Cells From Liposuction Function As Stem Cells?

texchanchan writes "Plastic surgeon Peter Fodor MD filtered stem cells out of fat sucked from people's oversized body parts, then cultured them into 'bone, cartilage, skeletal muscle and nerve cells.' At the rate of 10,000 stem cells per cm³ that's a lot of stem cells. Combine that with this and you might be on the road to regeneration. And, you can have your stem cells banked for later disasters after your liposuction."

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Re:Fight Club

[ehiris]

lol

Re:Cool!

[FFFish]

Yes, because 7-11 is so often closed.

OT: your name...

[vena]

reference to the prick song of the same name?

god i love that album :)

President Bush Smart On Stem Cells?

[toupsie]

Wow! Its starting to look like President Bush is really hornswoggling the Democrats and his critics. Every time they say he is stupid for a policy, a couple of months later we find out the President is right. During President Bush's speech on cloning months ago, he specifically mentioned stem cells developed from adult cells were right around the corner. This way, we would not be harvesting fetuses so old, rich folks can live longer (kind of a sick idea if you think about it). Every "intellectual" on the planet was calling him a backward religious nut for his stance on fetal stem cells. Now he looks like a forward thinking individual with more evidence that hoovering fetuses for their stem cells is not necessary.

As a Texan, I am sure he understands how to play Possum and he seems to be playing it very well with the Democrats. Guess the cloning issue is moot now with more evidence that adult stem cells do the same as aborted fetus cells. It might be a good idea for his political opposition to drop the "Bush is a Stupid Idiot" line of attack because if he is an idiot and he beats them at every punch, what can you say about them?

Oh wait, this isn't a political site. Never mind! :)

Re:Of course it's illegal

[Unknown Poltroon]

"The South was on the wrong side of that particular war."

Ie, the losing side, so we can rewrite the history.

"Owning other human beings, locking them up, and violently forcing them to perform hard labor (slavery) is wrong."

It wasnt about slavery for the most part. Lincon was willing let them have slavery if he could preserver the uninon.(I may be wrong about this one) By the way, how do you differentiate between income tax and slavery? You mean youve managed to get out of having them take a large portion of you labor results for their own uses? Obviously its only worng in certain cases.

"Hatred of an entire race of people simply because of the color of their skin is also wrong."

Agreed.

ANd before you start in on me, im a "damned yankee" from Conneciticut, and just enjoy being difficult. ;)

Re:Of course it's illegal

[Drachemorder]

Well, I'm a redneck from Mississippi, and I agree with the "damned yankee from Connecticut" ;)

Slavery was wrong. The Southern states seceded because of the way they were being treated over the slavery issue. However, the war itself was fought over their right to secede from the Union. This is a fine distinction, to be sure, but I find it to be a valid one. I believe that slavery was wrong (and so do most other reasonable people), but I also believe that secession is not unconstitutional. I have to side with the Confederacy on that point.

The results of the Civil War included the abolition of slavery, which was a good outcome. However, that outcome had a dreadful expense, both in human life and the nature of the American republic. Most people will say that outcome was worth the cost; I would say that history has yet to answer the question.