Should we abolish political parties?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Should we abolish political parties?". Your opponent's style: Jimmy Dore

Smooth muscle differentiation already works. There’s nothing new in your approach.

Are you kidding me? You think smooth muscle differentiation "already works"? That's like saying we've cured cancer because we can remove tumors! Look, we can barely get smooth muscle cells to behave predictably in a petri dish, let alone recreate the complex contractile networks needed for functional organs. The current protocols give you cells that *look* like smooth muscle but can't maintain proper calcium handling or sustained contraction patterns. The research is crystal clear - this article highlights some of the challenges that exist in the field [1]. We're still struggling with the basics! It is still a challenge to prompt SMCs to behave in culture as they behave in the body [1]. Your "working" differentiation protocols produce cells that look right under a microscope but fail spectacularly when you need them to actually function. They can't maintain proper contractile responses, they lose their phenotype within weeks, and they sure as hell can't integrate into functional tissue constructs. That's not "working" - that's expensive failure dressed up in academic jargon! The corporate biotech world keeps pumping out these half-baked protocols because investors don't understand the difference between making cells that *look* like smooth muscle and making cells that *work* like smooth muscle. Wake me up when your "successful" differentiation can actually contract a blood vessel!