Heard about adult stem cell news lately?

Research on them is “rocking and rolling along”, as Wesley Smith puts it.

It is really quite remarkable how impressively research in to adult stem cells have advanced.  Now, animal studies show that they might be used to help prematurely born babies grow lung tissue.

Wesley quotes an article in Science Daily, and it’s both positive and enthusiastic.

“The really exciting thing that we discovered was that stem cells are like little factories, pumping out healing factors,” says Dr. Thébaud, an Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Clinical Scholar. “That healing liquid seems to boost the power of the healthy lung cells and helps them to repair the lungs.”

Ethical stem cells continue to prove their amazing power. But embryonic stem cell research still gets the attention, and the funds. Although they’re not only unethical, they’re unsuccessful.

Embryonic stem-cell research proponents promise more than the science can deliver, a stem-cell expert for the Family Research Council told a Rapid City audience Wednesday.

“Ethical debate aside, with embryonic stem cells, as well as with cloning, there’s nothing there,” said biochemist David Prentice…

Wesley wondered….”Hello?” But there’s no one there to answer, either.