Our scientists grow human body part

Herald Sun ^ | 18jun02 | ROBYN RILEY

[sourcery]

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[Fish out of Water]

bttt

[LibWhacker]

Wow! Okay, hang in there everyone . . . Exercise, eat right, etc., etc., right now . . . Because you only have to make it a few more decades at most and I'm convinced mankind is going to discover the secret to immortality.

[freebilly]

Because you only have to make it a few more decades at most and I'm convinced mankind is going to discover the secret to immortality.

Hmmm..., seems to me that a carpenter from Nazareth already shared that secret with us....

[maximus@Nashville]

Can "natural" breast implants be far behind?

[strela]

Because you only have to make it a few more decades at most and I'm convinced mankind is going to discover the secret to immortality.

I hope I'm not around to see it. You can kiss your quality of life goodbye if it ever happens.

[sourcery]

Can "natural" breast implants be far behind?

And that's just one possibility...

I think it may be time to invest in a certain Australian biotech company!

[snag_matic]

Because you only have to make it a few more decades at most and I'm convinced mankind is going to discover the secret to immortality. I hope I'm not around to see it. You can kiss your quality of life goodbye if it ever happens.

Right, as soon as clinical immortality becomes a reality it will immeadeatly become a goverment entitlement. I can immagine the Demonrats campaign slogan for 2040. Lets increase taxes to 100% so no one will have to grow old and die, ever!

[r9etb]

I wouldn't go investing quite yet. They didn't grow a human body part, but a mouse body part.

Here's the rub: "The clinical trials indicate that the human thymus responds in the same way as a mouse, which is why we are confident this will translate very easily to humans," he said.

IOW, they're not there yet. This is a marketing release.

[LibWhacker]

Yup. But have you noticed how many good Christians go in for the quintuple bypass surgery just to squeeze five more years out of this travail? What's gonna happen when you offer 'em an extra 700, hmmm?

[FairWitness]

The Monash scientists put thymus stem cells into the kidney cavity of a mouse.

Does this mean stem cells extracted from the thymus? Or, embryonic stem cells stimulated to be thymus cells. As it reads, it seems to be the former. The answer is critical to the argument over growing embryos to get stem cells (wrong way as far as I am concerned).

[strela]

Don't worry, it will come with a perpetual welfare plan.

It won't be me writing the check for the sales cost.

[FairWitness]

Attempting to answer my own question (embryonic versus organ stem cells?) I did a quick scan of Nature - Immunology (Professor Boyd said the international science journal Nature Immunology would publish details of the research today.). I don't see anything related on their website yet.

[LibWhacker]

You can kiss your quality of life goodbye if it ever happens.

Hey, if we can grow a thymus, we can grow a hamburger. :-)