phil, in a recent post from Joan E. Blessington Snyder she wrote about a conference she sponsored in peoria. quoted from joan - "On Sunday, PLWP presented a wonderfully informative symposium, Patients As Providers. Eighty-five people with PD came to this forum and were able to participate in the spirited conversation that followed talks by Dr. Phillip Jobe, Dr. Rick Weber & Dr. Jai Cumar." i attended that meeting. i believe it was dr. webber who said that it takes many embryonic stem cells to help one person. maybe i misunderstood. sami -- On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 20:07:41 Phil Tompkins wrote: >Hello, > >On 17 Jul 2001, at 18:42, samantha pudge wrote: > >> current research requires many embryos to help one person. to >> help all of us, would require deliberately creating thousands of >> embryos. > >Actually, it's the reverse. The benefit of embryonic stem cells is >that they multiply readily and many times over. So cells from one >embryo will help many people. > >Phil Tompkins > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] >In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn