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- doig007, on 10/12/2007, -3/+108What's next, a human grown from ONE cell!!!?
Oh, wait, that's me. - drizek, on 10/12/2007, -2/+66a fertilized egg is just once cell.
- jerryparid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32From a credible news source; not a ***** blogspot
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1834654020070219 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28@Parokki
Humans are diploid (46 chromosomes) dominant. Sperm cells and egg cells are only haploid (23 chromosomes).
Humans start as one cell with 46 chromosomes. I dunno where you learned biology, but you might want to try again. - reevolutn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11womderful!
- affanjam, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19Jesus?
- deftech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Soon we will have little teeth running all over the place.
- colincornaby, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Wow. Sony was right about the power of the Cell.
- spiffistan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12This is just a link to a crappy blog that uses three exclamation points after every headline. Blogspam is lame (!!!).
- samcrut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10of course it's better! Surgery that complicated happens during nappy time. You would go cross eyed while counting backwards from 10 and then wake up with a sore jaw and a new tooth.
I'd take a new tooth over crowns and partials any day. - sarazen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9So does this mean.....no more root canals!?! Wooo!
- bobpaul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Agreed. Buried as Lame.
A) All humans start as one cell, as noted in the initial comments, so this is a "No *****"
B) Linked to lame blog. Lame blog DOESNT EVEN LINK Reuters. Original link here: http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1834654020070219
C) Reuters headline: Japanese scientists grow teeth from single cells, 100x more interesting - ncdave101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Well I can't image that tooth replacement would be a pain-free panacea. Think about it: If replacing an existing (albeit broken/rotted) tooth they'd still have to extract the existing tooth (possibly still needing to drill to remove a root or two!), clean and prepare the area for reception (scrape, grind, drill) of the new tooth and sew up the gums afterward. Not to mention probably being restricted from eating any significantly "hard" foods until the tooth has fully "grabbed" into the bone.
That doesn't sound any better than a root canal to me. - aprice2704, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7No through link to source story. No digg. :(
- weister42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7They should of grown some boobs.
- DarkPrincess74, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6With this technology the tooth fairy won't need to pay kids for teeth anymore. Won't someone think of the children??
- sexycommando, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Woah does that mean I can grow rows of new teeth like a shark?
- JimSartor, on 10/12/2007, -10/+15I don't care if we can grow an entire new body for people and live forever and heal babies with 3rd degree burns on their faces and arms and end most of human suffering . . . if it kills or wastes even a single egg or sperm it is wrong. Besides, do mice really need new teeth? What a waste of time!
I think that's how the argument goes anyway. I don't really know, it's so ridiculous that it's hard to memorize.
Go Science! I need some new lungs soon, I decided to quit not smoking.
-jim - Valdar729, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I own a dental labratory (that means we make fake teeth) and I'm sorry to crush your dreams, but this will only replace teeth for those who have strong gingival (gum) areas.
Most major tooth loss is due to weakening of the gums and their inability to hold on to the root of the tooth.
Plus, there are issues with shade matching. Sure, you can have a newly grown tooth put into your mouth, but you think the color is going to match the 30 year old teeth already in your mouth? It could work for posteriors, but I think a crown would be a lot less painful and MUCH cheaper.
As an interesting side note, my dental lab sells crowns for $60/each on average (our cheapest is $47, most expensive is $119). How much is your dentist charging you? I'm guessing anywhere from $500-$2000. If they ever blame the "lab fees", don't believe them. And we're not small time, we make about 200 teeth/day so we reach a wide range of dentists nationally. - aprice2704, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Ah that's better. :)
- clonejks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is *very* promising for the future of medicine.
- seattle98104, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5looks like someone bought themselves some nice diggs.
- drizek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I heard you could grow an entire digger from just one cell.
- bloodmoney, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Damn, mice have it pretty ***** good these days. Those guys have all the cures.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6@jimsartor
You're right. Lets stop heart surgery, too. Heart surgery has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, but even so, the first heart surgery patient died 3 days after the surgery. What a waste.
STOP HEART SURGERY!
Also, "if it kills or wastes even a single egg or sperm it is wrong."
I'm assuming you have never ejaculated. If you have ever in your life ejaculated, you killed countless sperm. BASTARD! - giddytonk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2When in the fuq are they going to be able to grow hair!? The Rogaine aint workin!!!
- mikemcewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Where's the peer-reviewed journal article? I will be at the International Association for Dental Research in March and I'll believe it when I see it!
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3How the hell did this get enough diggs to get to the front page is what I'd like to know.
- LogicBomB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There was another breakthrough involving a UV-device implanted into the mouth which over time forces the body to grow a new tooth. It took a few months but apparently worked quite well.
As my mouth has about as much metal as it does bone and how I haven't gone to the dentist in about 5 years, I am very anxious for dentistry to become more a matter of replacement than it is fixing. - kfconme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3damn it, you beat me to it! ;[
- Idiot900, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2On a somewhat related and much more disgusting note: ovarian teratomas (a type of ovarian tumor) can actually include hair and teeth: http://images.google.com/images?q=ovarian%20teratoma
- mark1372, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Somehow a science blog with a header that says "Science-Core is the core of all Science!!!" doesn't have the same authoritative feel as, oh, any site that doesn't abuse exclamation marks.
- Mongoose, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Very interesting, but the horrible blog writing makes me hesitant to give it a digg...
- ziki, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Thats ***** hard...i mean...Science core!!
- Sornos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Don't forget ManBearPig
- osbjmg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was about to say the same type of comment. I don't even see a source besides text saying "Courtesy: Reuters"
It may be true, but any document with multiple punctuation marks used in succession can't be too terribly official. - MyNameIsJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yessss!!! I was beginning to think that my years of not flossing were going to catch up to me. But now I can throw away my old cavity ridden teeth for new ones. I love science.
- doctechnical, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@ jimsartor: "..if it kills or wastes even a single egg or sperm it is wrong."
And it makes God kill kittens.
Please, think of the kittens! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's F'n scary disgusting. It's only a matter of time before all kinds of genetic abominations start getting created. Man-bat, Man-igator, Manticore, giant walking dick, ninja lizards. Yeah, you can grow teeth in petrie dish, but Bigfoot isn't real!
- Plant11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think it needed more exclamation points.
- Mihai12345, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I heard that diggers think with just one cell.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"if it kills or wastes even a single egg or sperm it is wrong"
You ignorant fool.... - dchaosdx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1What about a man-o-lantern?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Pshh! ManBearPig isn't REAL! Jeez! Now Scuzzlebutt with Patrick Duffy for a leg is another story. *shivers*
- Paroparo, on 10/12/2007, -40/+40Most of us take two cells to build, but I guess you're special.
- fixedcoma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0One question ? Jow do you get a tooth to eat??
- gameace12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That looks promising hopefully eventually it can help people. Even teeth could help people, it may hurt but if let's say it's someone who got in a car wreck and they've had all of their teeth knocked out it could help people like that. Of course there will always be dentures etc, but maybe eventually you can regrow your teeth without much if any pain if anything happens to them.
- aibotca, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We all start as a cell ... cell division will produce new cells, do that a lot of times and you get something ... the Japanese sure made a big discovery there, woohoo!
Buried as Lame. - litoralis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0giddytonk - check out Intercytex and their ICX-TRC product.
ICX-TRC is an autologous hair regeneration therapy intended for the treatment of male pattern baldness and female diffuse alopecia.
A small sample of hair follicles is taken from the patient during a simple 30 minute operation carried out under local anaesthetic at a hair or skin clinic. The clinic will send the biopsy to Intercytex’ manufacturing facility where the hair-inductive dermal papilla cells are dissociated from the rest of the follicle. These cells are cultured and expanded in proprietary media over three weeks and subsequently returned to the clinic in a sterile suspension. Using a specialised delivery system, the hair-inductive dermal papilla cells are microinjected intradermally into the patient’s scalp. The treatment is performed under local anaesthetic and comprises a single procedure of superficial injections, each injection delivering a minute volume of media containing dermal papilla cells capable of inducing new hair growth. Following the procedure, new hair growth should become evident after approximately three months.
Intercytex is developing a robotic system with The Automation Partnership for the commercial-scale production of patients’ autologous dermal papilla (DP) cells. The robotic system has an established track record in processing many different cell samples simultaneously. It is vital that at this scale, in which a large numbers of different patients’ cells are handled, that all samples remain isolated throughout the multiplication process.
It is intended that ICX-TRC will be used by specialists in hair transplant centres, dermatologists and plastic surgeons to treat patients with hair thinning or hair loss.
Intercytex will initially develop ICX-TRC to treat male pattern baldness and expand the indication to include treatment of female diffuse alopecia. - MinisterOrange, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Exactly We can do all the acid and ecstacy we want now!
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