.

At the same time give it over 500 new cell lines, with which German scientists could not work because of the deadline regulation. Emmrich knew to report also from a young Forscherin to, which had received the offer because of their outstanding work in the area of the stem cell research to also work in one of the prominent working groups in this area in Canada. „We discussed the long and pointed the offer in the long run back, because it is legally uncalculable “, so Emmrich.

Applications at humans „a thing of decades “
It gives thus equal double need for a change of the master cell law, with the deadline and with the criminal classification. The argument, by the new research results redundantly becomes the further research at embryonic main cells, considers both Ho and Emmrich absurd. Ho absorbed expectations clearly: „Those are very early results. The reprogrammierten skin cells could be for example never used at humans, because they were transfiziert with viruses.

That can be able be done also differently, but we must investigate that first times, and for this research we need also further embryonic main cells. Up to clinical application it can take still years or decades. “At least for Michael Kretschmer draw such essentially justified arguments more strongly than ideologies: „Germany does not do well to it if spirit scientists judge of technological progress of the stem cell research, as that is for the moment the case. “

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>>Zumindest for Michael Kretschmer pull such essentially
>>justified arguments more strongly than ideologies: „Germany
>>does not do well to it if spirit scientists over techno
>>logical progress of the stem cell research judges, how
>>that for the moment the case is. “

Aha! To church let the fingers away from human life, if itself already researchers at selbigem seized. Bravo!