Breakthrough In Stem Cell Culturing

Science Daily reports that for the first time, human embryonic stem cells have been cultured under chemically controlled conditions without the use of animal substances, which is essential for future clinical uses. "Now, for the first time, we can produce large quantities of human embryonic stem cells in an environment that is completely chemically defined," says professor Karl Tryggvason, who led the study at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet. "This opens up new opportunities for developing different types of cells which can then be tested for the treatment of disease."

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Re:Advances

[Ethanol-fueled]

That is true. As a bonus, we get instant gratification from being able to play god, constructing life forms as if we were playing with Legos.

Space travel sounded fun when we were young, but it's just not that exciting. So we get a couple rovers on Mars -- but for what? To look at dust and rocks all day long? *Yawn*

Additionally, let's all give Stonelion the glad hand. I am a professional troll, Stoneyboy, but I like you. Hell, you and Pudge can come over to my house and fuck my sister!

8 Years Too Late

[Doc Ruby]

Obama lifted Bush's 2001 ban in 2009. If embryonic stem cell research hadn't been banned by Republicans pandering to theocrats and drug corps for so long, this technique that finally unleashes stem cells for therapies might have been developed 8 years earlier.

Maybe my paraplegic college buddy who starved himself a year ago instead of continuing life in a wheelchair with chronic pain and steadily failing organs might have at least had real evidence for hope. Bush killed him, and who knows how many other people.