Sam Brownback: “This first one is the list of 72 current clinical applications using adult stem cell therapy. No ethical problems on…”

“This first one is the list of 72 current clinical applications using adult stem cell therapy. No ethical problems on these. Actually, the list now is 73. I will cover that in just a minute, but I want to get that in. I want to back this letter up, or this statement up, with a letter that appeared in the magazine Science, January 19, 2007, that was refuting the article--that was a letter put forward by other individuals questioning this level of adult stem cell therapy and treatment. Then this letter which was in the Journal of Science was backed up by the third document we have here, which is a list of 14 pages of the peer-reviewed scientific articles on adult stem cell therapies and the benefits those have produced. Then the final document we have here in this stack that I will be putting forward is the article that just appeared out even today from JAMA, the Journal of American Medical Association, on Type 1 juvenile diabetes being treated with the use of adult stem cells. The results--I am just going to read these, because they are just so phenomenal, from this JAMA article: During a 7- to 36-month followup, 14 patients became insulin free; one for up to 35 months with this treatment. This was an adult human stem cell treatment. One patient was not able to become insulin-independent. The reason I cite that is it is such an exciting set of results. People have been talking on the floor a great deal about curing diabetes.”