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Fetuses Provide Stem-Like Cells to Mothers

Flatline5150 writes "Excerpt from this article on Boston.com: 'Many a pregnant woman has moments when her fetus seems like a little parasite, all take, take, take. But new research suggests that a fetus may also be giving back a lifelong gift: cells that appear to act like stem cells, migrating to diseased organs in the mother and trying to fix them.'"

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  1. Re:Exciting by shaitand · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Who's a nut?"

    Anyone who believes religious fairy tales? The possibility that everything was created by a magicman in the sky can't be proven or disproven in itself. But pretty much all of the fables which form the basis for religion can and have been.

    Or do you not find there to be a problem with following a religion which adapted almost all of it's basic principles from Ancient Egypt, including the parting of the red sea, and the idea of a savior who died and was reborn to bring man the chance of eternal life.

    Or that claims that god stopped the sun (gee those people must have believed the sun revolved around the earth, odd that, maybe we've forgotten why certain people were burned as heretics when they discovered otherwise).

    And worse of all, a religion which actually teaches that you cannot question it and that the greatest and first sin was gaining KNOWLEDGE.

    The entire religion is designed to teach people to be cattle, going as far as calling the followers sheep to be led by the shepard. And the worse part is the idiots go along with it happily.