Sixteen-year-old Dimitri Bonnville had already been accidentally
\nshot in the heart with a nail gun while doing home repair, undergone open-heart
\nsurgery and suffered a massive heart attack, when doctors told his parents he
\nneeded a heart transplant. The doctors did offer an alternative: Bonnville could
\nbecome the first human to receive experimental stem-cell therapy to revive his
\ndamaged heart tissue. They went ahead with the procedure, the results of which
\ncould turn the stem-cell debate on its head.<\/p>\n
…However, the Beaumont procedure doesn’t require embryonic
\nstem cells at all, because the necessary cells were taken from Bonnville’s own
\nblood. The experimental therapy also eliminates the need for another intensely
\ndebated technique: therapeutic cloning. Audio Hear Dr. Cindy Grines describe
\nthe stem-cell procedure. The assumption that therapeutic cloning is key to the
\nsuccess of embryonic stem-cell therapies (none of which has yet been shown to
\nwork) has permeated both the stem-cell and cloning debates. <\/p>\n
…Since Bonnville’s own cells were used in the procedure, Sixteen-year-old Dimitri Bonnville had already been accidentally shot in the heart with a nail gun while doing home repair, undergone open-heart surgery and suffered a massive heart attack, when doctors…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nrejection isn’t a concern, O’Neill said. “They’re his own cells, highly concentrated,
\nand we put them into the damaged area,” he said. “We wouldn’t anticipate anything
\ndifferent than we would normally.”
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