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To: Coleus; neverdem; sionnsar
"Their ultimate goal is to be able to extract bone marrow from a patient and, while still in the operating room, filter the extract through a specially designed scaffold that preferentially grabs bone-forming stem cells and boosts their growth and survival. The cells can then be directly implanted into the patient."

DNA blueprint, cellular scaffolding, materials handling -- we're not organisms, we're structures.

2 posted on 03/08/2007 7:24:29 PM PST by NicknamedBob (I know where I have gone wrong, and I can cite it, chapter and verse.)
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bump & a ping


3 posted on 03/08/2007 7:37:05 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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