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A quality sword requires toughness on the inside and hardness on the outside. That way it can keep a sharp edge yet bend instead of shatter. Getting these properties requires blanking the metal back to a virgin state, adding the right molecular alloying ingredients, and then controlling the rate of the natural processes that occur as its final structure crystallizes out. Using that general method, researchers have just succeeded in returning adult somatic (body) cells to a virgin stem cell state which can then be made into nearly any tissue.
“What’s exciting about this approach is that we can actually correct a defective gene in a living adult animal,” study leader Daniel Anderson said in a statement.
originally posted by: junglimogli
a reply to: andy06shake
This is awesome .. now if only they can figure out how to grow new teeth in adults .. the dentists really do suck!
Stem Cell Research is one of the medical advances that should be given full unrestricted funding ..
originally posted by: Chrisfishenstein
originally posted by: junglimogli
a reply to: andy06shake
This is awesome .. now if only they can figure out how to grow new teeth in adults .. the dentists really do suck!
Stem Cell Research is one of the medical advances that should be given full unrestricted funding ..
I am completely on the other side of the fence here! Playing god will not turn out well for us! We have no clue how to create things like this out of thin air, we just assume everything will turn out fine and it won't! God's work is for him and him alone! We can find cures to things with our technology without having to do this kind of thing. People/Scientists just seem more interested in cloning and stem cell research rather than using the things God put here for us to find cures to anything and everything! We seem, as a species, to try and find the easiest way out of everything.
An alternative method for creating stem cells was recently presented which used acid and mechanical persuasion to beat normal cells back into the pluripotent form. This method has been difficult to replicate, and as a result of the controversy surrounding the affair the study has been retracted. That’s not to say that this shortcut is off the table though. Researchers continue to look for better ways to produce stem cells with more creative power, from cells that are ever further set in their ways. The new studies reported here were able to use dermal fibroblasts, essentially skin cells, from both a 35-year-old and 75-year-old man. Previously skin cells have been turned into other kinds of cells, particularly neurons. Now they can become any kind of cell.
originally posted by: InTheLight
One would think the funding would be flowing like a tsunami just for the 'fountain of youth' uses alone.
originally posted by: shaneslaughta
originally posted by: InTheLight
One would think the funding would be flowing like a tsunami just for the 'fountain of youth' uses alone.
What and cut in to the medical industry's multi-billion dollar a year profit margin....NO WAY!
If there is anything to this, humankind wont see any benefit from it.
Heal everyone and there is no profit to be had.
originally posted by: InTheLight
originally posted by: Chrisfishenstein
originally posted by: junglimogli
a reply to: andy06shake
This is awesome .. now if only they can figure out how to grow new teeth in adults .. the dentists really do suck!
Stem Cell Research is one of the medical advances that should be given full unrestricted funding ..
I am completely on the other side of the fence here! Playing god will not turn out well for us! We have no clue how to create things like this out of thin air, we just assume everything will turn out fine and it won't! God's work is for him and him alone! We can find cures to things with our technology without having to do this kind of thing. People/Scientists just seem more interested in cloning and stem cell research rather than using the things God put here for us to find cures to anything and everything! We seem, as a species, to try and find the easiest way out of everything.
I absolutely agree about the growing teeth/dentist comment.
From the documentary I viewed, they still have a very long road ahead of them, but this research may usher in a future free of incurable diseases and DNA generational mutations, as well as reverting back to a younger state of physical being. One would think the funding would be flowing like a tsunami just for the 'fountain of youth' uses alone.
As for searching for cures using the things God put here for us, why dismiss unlocking the knowledge of using stem cells as something God did not put here?
originally posted by: Chrisfishenstein
originally posted by: junglimogli
a reply to: andy06shake
This is awesome .. now if only they can figure out how to grow new teeth in adults .. the dentists really do suck!
Stem Cell Research is one of the medical advances that should be given full unrestricted funding ..
I am completely on the other side of the fence here! Playing god will not turn out well for us! We have no clue how to create things like this out of thin air, we just assume everything will turn out fine and it won't! God's work is for him and him alone! We can find cures to things with our technology without having to do this kind of thing. People/Scientists just seem more interested in cloning and stem cell research rather than using the things God put here for us to find cures to anything and everything! We seem, as a species, to try and find the easiest way out of everything.