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greendreams
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stem cell's from skin

I had my kids umbilical cords cryogenically frozen to save the stem cells. Looks like only a couple years until I can thaw em out and throw em away...
 
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stem cell's from skin

I had my kids umbilical cords cryogenically frozen to save the stem cells. Looks like only a couple years until I can thaw em out and throw em away...


Hopefully, after the Clown leaves office, the US will make it easier for this kind of research.
 
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Up there with McCarthyism, Vietnam, Iraq, Gitmo et al, the stem cell debate is gonna look really, really fucking stupid in fifty years' time.


The Lithos School of Curiousity is now enrolling
 
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stem cell's from skin

I had my kids umbilical cords cryogenically frozen to save the stem cells. Looks like only a couple years until I can thaw em out and throw em away...


You should try to recycle your kids, you know. Bad for the enviornment to just throw them away like that.


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Up there with McCarthyism, Vietnam, Iraq, Gitmo et al, the stem cell debate is gonna look really, really fucking stupid in fifty years' time.
Not to mention humans in general. What with them having only four limbs and two eyes.


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Up there with McCarthyism, Vietnam, Iraq, Gitmo et al, the stem cell debate is gonna look really, really fucking stupid in fifty years' time.


The "debate" looks really stupid now.
 
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so anybody a biologist? How easy is this to replicate?

I know a japanese team went on from creating these stem cells to create a mouse embryo. How far are we from using these cells to create a liver? a spine?

are we talking a month, ten years, decades?
 
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Not stem cells from skin but a possible future application.


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from ScienceDaily (Dec. 11, 2007) — Children born with inherited metabolic disorders that cause organ failure and early death can be treated successfully with umbilical cord blood transplants from unrelated donors and, in some cases go on to live for many years, according to a study led by Duke University Medical Center researchers.


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ok I won't throw away that umbelical blood. I mean cryogenics are too cool to stop anyways..
 
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Up there with McCarthyism, Vietnam, Iraq, Gitmo et al, the stem cell debate is gonna look really, really fucking stupid in fifty years' time.
I'm thining people will just erase all this in 50 years time and splice in Pleasantville.


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