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1. The fastballs were humming out of Bartolo Colon's right hand Wednesday night, the Yankee starter's heat routinely registering in the low to mid-90s on the radar gun.
Colon's strong outings and lively fastball are all the more notable after the former Cy Young winner missed the entire 2010 season due to elbow surgery. The two seasons prior to 2010, Colon was in severe decline, making just 19 starts for two different teams during that stretch.
Colon was the beneficiary of a legal stem cell procedure in 2010, even though stem cell treatment is still very much a developing science.
Stem cells were taken from Colon's bone marrow and fat tissue and were then injected into Colon's elbow and shoulder to help repair damaged ligaments and a torn rotator cuff
MLB investigates Yankees' Bartolo Colon stem cell procedure; technology is still in its infancy
2. The President's [March 9, 2009] decision does much more than expand funding for stem-cell research. It heralds a shift in the government's view of science, ushering in an era in which it promises to defend science and the pursuit of useful treatments against ideology. Time, March 9, 2009
3. While the potency and success of adult stem cell treatments are becoming evident, treatments using embryonic stem cells have not produced any clinical successes. Rather, embryonic stem cell treatments tend to create tumors in numerous animal studies. The public should ponder these issues and ask why the media do not cover such results. In a world with limited funds for research, why are we arguing about unproven and often dangerous embryonic stem cell treatments when treatments using adult stem cells are today producing real results for real patients? Adult Stem Cell Success
So, continued success for adult stem cell treatments, nothing for embrionic stem cells?
Where's that hope and change....
Colon's strong outings and lively fastball are all the more notable after the former Cy Young winner missed the entire 2010 season due to elbow surgery. The two seasons prior to 2010, Colon was in severe decline, making just 19 starts for two different teams during that stretch.
Colon was the beneficiary of a legal stem cell procedure in 2010, even though stem cell treatment is still very much a developing science.
Stem cells were taken from Colon's bone marrow and fat tissue and were then injected into Colon's elbow and shoulder to help repair damaged ligaments and a torn rotator cuff
MLB investigates Yankees' Bartolo Colon stem cell procedure; technology is still in its infancy
2. The President's [March 9, 2009] decision does much more than expand funding for stem-cell research. It heralds a shift in the government's view of science, ushering in an era in which it promises to defend science and the pursuit of useful treatments against ideology. Time, March 9, 2009
3. While the potency and success of adult stem cell treatments are becoming evident, treatments using embryonic stem cells have not produced any clinical successes. Rather, embryonic stem cell treatments tend to create tumors in numerous animal studies. The public should ponder these issues and ask why the media do not cover such results. In a world with limited funds for research, why are we arguing about unproven and often dangerous embryonic stem cell treatments when treatments using adult stem cells are today producing real results for real patients? Adult Stem Cell Success
So, continued success for adult stem cell treatments, nothing for embrionic stem cells?
Where's that hope and change....