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- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Actually, one of the most ineteresting development in stem cell research is the possibility of taking your own stem cells when you're just born, and then you can use those stem cells later in life.
- chubbymidget, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7What does it do while waiting for the new heart to generate?
You give lungs now, gills come in next week. /end obscure Futurama quote. - kevinmotel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Zoidberg: "Come on, lighten up. What is this? A funeral?"
Doctor 1: "Heart"
Zoidberg: "Take! I got four of them."
Doctor 2: "Stomach content: One deviled egg."
Zoidberg: "Deviled egg?" *sclurps*
Doctor 2: "The same deviled egg." - quentinp, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9So can I be a timelord yet?
- CongoJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Very cool.
How long before we completely understand the workings of our cells and biology? - radu79, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Zebra fish are amazing!
I had one, who started to develop an wound in the middle. It got bigger and bigger, to the point the poor fish was all curled and couldn't even swim properly. I was expecting it to die every day.
Then, it stayed liek that for a week or so, and it started to get better! Now, 4 months after, it just has a small scar, where it had a huge wound, and it's back to his original size, and you couldn't even tell he was sick. - ubuwalker31, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As someone who just started taking cholesterol lowering meds and low dose asprin to prevent heart attacks, I hope that this treatment will become a reality! Too many people succumb to this lethal killer.
- APHughes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was actually born with a hole in my heart but it grew back, so needless to say I'm sure it is possible.
- growler1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ubuwalker
Well said. This piece just goes to show why we should respect and give incentives to competent scientists and let them do what they do best: science.
Heart disease is the number one killer of males over 40. What a world this would be if we could somehow change that. - Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1When we have the processing power to effectively model the countless reactions that take place in the human body every second - we've got a long way to go yet. In terms of protein folding and neural networks, there are huge gape in our knowledge of the human body.
- pln2bz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1One of these days, the American public will come to the embarrassing realization that Robert Becker for the most part figured out how to dedifferentiate stem cells back in the 60's and 70's. He published his results in 1985 in the book called "The Body Electric - Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life", but he was completely ignored. The problem is that science has become too specialized. The body's healing system is controlled by electrical currents and fields, but our medical practitioners are never taught anything about electricity.
The same identical problem is happening in physics right now with astronomy. Our astronomers believe that the world is ruled by gravity and chemistry when in fact electricity is the dominant force in the universe. NASA knows for instance that comets are not icy snowballs anymore. They know that the coma and tail of the comet are electric in nature because they can see x-rays coming off of the comet. They also know that the comets do not light up until they come close to the sun. Any reasonably educated person at this point would conclude that the sun is generating an electric field, which is causing the comet to light up. And the next step, which NASA refuses to take, is to conclude that the sun is an electric phenomenon. Plasma cosmologists can explain this process in very fine detail, but big bang astronomers can't even explain how the sun's surface temperature is 6000 K whereas the corona is 2 million K. How does the energy get to the outside from the inside? It doesn't. The sun is being powered externally.
In the same way, Robert Becker found that humans probably retain enough similarities with salamanders to actually regenerate limbs. Did you know that bone is an LED? It will light up if you pass current through it. Did you know that if a child's finger is cut off past the last knuckle that it will completely regenerate as if nothing happened so long as the doctor does not ***** with it too much? We have regenerative capabilities and they're controlled with electricity. Read the book. - shitthisfook, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yep, I can't wait till the day when I can eat a diet consisting of nothing but junk food and not have to worry about dropping dead.
- JackCroww, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You are a moron. Please don't reproduce.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Oh my God, it's the Anti-Colbert!!!
- shibumila, on 10/12/2007, -14/+7Wait... You mean this doesn't require embryonic stem cells? But I thought that was the panacea? If this technology doesn't require the destruction of embryos... I'm not interested.
- shibumila, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3Great! This would be called Stem Cell Research, fully funded by the US Government Currently. Again... If it doesn't harm a embryo.. I'm not interested. Look.. I'm a democrat. I don't care if it actually helps people... I need issues to support my causes, in this case, making the destruction of embryos palatable to the general population. If news like this leaks out, it's not going to bode well. Embryonic Stem Cell has to be the only solution. Digg down this story.
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