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Grow Your Own Heart Valves
jcr writes "Medical researchers in Britain have succeeded in growing a heart valve from adult stem cells taken from bone marrow. The research is being reported in the journal of the Royal Society today. Growing a heart value from your own cells means that tissue rejection isn't an issue."
With the fundies in charge and the technologists in the back pocket of the government, the growth of heart valves from adult stem cells will be prohibited in some obscure provision tucked into who knows what sort of must-pass spending bill...
[humor mode on] :)
Of course the British are working on doing this in labs. They lost all their colonies. But we don't need this stuff; this kind of thing is what Puerto Rico is for
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Told you we shouldn't kill babies. It was a short-sighted 'solution.'
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
How the devil does equating using a single cell to clone an organ to slavery NOT count as trolling?
No, you're making it more complicated than you need to: a human life, personhood if you will, begins at conception. And yes, if you discard nine embryos, you are murdering them. Perhaps that makes you upset, or maybe you don't care. You have to decide for yourself what you believe.