Gene plays key role in embryonic, adult stem cells

[L Gilbert]

I don't care what those self-righteous anuses think or say, I think this stuff is a great boon to humans and other critters:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scie...src=041907_1905_ARTICLE_PROMO_also_on_reuters

 

[eh1eh]

Humans are going down a path where control of everything will be nessessary. We alter our environment so much, we will need to 'evolve' ourselves to adapt to the changes we are making.

P.S. I don't care what those anuses say either.

 

[Tonington]

Did anyone catch this this week? Lesbian couples could have their own babies.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6547675.stm

 

[lysyfacet]

i should have taken "biology" in school...i don't understand half the stuff in that article lol. o well.

 

[lysyfacet]

Did anyone catch this this week? Lesbian couples could have their own babies.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6547675.stm

talk about creepy :-|

 

[karrie]

Did anyone catch this this week? Lesbian couples could have their own babies.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6547675.stm

The article says something to the effect of 'the new law may be a stumbling block'. I gotta say, I'd have written that law up too once I heard about this! Stumble away! How terrifying to think of lab grown sex cells being used to create embryos which could have any of a host of problematic outcomes. What a heart break it would be for families thinking that it was their key to a child of their own genetic material.

By all means, prove a law isn't needed, but until it's proven through lab tests and studies, I'm glad someone's stepping in to say it can't be used yet.

It's so neat that science is taking research to such bizarre new heights.

 

[Tonington]

Mmm, well many of these stem cell studies are quite a ways off yet from any proven results. I don't know that all that many have even made it to human trials yet

 

[L Gilbert]

Did anyone catch this this week? Lesbian couples could have their own babies.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6547675.stm

Nifty.

Brits are odd critters. Why'd they be uptight about this? Hey, Hermie!! Can you hesplain dis?

 

[L Gilbert]

It's so neat that science is taking research to such bizarre new heights.

lol.
I kinda thought that was science's realm - the bizarre.

 

[karrie]

Mmm, well many of these stem cell studies are quite a ways off yet from any proven results. I don't know that all that many have even made it to human trials yet

A lot of these really exciting ideas seem to fizzle away anyhow. Like the 2004 buzz around being able to get eggs to divide without fertilization. Everyone was so excited because it seemed like the perfect solution to the human rights issues surrounding use of embryos for stem cells... and then we never heard anything more!

 

[hermanntrude]

Nifty.

Brits are odd critters. Why'd they be uptight about this? Hey, Hermie!! Can you hesplain dis?

what do u want explaining? why brits are up-tight?

LOL why are canadians goatee-sporting and cold?

why do french people smell of garlic?