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Scientists Grow Blood Vessels Using Skin Cells
rubberbando writes "The new york times is running a story about how scientists have discovered a way to grow new blood vessels using skin cells. Since the blood vessels are grown using the patient's own skin cells, there isn't any chance for rejection. This looks to be quite a boon for people who have several damaged blood vessels from diseases such as diabetes. Perhaps one day they will be able to apply this technology/technique to creating other parts of the body and rid us of the whole stem cell controversy. Only time will tell."
... and rid us of the whole stem cell controversy.
People are looking at alternatives to stem cell research as a way of bowing out of the controversy. It sounds like the easy way out. Myself, I refuse to run from this controversy. I won't be happy until my medical treatment involves the palliative removal and ceremonial use of a live baby's beating heart.
Fsck this strategy of avoiding controversy. Let's meet it head on and start welding pig parts onto the backs of live infants. I want porn stars with four breasts. I want 25' tall rabbits. I want green-glow-in-the-dark monkeys that we kill to harvest their human implanted organs. Bring on the cows with Kangaroo legs and chicken wings (yum!). Where are my goddamn flying monkeys? People, people, let's not shy away from the freak show.
Sort of like "the island" where they grow people as insurence and harvest the organs as necessary. You want to go to the island.