Posted by
michael
on from the if-only-it-were-that-easy dept.
roman_mir writes "Wired reports that a 16 year old teenager had a hole in his heart (a nail gun accident,) which was repaired by injecting stem cells directly into his heart. What is interesting is that the stem cells were taken from the boy's own blood."
Tsarkon wonders
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Anonymous Coward
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Could we use these same stem cells to fill the hole in Rob Malda's head?
Bush is going to use this to ban all cloning
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arvindn
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The procedure is experimental, and a lot more research needs to be done before the efficacy of the method can be reliably ascertained. The article lists a number of caveats (see page 2). However, chances are that Bush and his religious right cronies are going to use this to claim that embryonic stem cells are no longer necessary and use it to ban all cloning.
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Could we use these same stem cells to fill the hole in Rob Malda's head?
The procedure is experimental, and a lot more research needs to be done before the efficacy of the method can be reliably ascertained. The article lists a number of caveats (see page 2). However, chances are that Bush and his religious right cronies are going to use this to claim that embryonic stem cells are no longer necessary and use it to ban all cloning.