Growing Nerve Cells

Science Central ^ | 03.16.06

[Coleus]

Embryonic stem cells have been shown to be very useful, but many object to their use on ethical grounds. >>

that is NOT true,  embryonic stem cells: have never successfully cured a person, have been rejected by patients just as they do when receiving a donor organ and have also killed people by growing teratomas (tumors), they grow uncontrollably like cancer cells,   read on for the truth on how adult/non-embryonic  stem cells have helped people:

Spinal Cord Patient Speaks out: Embryonic stem cell helps patents not patients

Canadian tries Russian stem cell treatment

Adult Stem Cell Research Treats Spinal Cord Injury Patient

REGENERATING HOPE FOR A PARALYSIS CURE (macrophages are injected into the spinal cord)

Doctors in Russia Prove that Non-Embryonic Stem Cells can be Used in Treating Spinal Cord Injuries

Adult stem cells work there is NO need to harvest babies for their body parts.

Benefits of Stem Cells to Human Patients - Do No Harm 

[el_texicano]

I was almost hoping this meant there's hope for some spineless Republicans congress critters...

[Rudder]

"We injected these hair follicle stem cells into the area where the nerve or the spinal cord is severed… [and] found that the nerve or spinal cord could be regenerated because we injected these hair follicle stem cells,"

Since hair follicle cells and neurons are from the same anlage (ectoderm) and since hair follicle cells are continously regenerating, this finding makes good logical sense.

[King Prout]

biotech

[PatrickHenry]

Thanks. I'll leave this one to AntiGuv to ping. Maybe it's for Junior's archives.

[King Prout]

ok.

an irreverent aside: wouldn't be at all pleasant to develop male-pattern-baldness of the brain after treatment with hair-to-neuron stem cells :)

[Pharmer]

Professional bump...will comment on later

[PatrickHenry]

That's a kink to be worked out.

[King Prout]

yeah... it'd be a pity for a restored brain to go all nappy-time prematurely

[PatrickHenry]

I'm waving goodbye now.

[King Prout]

awww... I'm crestfallen! Just when I was getting a lock on this particular style of jest, you brush me off! And I was really getting the hank of it, too.

Ah, well... the mane thing is for the researchers to trim that possibility out of the genetics.

[tallhappy]

Since hair follicle cells and neurons are from the same anlage (ectoderm) and since hair follicle cells are continously regenerating, this finding makes good logical sense.

I'd agree with you. The authors, though, claim the cells are pluripotent.

[piytar]

So hair stem cells and brain stem cells are related? Hmmm, maybe now we understand blondes better! /joke, please don't slap me!!!

[PatrickHenry]

It's no fur, pelting me with so many puns all at once. It makes me bristle with anger.

[From many - one.]

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[AntiGuv]

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Off Beachcombing?

[Larry Lucido]

My cat would love one of those.

[King Prout]

I'm not blonde, so I'm nodding in agreement ;)