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Old Stems Cells Young Again — Via Vampirism

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the ecstatic-twilight-fans dept.

pdragon04 writes to tell us that in recent tests a Howard Hughes Medical Institute team has found that through exposure to "young" blood cells, bone marrow stem cells start to act young again as well. "The researchers have not yet isolated the blood-borne factors that can switch old stem cells back to a more youthful state, but their results are consistent with other recent studies that show stem-cell aging may be reversible. Together those results suggest that it might one day be possible to boost the practical lifespan of stem cells, and thereby increase the body’s resistance to disease and age-related degeneration."

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  1. But can you walk out in sunlight afterwards? by gestalt_n_pepper · · Score: 4, Funny

    And do you respect yourself in the morning, um, er evening? Whenever....

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  2. Let me get this straight... by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll live forever if I eat babies?

    1. Re:Let me get this straight... by Jabrwock · · Score: 2, Funny

      My god, South Park/Christopher Reeves was right!

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    2. Re:Let me get this straight... by KarrdeSW · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'll live forever if I eat babies?

      Are you sure you want to be that young? I'll stick to eating 18-year-old blond women.

      If this line of reasoning continues it's only going to get creepier.

    3. Re:Let me get this straight... by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'll live forever if I eat babies?

      That's how Dick Cheney does it.

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    4. Re:Let me get this straight... by operagost · · Score: 2, Funny

      Damn. *puts the fava beans and chianti away*

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    5. Re:Let me get this straight... by macraig · · Score: 1, Funny

      So Jeffrey Dahmer was really in the forefront of anti-aging research, then?

    6. Re:Let me get this straight... by macraig · · Score: 2, Funny

      You mean like:

      So Jeffrey Dahmer was really in the forefront of anti-aging research, then?

    7. Re:Let me get this straight... by Arancaytar · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't forget to bathe in the blood of virgins regularly.

    8. Re:Let me get this straight... by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

      through exposure to "young" blood cells, bone marrow stem cells start to act young again as well

      How do you think Demi Moore managed to keep it together so long?

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    9. Re:Let me get this straight... by 2obvious4u · · Score: 2, Funny

      Gee, I was thinking Michael Jackson....


      to soon?

    10. Re:Let me get this straight... by Requiem18th · · Score: 4, Funny

      He discovered it accidentally back when he was busy funding the Mongol Empire.

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  3. Side effects include: by gad_zuki! · · Score: 3, Funny

    Side effects include:

    Wearing pasty white makeup
    Being especially emo and whiney
    Changing username to MrsCullen4Ever3
    Wearing black nail polish
    and hanging out with shirtless underage guys.

  4. Meh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'll stay young the old-fashioned way: eat sensibly, exercise, and suck the life force from teenage virgins.

    1. Re:Meh by smellsofbikes · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'll stay young the old-fashioned way: eat sensibly, exercise, and suck the life force from teenage virgins.

      no offense but I'm going to try exactly the opposite: eat outrageously, slack, and get teenage virgins to suck the life force out of me.

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