Ahh but the stem cell stuff has all just gone crazy mad.....because the Japanese have worked out a way of reverting skin cells into stem cells.
There is a video on TED about it I watched.
Apprently they reverted some skin cells, the stripped a mouse heart down to all but cartalidge, sprayed it with a coating of these new stems cells a few days later the heart started spontaneously beating. God will be pleased because no one muderized a baby in the whole process. They did though kill a mouse.
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Sat 7 Mar 2009, 5:23,
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There is a video on TED about it I watched.
Apprently they reverted some skin cells, the stripped a mouse heart down to all but cartalidge, sprayed it with a coating of these new stems cells a few days later the heart started spontaneously beating. God will be pleased because no one muderized a baby in the whole process. They did though kill a mouse.
Ear-mouse freaks the shit out of them more.Plastic nature of our biology is the key point that breaks their notional view of the universe.
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Sat 7 Mar 2009, 5:28,
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