[sourcery]

FYI

[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.

[maximus@Nashville]

Can "natural" breast implants be far behind?

[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.

[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).

[Billthedrill]

"Without a functioning immune system you get a disease called death,"he said.

Aw, death isn't a disease, it's only a side effect.

[vikingchick]

Well, they won't be needing us anymore. :)

[RightWhale]

Some interesting responses on this thread. There was a collection of short stories a while back about what immortality might be like. One thing for sure, babies won't be needed for a long time, though it's hard to imagine spending the next few trillion years with these same 6 billion people even if we can remain roughly 20 years old.