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Chip
06-06-2007, 10:24 PM
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-sci-stemcells7jun07,1,525861.story?coll=chi-news-hed

All the muss, none of the fuss. Scientists were able to turn a mouse's tail cells into cells that were virtually the same as embryonic stem cells. Next is to try it with humans, and if it works, then there's a limitless supply of stem cells without the ethical issue of taking them from embryos.

This could be really really big in the organ donation/replacement field.

-Chip
kremidas
06-06-2007, 10:42 PM
This is great news!
Edison
06-07-2007, 11:39 AM
Rejection-free transplants, cures for disease, free from the 'guilt of murder' ..all wonderful.

The little perks? Soon "Hair Club For Men" will be a thing of the past, as all the balding dudes flock to the stem cell clinics for their own grown.

You know it'll happen.
stonelake
06-07-2007, 01:09 PM
Does this mean I can finally have that mouse tail I've always wanted?
Juan
06-07-2007, 01:38 PM
I wish I had a clone. I know way off subject but still I do wish I had a clone.
Gentrup
06-07-2007, 01:39 PM
But if I still want them to kill a baby to get stem cells for me, they'll do it, right?

I'd feel better knowing something had to die for me to get gorgeous, flowing locks.
schaefe
06-07-2007, 02:32 PM
The little perks? Soon "Hair Club For Men" will be a thing of the past, as all the balding dudes flock to the stem cell clinics for their own grown.

You know it'll happen.

No. Fucking. Way.

Bald is teh awesome.

:)
Edison
06-07-2007, 04:26 PM
No. Fucking. Way.

Bald is teh awesome.

:)

I hear ya, Schaefe. I've embraced my baldness enough, sporting a shaved pate for a decade;
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a122/edisongirard/dadnmiles.jpg

..Though I haven't had bangs since my mid 20s.
(I do miss that.)

Rolling with the gene pool will always rule, but the vanity market is ready and waiting to be tapped. Someday stem-cell based hair restoration will be as common as lasic surgery and the ancient art of 'weaving' will be a footnote in history. ..as much as 'powdered wigs'.
Chip
06-07-2007, 05:15 PM
It turns out Stonelake's mouse tail was there all along.

I would like stem cells to give me my 16-year-old metabolism and/or abs.

-Chip