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Scientists Grow Human Thymus From Stem Cells

Posted by timothy on Monday June 17, 2002 @07:37AM from the vote-for-the-next-organ-to-grow dept.

knight_23 writes: "The Herald Sun reports that Australian researchers have grown a functioning thymus from stem cells. The thymus is a small organ that is critical to the immune system. Human trials could begin within two years."

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You fools! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-06-17 07:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Man was never meant to have a first post!
Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · 2002-06-17 07:39 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I hate the post limit things and fucking dumb mods
I agree, sir!
Not first post by Anonymous Coward · 2002-06-17 07:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Mozilla is STILL FUCKING SLOW! Even with a overclocked AMD Athalon 2300+ XP with 4GB RAM IT STILL TOOK 5 minutes to render the comments page! Well it looks like its back to NCSA mosiac for me.
Re:20 second rule, I damn thee! by TweeKinDaBahx · 2002-06-17 07:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

YOU DARE SPEAK OF CLIT AS AN AC?

You will die a thousand deaths by way of tubgirl

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Re:MOD THIS UP -- INTERESTING INFO by TweeKinDaBahx · 2002-06-17 07:53 · Score: 0, Offtopic

this crack.

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