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Canada stem cell news

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Canada stem cell news

Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:18 am
by jimmylegs
stem cells made from human skin

report in english...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadi ... 6uJKg4YFiw

in journalspeak...
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/va ... 07863.html

Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:37 am
by chrishasms
They have also started to harvest them from love handle fat! lol

Anyone want 47 billion or so stem cells? I got them? Free! lol

Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:48 am
by jimmylegs
;) me tooooo lol

Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:46 pm
by mrhodes40
It's all good, it means some possibility of functional recovery for those further down the path.........like me! :D

Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:10 pm
by jimmylegs
yep for any who haven't clicked on throughm, the reason this news is interesting is because they normally use viruses to turn adult cells into stem cells, but that has a cancer risk. the canadian team published a way to keep the cancer risk out of the equation.
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