actually, stem cell research has taken a new direction lately, in the fact that most researchers are concentrating on adult stem cells. So the stem cell would be taken from the patient, and then manipulated. So for example, there recently has been a patient that had cancer, they had to have their bladder removed, but the physicans, beleived they would be a good candidate for a trial of an experimetal treatment involving stem cells. anyway to make a long story short, they took to healthy adult stem cells from this patients bladder, and manipulated them to regrow a new bladder. this of course is the first successful treatment involving stem cells documented. And about fetial stem cells, well thats just not kosher in this country, with obtaining new stem cells, so because of this delema, the research have used the fetial stem cells to help identify and track down, adult stem cells, which will in the long run have lasting benifets to our health care system. So if they can regrow a bladder, then why regrow, or repair other organs, like eyes, or optic nerves, like I hinted in my first post. Oh and since the stem cells came from the patient that need them, there is no rejection.
I remember a year ago the PBS show Nova ran a piece on this very same doctor, and the patient that recieved the implants was very unhappy. This is becuase the implant it self is laid ontop of the optic nerve and trys to stimulate it with electrical pulses. The problem with this that most of the electrodes do no stimulate the nerve because of poor contact, also the electrodes need to run at different voltages for different people, so a patient may not be able even use the system, becuase depending on the success of the surgery, and the patients body they may require a high voltage, which has cause many sesures in many of his patients. There is a reason that this type of technology is banned in the USA, it is just unsafe. we're better of looking into actually implanting microchips into the optic nerve, it will have a better connection, because it won't be laying ontop of the brain, it would now be part of the brain. Anyway stem cell research will probably have a solution, long be for this technology is ever viable.
Now if we could get them to add a few computer related articles in their mag for a special issue on computer babes, and maybe include a copy of fedora core. I think alot more people would start using linux, you know sex sells
actually EXIT_FAILURE is a define for 1 in stdlib.h,
And depends on your compiler's warning level if it shouts at you for this.
but more to the point the K&R book use's return 1 in some examples.
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Don't worry the cost of medical software will more than make up for that. so put that gun down
actually, stem cell research has taken a new direction lately, in the fact that most researchers are concentrating on adult stem cells. So the stem cell would be taken from the patient, and then manipulated. So for example, there recently has been a patient that had cancer, they had to have their bladder removed, but the physicans, beleived they would be a good candidate for a trial of an experimetal treatment involving stem cells. anyway to make a long story short, they took to healthy adult stem cells from this patients bladder, and manipulated them to regrow a new bladder. this of course is the first successful treatment involving stem cells documented. And about fetial stem cells, well thats just not kosher in this country, with obtaining new stem cells, so because of this delema, the research have used the fetial stem cells to help identify and track down, adult stem cells, which will in the long run have lasting benifets to our health care system. So if they can regrow a bladder, then why regrow, or repair other organs, like eyes, or optic nerves, like I hinted in my first post. Oh and since the stem cells came from the patient that need them, there is no rejection.
I remember a year ago the PBS show Nova ran a piece on this very same doctor, and the patient that recieved the implants was very unhappy. This is becuase the implant it self is laid ontop of the optic nerve and trys to stimulate it with electrical pulses. The problem with this that most of the electrodes do no stimulate the nerve because of poor contact, also the electrodes need to run at different voltages for different people, so a patient may not be able even use the system, becuase depending on the success of the surgery, and the patients body they may require a high voltage, which has cause many sesures in many of his patients. There is a reason that this type of technology is banned in the USA, it is just unsafe. we're better of looking into actually implanting microchips into the optic nerve, it will have a better connection, because it won't be laying ontop of the brain, it would now be part of the brain. Anyway stem cell research will probably have a solution, long be for this technology is ever viable.
Now if we could get them to add a few computer related articles in their mag for a special issue on computer babes, and maybe include a copy of fedora core. I think alot more people would start using linux, you know sex sells
actually EXIT_FAILURE is a define for 1 in stdlib.h, And depends on your compiler's warning level if it shouts at you for this. but more to the point the K&R book use's return 1 in some examples.