Canada stem cell news

Post by **jimmylegs** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:18 am

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

chrishasms · Post by **chrishasms** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:37 am

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

Post by **jimmylegs** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:48 am

;) me tooooo lol

mrhodes40 · Post by **mrhodes40** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:46 pm

It's all good, it means some possibility of functional recovery for those further down the path.........like me!

Post by **jimmylegs** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:10 pm

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.