digg

Join DiggAbout

Discover the best of the web!
Learn more about Digg by taking the tour.

See the original image at news.com.au

Troops' body Parts May Be Regrown Using Stem Cells

news.com.au — THE Pentagon is joining with universities and hospitals in $US250 million ($267m) research to discover how to help wounded soldiers regenerate skin, muscle and even limbs from their own stem cells.

Bury
show profanity settings
expand all
  • yellowcakewalk, on 04/22/2008, -24/+47Bring the troops home from the Permanent Imperial Occupation and Pillage of the Middle East, and they won't have their body parts blown off by the Resistance.
    • silentboom, on 04/22/2008, -9/+4True, if I kick your door in and vacuum the rugs in your house would you love me? Of course to make the comparison equivalent, the vacuum would set the house on fire.
      • Godlike, on 04/22/2008, -4/+3And make burn victims of your children while shredding your checkbook. Then you wouldn't be able to grow any food in your vast desert but hey, at least you'd have oil.
    • sub67, on 04/22/2008, -2/+2Stupid government, I guess they never watched Casshern.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casshern
    • halobender, on 04/22/2008, -2/+6Definitely occupation but pillage? Only military and oil companies are making money and they are making money off the American citizens.
      • bradspangler, on 04/27/2008, -0/+1But failing to successfully pillage wasn't part of the original intent -- or do you not remember the "kick their ass and take the gas" bumper stickers?
    • speakinglish, on 04/22/2008, -7/+7Hey, I don't like the war anymore than you do, but I'll tell you something (this is my second time in Iraq): You bring us home too early, and you'll be having to use that same technology to regrow limbs for yourself and your kids when your "Resistance" (*read: Insurgency) makes its way across the Atlantic again. It was wrong for us to come here, but now we can't just leave.
      • 11oops, on 04/22/2008, -4/+5What do you mean again? The last I heard, it's been proven without question that Iraq had no hand in 9/11.
        • Godlike, on 04/22/2008, -3/+2WOW REALLY BECAUSE AMERICA HAD A HUGE HAND IN THE MURDER OF THOUSANDS OF IRAQIS. GUESS NOBODY CARES ABOUT THEM, AMERICAN LIVES MUST BE THE ONLY IMPORTANT ONES.
          • 11oops, on 04/22/2008, -1/+2Umm, how the ***** is that relevant to my post? I say we should leave without fear that the Iraqi boogeymen will follow us home, and we certainly shouldn't draw the conclusion that because 'they' attacked us on 9/11 (note that in real-life and not speakinglish' twisted mind, they doesn't equal Iraqis, but rather Saudis) they'll 'do it again'.

            Quite frankly, the only way to quell the violence is to leave -- even if there is a temporary increase immediately after our departure, it will only be temporary. However, if we choose to stay, that violence will be permanent.
          • Godlike, on 04/22/2008, -1/+2Maybe it doesnt apply to everyone but if you are an Iraqi you see America as imperialistic terrorists the same as we accused Saddam and his Ilk of being. We are JUST AS BAD. Our government lied to start a war that would otherwise not have happened; they lied so that they could go over there and kill Iraqis for oil - How can you not see this?

            I am not defending terrorists, believe me I am not, but IF YOU ARE AN IRAQI THEN AMERICANS ARE THE TERRORISTS.

            Two sides to the issue. Two perspectives. Too bad almost every single American is so full of government dogma that they will never understand that we had NO RIGHT TO BE THERE AT ALL EVER FOR ANY REASON and that WE are the terrible ones.
      • CosmicJustice, on 04/22/2008, -3/+4Thank you for your service. Not many folks who who post here have your courage.
        • halobender, on 04/22/2008, -3/+4Or stupidity, bury me, but once you sign up with the military they own your ass. They can make you do anything regardless of how just it is. The only good thing about it seems to be that you can retire at 40.
          • speakinglish, on 04/23/2008, -1/+1halo, questions on my intelligence aside, how is this comment at all relevant to the conversation? I'm not going to bury you; you have a right to your opinion.
      • sodade, on 04/22/2008, -5/+6So you are saying that you are protecting us by killing the resistance? Why don't you warmakers get that the more people you kill, the more potential terrorists you create? Why is this so ***** hard to grok? I'd rather you be fighting them here than there because then we would be in the right and the whole ***** world would be on our side.
        • sodade, on 04/22/2008, -2/+2Yep - there they go again. Digg it down because you can't ***** answer the question.
        • PolishLogic, on 04/22/2008, -2/+4Tough to effectively fight a group who's best tactic is to kill you by killing themselves, too. Based on that tactic, I'd rather see them doing it over there, rather than in our farmer's markets, malls, restaurants. Then again, too each their own, I guess.

          Considering there's certainly a decent amount of people on Digg would love nothing more than to read about a rash of bombings at various malls in our country, just so they could throw out the same old tired "we totally deserve this, and a lot more of it" rhetoric.
          • 11oops, on 04/22/2008, -2/+1Although not literally, we are also killing ourselves to kill them. We have killed our freedoms, our economy, our national defenses, our morale, as well as 3,000+ of our troops.
        • sodade, on 04/22/2008, -3/+2Fighting a group whose best retaliatory tactic is suicide is like a grown man kicking the ***** out of a retarded kid. All it does is make you look dumber than a retard.
          If some Iraqis came to the US and bombed a bunch of malls - no question I would say we deserved it, but that is a world apart from wanting it to happen. In fact, I don't want it, or anything like it to happen. Not because I am afraid of getting blown up, but because I am afraid of the furthering of the police state in America.
        • speakinglish, on 04/23/2008, -0/+0sodade, I refuse to bury a single comment. I'm also out here to help people, not kill them. Believe it or not, there are people who don't enjoy living in fear of militiamen coming to their house and beheading their brothers and sons. Yes, we've made our mistakes. No, we shouldn't have started this war. But now that we're here, the worst thing we can do is leave suddenly.
      • K4ot1K, on 04/22/2008, -5/+1Once again, truth scares people. They would never go there themselves, let alone give something back to their "evil" country. But yet it is too nice here for them to move somewhere else. If you love your freedom to bash your government and your country, thank a soldier!
        • sodade, on 04/22/2008, -1/+2Name one instance since 1945 where the American military did something that makes Americans more free.
          • K4ot1K, on 04/22/2008, -2/+1Well, The Cold War. But with your way of thinking, why 1945? Did we make ourselves free in WWII? or in WWI? Weren't we already free during those? We were not under anyones control, so in that theory, we should have never gotten into those. As well as Korea, As prosperous as South Korea is, they would have done much better if they were under North Korea's rule, don't ya think? In fact with that line of thinking, anything we have done since the Revolutionary War has been useless, because it did not directly affect our "Freedom". Makes sense don't it?
          • 11oops, on 04/22/2008, -1/+2The Cold War? Is that you McCarthy? I don't recall any imminent threat of being overrun by communists.... And in WWII, if we allowed Germany to gain rule of Europe, and Japan to gain rule of the entire S. Pacific then it would have only been a matter of time before they came at us from both shores.
          • K4ot1K, on 04/22/2008, -1/+0Read the question again. During WWII we were still free. Our going in to Europe did not make us "more free". Waiting till Germany, and Japan attacked and attempted to take us over would have put us in the position to make us "more free". Japan attacked us, Muslim Exteremists attacked us. We had the same response both times. But according to sodade, we should not have attacked back either time. We were still free at both time periods. Neither attacking Japan, nor attacking Exteremists made us "more free". So in his line of argument, no military action we have taken since the Revolutionary War was justifed. Because none of them has directly made us "more free".
      • speakinglish, on 04/23/2008, -0/+0Wow, OK...I didn't mean that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11. I think we've all seen there's no evidence of that. What I DID mean was that Al Qaeda (and other groups, Jaysh Al Mahdi from the Shia side, for example) now has a larger recruiting base and a more or less lawless territory to operate from. If we left now, the place would become completely destabilized and would certainly be a haven for terrorists.
        • Noods, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1So in other words, we can never leave?
    • genericcynic, on 04/22/2008, -0/+0What, and miss the health benefits this research will bring?? :-)
    • xxTazxx, on 04/22/2008, -1/+1The Resistance is known, at least to the world media, as Terrorists.
      As they say, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
      This applies to women as well.
      • Noods, on 04/24/2008, -0/+1They aren't people. They are "insurgents". And as long as you remember that doublespeak, it doesn't matter how many you kill or how long you occupy their country.
    • PolishLogic, on 04/22/2008, -3/+2But, if we do that, what will you have to bitch about?

      Never mind, I'm sure you'll find something. Baby seal clubbing, perhaps? Or maybe attacking the rich because they make more money than you?
  • 360news, on 04/22/2008, -5/+9
    The intention of regenerating limbs is good, but what will be the (military) intention in 20 years time? This technology could potentially be used to create humans who have been specially modified for combat roles. An extra arm for weapons... extra eyes... more legs for speed...keep going and you start churning out clones armies.
    • ElAssoWipo, on 04/22/2008, -2/+5Robots will be a lot cheaper by then.

      And they've been testing the superhuman soldier idea for decades already. Previouslywith drugs. Now the main focus is on a exoskeleton.

      Here's a video of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkBEDy3eA1o
    • pianomahnn, on 04/22/2008, -1/+4I'd rather have a genetically modified, uh, thing get blown up in a worthless occupation than my best friend.
    • Tiphys, on 04/22/2008, -0/+9But should the possibility of abuse stop us from researching ways to help people? We Humans will pretty much make a weapon out of anything; but it shouldn't prevent us from improving our world.

      The idea of combat engineered Humans is pretty unnerving though.
      • hachijuhachi, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1The problem is that the all-too-powerful religious right sees the words "abortion" or "fetus" associated with anything, and they loose it. The amount of pull these people have in the American Politic is alarming. Not only are they reactionary and powerful, they have legions of followers who will do as they're told without consideration.

        With the stem cell issue, there are other ways to get stem cells, but the funding for the research will be denied as long as the ultra-conservatives hold as much power as they do. It doesn't matter that the research sould lead to unprecedented advances in medicine, and it doesn't matter that fetuses will be available no matter what, they don't want those fetuses to bring about any positive, because it will compromise their position, and it will cause some of their sheeple to leave the flock, at least on this issue.

        /Rant over.
    • Godlike, on 04/22/2008, -1/+3We are not going to have clone armies in your lifetime, imagination boy.
    • vanguardanon, on 04/22/2008, -0/+4Good point about the clone armies. If this keeps up we'll kill off the jedis.
    • InfidelAl, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3Everything is proceeding as I had forseen.
    • apophenic, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1We won't even have body parts growing back in twenty years, calm down. This isn't anything new, and it's nowhere close to being ready.
  • Frylocke, on 04/22/2008, -2/+11This has already been done. There is even a video out on the web that shows the process. A man lost the tip of his index finger in a model plane accident, and with the help of a powder (can't recall the specifics of the powder), it created a scaffold for the bone and tissue to grow on. The man got the tip of his finger back with full use. The same video also shows how organs can be printed with a standard inkjet printer using stem cells and a solution made from pig bladder. Oh, and the video is from 2003! Think about 5 more years of research on this technology.
  • whoreable, on 04/22/2008, -1/+14If it is good enough for Mr. Garrison, it is good enough for my troops.
    • davewashere, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3Let me just see how it feels in my hand
  • mydigga, on 04/22/2008, -2/+26Sorry, but we're in the business of blowing off body parts. Things like stem cell research are not condoned in this nation under God. Besides, it's not in the budget... WE NEED MORE TANKS! Those body parts aren't going to blow themselves off.
  • lucidguru, on 04/22/2008, -0/+14Step one... collect DNA sample for all soldiers... CHECK
    Step two... learn to regrow body parts from stem cells... CHECK
    Step three... clone massive armies and dominate the world...
    • OneLess, on 04/22/2008, -1/+1Hopefully they'll all look like Daniel Logan.
      • charlietuna, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1Oh gawd, I had to google deep to get that reference.
    • leerayIG88, on 04/22/2008, -1/+1Get to the CHOPPA! Now!!
    • eurynome420, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1Step four... ?????
      Step five.... The Age of Zombies Begins!!!!!!!
  • uberphildo, on 04/22/2008, -1/+3THE Pentagon? Like, for real?

    /sarcasm
    • jspegele, on 04/22/2008, -0/+2Well you wouldn't want just any old pentagon regenerating body parts, would you?
    • sukmydigg, on 04/22/2008, -1/+1Yeah, I had to include "THE" since it was "From the page," RIGHT?
  • chadu, on 04/22/2008, -8/+41Stem cell research is only OK if it allows for more bodies to be thrown in the way of gunfire and shrapnel. You want to learn how to grow kidneys, livers or lungs to help cancer victims and other types of illnesses that require transplants? Not in the USA... that's not God's way. It unnatural.
    • analogkid01, on 04/22/2008, -2/+6The irony is staggering.
      • xBlackDust, on 04/22/2008, -2/+4religion is one of the worst things that has came from man kind.
    • InfidelAl, on 04/22/2008, -1/+6I think you're confusing stem cells with embryonic stem cells.
      • andyd273, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3Don't digg him down, he's right.
        The process actually takes stem cells from the patient, with no baby body parts involved.
    • AndreiOttawa, on 04/22/2008, -2/+3Imagine what could have been accomplished by now if not for all the Christian ***** from the current administration
    • rxbudian, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1well...of course it's ok to go against god's will if it helps spread god's word....
  • diablo2032, on 04/22/2008, -0/+15hmm....maybe they can regrow hair
  • bootstrap, on 04/22/2008, -2/+2so..ahem are they going to use labrats to grow those bodyparts on? south park did it already
  • RaiderWolf, on 04/22/2008, -10/+2250 million dollars? Is that all?
    GIVE ME A ***** BREAK! Enough with the spending!
    • Myonosken, on 04/22/2008, -1/+6They spend that much on nukes in a day. You're a complete waste of human life if you don't think this is one of the best research areas to put money.
      • RaiderWolf, on 04/22/2008, -1/+1Ya, great idea. With this new technology, our US troops won't have to worry about getting wounded in the war once or twice. They can get wounded infinitely and suffer to no end. PERFECT! And if there's any hope that they'll ever see their families again, they can forget about that too. BRAVO!!
        /sarcasm
        • Aiae, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1Congratulations, you're a ***** idiot. You think the only implications for this medical tech are atavistic? You'll be eating your words in a decade when someone stabs you and this tech is used to regrow your organs.
  • Adambower836, on 04/22/2008, -19/+0human beings should not have the right to do this. this is messing with mother nature, and don't even let me get started on the religious implications of this. its just plain wrong.
    • CrackyJSquirrel, on 04/22/2008, -0/+6Those natural occurrences of IDEs ripping limbs from people have plagued us since the dawn of man.. STOP MESSING WITH NATURE DAMMIT!!
      • artfiend77, on 04/22/2008, -0/+2Leave NATURE ALONE!!! LEAVE IT ALONE!!!
    • ElAssoWipo, on 04/22/2008, -0/+2Mother nature made humans.
    • minorthreat, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3we dont' have the right? I believe a person has the right to do what they please, as long as they don't bother other people. You have the right to remain ignorant also, please exercise your right and stop bothering the rest of us.
    • 11oops, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3Religion? Whose religion ... mine or yours? Whose religion is correct? Who are you to tell me that your religion is better than mine, and therefore I have to adhere to the rules set forth in yours?
    • Lane, on 04/22/2008, -0/+4I totally agree, all those new fangled medications are just the devils work in disguise! Id rather be dead than alive and having been saved by some evil micro organism!!
      /s
    • BadBosco, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3yes i too am sickened by the thought of how the governmnet could possibly consider this method of saving lives, especially if it pisses off you and the others like you who only care about what YOU believe and not whats better for everyone.
  • finnmaccool, on 04/22/2008, -3/+0We can rebuild him....

    Loaded with irony.
    • rxbudian, on 04/22/2008, -0/+16 million dollar man without the 6 million dollar capability....
  • ChillHomie, on 04/22/2008, -2/+3One step closer to unlimited respawns.
    • ZenMojo, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3But only for the blue team. Now replace Gravel Pit with "anonymous third-world country sitting on oil" and that should keep everyone happy....
  • plizard, on 04/22/2008, -3/+22but but george bush said stem cell research is bad because it kills babies
    • InfidelAl, on 04/22/2008, -5/+7Again, confusing stem cell research with embryonic stem cell research.
      • anttanant, on 04/22/2008, -2/+1Doesn't matter. It contains the words "stem cell research". Your average Amurikkkan isn't going to care about those details now. They've been fed the meat powder. Just have to ring that bell to receive the appropriate response.
    • diablo2032, on 04/22/2008, -0/+5war kills babies too....
  • panzermeyer, on 04/22/2008, -3/+10But according to Bush and Company, this is killing babies and is immoral. Even though stem cell research can lead to cures for most of the leading diseases in the world (which would lead to saving lives of thousands if not millions of people) and regrow limbs for people in car accidents, industrial accidents...etc, it is immoral because it kills babies! /sarcasm (for those who don't get it)
    • ugmoe, on 04/22/2008, -1/+2You stupid monkey

      There are multiple sources of stem cells. Embryonic (the killing babies kind as you put it) is but one of them.

      /You are a stupid monkey (in case you didn't get it when I wrote it the first time)
      • defska42, on 04/22/2008, -0/+2This is true, but embryonic stem cells have been by far the easiest to obtain. I understand that we are working towards getting around that limitation now, but how many years too late is that? We are way too far behind the rest of the world in stem cell research because of idiots like W.
  • ElJif, on 04/22/2008, -1/+5Great...now there really won't be a way out for the troops.
    "But...but, I don't have an arm."
    "It's OK soldier! We'll grow you another one!"
    Too bad stem cells wont do jack for PTSD.
  • swrostmore, on 04/22/2008, -3/+10Hey guys you know what would be a lot simpler than using the national debt to fund limb regrowing research? ENDING THE ***** WAR.
    • SammyJr, on 04/22/2008, -1/+6Why can't we do both??
      • swrostmore, on 04/22/2008, -0/+2Because using the national debt to fund government programs is destroying the economy.
        • SammyJr, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3There's good debt like research, which ultimately grows the economy through new industry and products and bad debt, like tax cuts for billionaires and blowing up people overseas.
  • VegasJack, on 04/22/2008, -6/+1but what about the poor unborn embryos!? don't they have feelings too?
    • abuelos84, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1Sorry dude, this is digg, you HAVE to use the sarcasm tag, otherwise everyone will KNOW you are being serious, really...
  • kingUssop, on 04/22/2008, -0/+5This is great for people who have accidents and whatnot, but it's kind of sad to think the government is just interested so they can have more a more permanent kind of soldier. Hell I'm sure if they can grow back parts they'll be sending those guys back to war again as soon as they're ready.
    • SammyJr, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3Sadly, the only way to get science passed the dead-eyed Republican voters and their Chickenhawk elected officials is to give it a military use.
  • Jenadae, on 04/22/2008, -0/+4267 million? Really? What is that like 20 hrs in Iraq? >.> talk to me when we fund 267 billion...
  • Exhibitionist, on 04/22/2008, -0/+2"May be" is code for "we have no ***** idea if it will be, but who knows?" in newspaper speak.
  • gstep, on 04/22/2008, -0/+7"So if I put stem cells next to a Shakey's Pizza, I can get another Shakey's Pizza??"
    • MysticSavage, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1I hear that's how they build Starbucks.
  • SammyJr, on 04/22/2008, -1/+7Maybe I'll get my foreskin back in this life after all!
  • pettdog78, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1War contributions aside this technology actually would benefit many people all over the world. It's based on the concept of a salamander being able to regrow it's limbs when lost and so has a valid theory in nature. Scientists actually found that all mammals had the ability to regrow limbs, it's just that after birth we lost this ability where as salamanders manage to keep it. So the theory is sound, it will just take abit of time and money to figure out how to re-enable the genes that prompt regrowth. We could see people regrowing limbs with the help of science in five to ten years possibly. Very neat times...
  • BigManOnCampus, on 04/22/2008, -0/+4Too bad they can't apply this to the brainpower lost by sold-out politicians.
  • thewump, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3Well if they can regrow Mr Garrisons penis I guess anything's possible
  • atbnet, on 04/22/2008, -1/+4Scientist: Pres. Bush we are close to growing vital organs with stem cells to help all the people who need organ transplants, we just need your approval.
    Bush: No it is immoral, think about all the babies you are going to kill.
    Scientist: Well we can also grow back the limbs of soldiers so they don't have any excuse for another tour in Iraq.
    Bush: Mission Accomplished!
  • vornan19, on 04/22/2008, -2/+2Won't using stem cells piss off King George?
  • gyronic, on 04/22/2008, -2/+2Why not just Iraqis for spare parts?? Oh never mind they are brown, brown is not in fashion in the US!!
  • SabrinaHeaven, on 04/22/2008, -1/+2Modern plastic surgery was a direct result of WWI. This war, if we allow it to continue, may be the direct cause of our most advanced medical technologies. We need this death and dismemberment.
  • oboredone, on 04/22/2008, -0/+3First stem cells. Next fire coming out of your fingertips and wearing bunny masks.
  • hendrixlives64, on 04/22/2008, -5/+1BuT sTeM cEllS aRe WrOnG, aReN't ThEy???
  • kenrayd, on 04/22/2008, -0/+0What a lot of trouble when they can just wait until the resurrection when they not only can get all their parts back but they also will never get harmed again.
  • Joe11Blue, on 04/22/2008, -0/+0Only 250m USD!? What the heck, why spend money on repairing, and rebuilding already trained and experienced troops. Gee, I wonder what's worth more.... A fresh out of basic AIT Joe, or some combat experienced trooper.... Maybe this should have more funding Generals?
  • Pinhedd, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1Maybe they'll help bush grow some balls
  • elijahalcantara, on 04/22/2008, -2/+4I CAN HAS BODEH PARTS?
  • FecalHurler, on 04/22/2008, -1/+2Well at least the war is good for something.
    • zspade, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1it's better than the alternative of absolutely nothing, huh?
  • invisiblehat, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1This sounds like a decent premise for a horror film.
  • gametavern, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1stem cells can cure the world... just sprinkle them on your wounds for maximum healing!
  • PinkFloydFan, on 04/22/2008, -1/+1I think the REAL question at hand is whether or not they can be used to generate NEW body parts. Imagine the US soldier with four arms, two heads, and four feet. Twice the feet, twice the ass kicking.
  • JedicodeWarrior, on 04/22/2008, -0/+2Pity though, stem cell research has all but been beaten down by our commander-in-theif.
  • tuzziel, on 04/22/2008, -1/+1#1 research that needs funding is this,
    but even in this thread 80% people don't get it. If you can regrow organs you can pretty much eliminate most of the diseases.
    Lung, kidney cancer? Here goes your new kidney. etc.

    No wonder that gov people prefer other funding like those crazy new nuclear missile silos and such, stupidity prevails.
  • Shaman760, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1Oh NOW they want to let it be used. ***** them and the RIAA!
  • cronian, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1Great, so now losing a limb may not be enough to be taken out of combat. They can just grow you a new limb, and then stop-loss your ass back to Iraq.
  • sonaboy, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1Oh watch - NOW the neo-cons who have been crying about government funded stem cell research will now begin displaying their "patriotism" for THIS government funded research. Guaranteed. Nice flip flop.
  • earthceltic, on 04/22/2008, -1/+1Why does this feel like the end of Akira every time I hear about it? http://www.bbakira.co.uk/stills/tetsuo/tet43.jpg
  • Georgy, on 04/22/2008, -2/+1Nice to see digg has already put a negative spin on this even when the government is trying to do something beneficial for us.
  • ianconley, on 04/22/2008, -1/+1hahahahahaha. This is tantamount to the right saying "Our staying in Iraq is going to stop abortion!" Complete toying with emotions for the sake of a flailing, snake-oil based bio-tech industry.
    • Aiae, on 04/22/2008, -1/+0http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/142. Educate yourself before you run your ignorant ***** mouth. Regrowing body parts from your own stem cells is going to be a reality. This is not science fiction, it is science fact. You'll shut the ***** up in a decade. To all those ***** retards calling people "hypocrites" there's no ***** hypocrisy, there is a difference between "YOUR OWN STEM CELLS" WHICH IS EVEN IN THE SUMMARY OF THE ***** ARTICLE and embryonic stem cells. Jesus ***** Christ, learn to read.
      • ianconley, on 04/22/2008, -0/+1ohhh yeah! Just like hoverboards! Instead of pumping money into this fictitious science of vanity, why don't we focus on real issues? Stem cells aren't magic. Sorry. Wait, maybe you'd understand it better if i said " Stem cells ARENT ***** MAGIC, you HYPOCRITE ***** *****!" Douche.
  • Shadowgamers, on 04/22/2008, -1/+1Stem Cells? You mean that thing that America doesn't like? V:
  • Fetching more discussions...
    Show 51 - 61 of 61 discussions
  •  

    Login or register to add a comment

    Create a new account or login to join in the conversation on Digg. You'll also be able to Digg stories to help promote things you like.


© Digg Inc. 2008 — Content posted by Digg users is dedicated to the public domain.
DIGG, DIGG IT, DUGG, DIGG THIS, Digg graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts, and other service names are the trademarks of Digg Inc.