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[Wario64]

Picked this up from OA

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6727466/

 

[Lathentar]

Stem Cell from fat tissue... interesting.

 

[BojTrek]

How does this work... it is mind-boggling... if you actually let the stem-cells continue to grow in the area it is... would another skull formed or is it just bone?

Is it basically a replicator like in Star Trek...

So confused...

 

[Drexon]

Wooo! Gooooo stem cells! Oo-oo! Oo-oo! You can do it! You can do it! Give me a S, gi.. oh I give up.

 

[Slo]

Wait, if you can get stem cells from ordinary fat tissue, why in the hell is stem cell research such a controversial topic?

 

[jenov4]

Yeah this is great news, but what about the innocent fat cells that get's destroyed in the process? God did not want this! </sarcasm>

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Wait, if you can get stem cells from ordinary fat tissue, why in the hell is stem cell research such a controversial topic?

Just as not all people have the same skillset, neither do stem cells.

 

[Slo]

Just as not all people have the same skillset, neither do stem cells.

I need charts and graphs!

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

I need charts and graphs!

Ehhh, I got nothing here. But in layman's terms (which is as far as I could go) there are different types of stem cells which are good for various purposes by the body; able to become different sorts of other cells. The controversial embryonic ones, though, are like the purest and most flexible types, able to be coaxed to do anything you'd want a stem cell to do.

Here's a horrible analogy, since I love them. We might think of an embryonic stem cell as being the letter A, and able to be turned into any A word from Abracadabra to Alakazam. If you can get a stem cell that's already to the point of "Ac" that's not as useful, though you can still find things to do with it if you need Action, Accurate, or Acme. If you need Advil, though, you're screwed.

I've heard that there's some reason to believe some of the less controversial ones could be made to revert or be made more flexible than we know how to now, but for now they're not as useful.

 

[Drexon]

Here's a horrible analogy, since I love them. We might think of an embryonic stem cell as being the letter A, and able to be turned into any A word from Abracadabra to Alakazam. If you can get a stem cell that's already to the point of "Ac" that's not as useful, though you can still find things to do with it if you need Action, Accurate, or Acme. If you need Advil, though, you're screwed.

:lol :lol I laughed more irl to this than <insert web comic here>.

 

[automagnus]

The fat was taken from her ass.

ROFL

Butthead

 

[Lathentar]

The fat was taken from her ass.

Win win situation for sure.

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

I hope it can eventually help that girl that was born with half her skull missing recently.