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Originally Posted by mortis505  Why use Porcine when you could get human. | Human donors would not even begin to scratch the surface of the needed amount of Islet cells. Growing them from T-cells or in some other fashion is still not a possiblility.
There is nothing wrong with Porcine Cell Transplants. I've been following the debate for years and besides the mass hysteria that they cause the Nay-Sayers can't show any technical proof that there is anything unsafe about Porcine Xeno with encapsulation. No where in your article do you mention anything about encapsulation. there for I can only assume that you are interested in putting more people on horribly debilitating Anti-rejection drugs. These drugs are a fate worse than what we have now. I'm not for anything being put into my body that forces me to kill what little immune system is left to me after having had diabetes for the last 24 years.
Let's save the human donor cells for those of the Jewish and Islamic faith with diabetes that would be willing to have another's organs inside them and let the rest of us benefit from this new technology. both being encapsulated in an alginate cover will protect the islaets from our immune system and us from any possible secondary problems from anti rejection drugs. This way we can all be saved and the very few human donor cells that we do have can go to those who have a religious problem with using anything from a pig...
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__________________ The only way to manage diabetes is to CURE it... Diabetes since December, 1983 Meds: Humalog/Pump since 1998, Synthroid 88mcg, Zetia 10mg, Altace 10mg, Prevacid 30mg, Benfotiamine 600mg, 1-a-day multivitamin, Aspirin 325 mg, Garlic-geltab 4,000mg, methylcel. fiber therapy 2,000mg(for cholesterol) So, what's in your lunchbox? 
Funding JDRF to get rid of diabetes is like funding the Mafia to get rid of organized crime
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