If You Can't Beat 'Em, Go to China!

I never thought of this as an option, but it is definitely viable and also legal for Americans to go to where you can stem cell treatment with little to no governmental influence. It's just a very expensive "plan B" from plane tickets, to hotels, and also the stem cell procedure. One man, Alexander McKenzie Wallace, despite the expense made this trip.

At age 70, Alexander made the trip to China this past September as a last chance to save his life and fight his disease, Ataxia. Ataxia' means ‘absence of order’. People with ataxia have problems of co-ordination. This is because parts of the nervous system that normally control co-ordination and balance are affected. Ataxia is the principal symptom of a group of neurological disorders called the cerebellar ataxias. Most are progressive, meaning your symptoms get worse.

What's most exciting though is watching Alex's improvement. I cannot embed the videos onto my blog but can provide links for you to read his interviews and see his videos. After only a month, Alexander went from only being to walk short distances and then neeeding a rest, to stamina improvement so much he could walk upstairs. His story is truly unbelievable.

Cheese Anyone?

In many of my blogs, I have mentioned how researchers have conducted experiments on mice and concluded their findings could be applied to humans. I didn't understand why until now. According to Dr Jane Rogers, Welcome Trust Sanger Institute, "We share 99% of our genes with mice, and we even have the genes that could make a tail." And not only that but, "The mouse "book of life" reveals that humans and mice share at least 80% of their genes, with only 300 unique to either organism."

America is not the only country conducting research on mice. The UK, China, and Japan, all use mice for scientific research. Scientists can work out what human genes do by "knocking out" similar looking genes in mice and studying the results.
Researchers can also trace the malfunctioning genes responsible for disease by examining sick mice that display symptoms apparently similar to human conditions. If I were you, I would think twice about killing this rodent that and sometimes unwelcome roommate.