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Scientists Turn Skin Into Blood
Breakthru writes "In an important breakthrough, scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from adult human skin. The discovery, published in the prestigious science journal Nature today, could mean that in the foreseeable future people needing blood for surgery, cancer treatment or treatment of other blood conditions like anemia will be able to have blood created from a patch of their own skin to provide transfusions. Clinical trials could begin as soon as 2012."
I think the idea is, you take someone _else's_ skin.
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I subscribe to the theory that Stephen Hawking eludes to; If there really is a supreme being, he only input it had into creating the universe was to create Gravity, Electromagnetism, and the Weak and Strong Nuclear Force. The rest sort of took care of itself.
Some of the worst atrocities conducted by humanity have been done in $deity's name, yet all combined they'd still number less than the total losses from the situations you described above. I wouldn't be surprised if that wasn't some form of irony on his part.
Either way, this is off topic.
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