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Paralyzed Woman Walks Again
mgv writes "It's been promised for years, but it's just become a reality. Stem cells taken from cord blood have enabled a paralysed woman in South Korea to walk again for the first time in 20 years. The details are on the Sydney Morning Herald Site which requires registration, but can also be seen on the World Peace Herald. Too late for Christopher Reeve, but not for the thousands of new injuries worldwide each year or the millions of paralysed people from other diseases in the world."
And her first words?
"I'd walk a mile for a Camel!"
Thanks, I'll be here all week. Try the veal.
Will the legs have a mind of their own since they're using stem cells?
But can they use stem cells to make my wife put out again?
Mundus vult decipi decipiatur ergo.
-Xaviera Hollander
How much better science is this than rubber tails for dolphins?!?
Sounds like good work to me.
Take out the trash, pick up around the house, make dinner, put the kids to bed, and she's all yours, dude.
Because now you have to grow the fetus into an embryo, kill it, and harvest the cord to get the cells. How is this better ?!?
Why can't we just get the stem cells from plants? Stems are abundant with them!
If he just coulda stayed seated on the horse, who knows...
God intends for the placenta and cord to be eaten by the mother after birth. Any other use is an abomination in the eyes of god.
It's simple really. You eat a placenta and you regain the ability to walk.
MikeAtIF*ckStuffedAnimalsDotCom
I for one welcome our walking undead overlords.
Also, no significant medical research will take place in the year 2005, because by ALL accounts no research done in 2005 has ever helped anyone, while lots of research done before 2005 has.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
Isn't that the project to port Half-Life 2 to the PS/3?
Wow, not only fixing paralysis but raising the dead too? Will the wonders of modern science never cease! Then again, I have seen enough zombie movies to know this can't turn out good in the end...
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Good thing for her hell's as fictional as those WMDs the monkeys are always insisting exist . . . .
:)
Hey fundies: mod me troll if you want, but with karma like mine it doesn't much matter. You can try to piss me off, but I'll probably laugh at you.
Only in a Slashdot fantasy can a Slackware install turn into several hours of sex . . . . .
I demand that we redefine pi as 3 according to 1 Kings 7:23:
1 Kings 7:23
Now he made the sea of cast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in circumference.
- "Uh, this is the sort of stem cells the Bush Administration supports, you ignorant dumbass." --- 25%
- "Well, yeah, but, Dumbya cut funding! And this is you: duh doo duh doo duh doo" --- 25%
- "Uh, Bush was the first to federally fund ANY stem cell research. And this is you: bibblebibblebibble pppbbbffffttttt!" --- 25%
And then the same people wonder why nothing works right anymore.
--- Ban humanity.
the opposite of christopher reeve?
that'd be christopher walken!
RIP
The comedy is in the people posting to correct me on point #1 but not on point #2.
Really? Next you'll be telling me that colour doesn't have a "u" in it ...
-- now where did I put that
But can they use stem cells to make my wife put out again?
I don't get it. I have no problem getting your wife to put out. All my friends say she is insatiable in bed.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
For some reason the only thing I can think of when I read "too often scientists will ask themselves "can I do this", instead of "should I do this?" is....
"Yeah, but John, if the Pirates of the caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists."
Not sure how that connects but well, there it is. Are the Pirates animatronic bodies using stem cells maybe?
Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
>> Who was the last non-christian president.
Bush. I can't think of a commandment he hasn't broken ten times over.
>> When were federal offices last closed on Kwanza?
Kwanza is a fake holiday invented in 1966. You might as well blame them for not being closed on your birthday.
>> Why were blue laws on Sunday?
Blue laws were never nation wide.
>> Our foriegn policy has continued to support Isreal (for no good reason)
No good reason? The jews were on that land about two thousand years before the terroris^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h muslims showed up. It's their land. Not supporting israel is supporting terrorism and land theft.
If we don't play God, who will?
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
"Half the country says abortion is murder; half does not."
A lot more than half, say "duh, I don't care about anything."
What, you mean prayer doesn't actually help the blind to see, the deaf to hear, or the paraplegic to walk again?
You mean the solutions to these problems are found in *science* and *medicine*, not in religious voodoo and mysticism? Incredible! God forbid!
Is Capitalism Good for the Poor?
Next you'll be telling me some messiah was brougth back from the dead...
Hell don't believe that crap..
But Bush didn't cut funding for stem cells! He merely threw up major obstacles to it! Sheesh!
"The U.S. Federal government is not providing tax relief to religious organizations, it has made them exempt from having to pay taxes."
Well that really shot his point down.
"Derp de derp."