Stem Cells Cure Paralyzed Rats 330
An anonymous reader writes "According to an article on Forbes as well as other sources, 'Scientists have used [embryonic] stem cells and a soup of nerve-friendly chemicals to not just bridge a damaged spinal cord but actually regrow the circuitry needed to move a muscle, helping partially paralyzed rats walk.'"
If only... (Score:5, Funny)
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Let's just tell the animal rights protestors that anyway.
This is amazing (Score:5, Funny)
We must do this as quickly as possible. For science!
John Hopkins == NIHM!! (Score:4, Funny)
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From the article ""They did something that people have been trying to do for at least 30 years and literally hit a brick wall until now," said Dr. Naomi Keitman..."
Is this why they developed an interest in repairing spinal cord injuries? I think we should be told...
Got ya (Score:5, Funny)
Re:For those (Score:4, Funny)
Oh wait... I haven't got any.
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The only reason they're developing medical techniques for rats is that soon the politicians will be the only ones able to afford them, so they might as well ensure that the techniques they will use are compatible.
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Geeze (Score:5, Funny)
Groups like Peta think that rats are abused in laboratories, but they don't realize how easy a life they have it. Scientists are curing all sorts of problems in rats, making it easier for rats to survive. Billions of dollars are spent every year to cure rat problems.
I just wish that scientists would start curing stuff in humans, it would be nice if one of these days they started applying these discoveries on humans and maybe helping the human race out. If they could just take some of those billions spent on rat research and put it towards humans, what a wonderful world it would be.
So, hurray, scientists cure something else in some lab rat! Let me know when they start working on humans.
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Please. Broken spine? Cured! [bennyhinn.org] Mysterious foot pain? Cured! [bennyhinn.org] Crippling halitosis? Cured! [bennyhinn.org]
Re:For those (Score:5, Funny)
One of my coworkers worked in a Drosophilia (fruit fly) lab as a summer student some number of years ago. One Monday morning, he came in to the lab to wryly smiling colleagues. Apparently, animal rights activists had broken in to the lab over the weekend, and set all of the fruit flies 'free'. Unfortunately, this particular lab was working with curly-wing and wingless mutants, so the freed flies took a few tottering steps, then fell out of their open tubes and collected on the floor.
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Wait - you have girlfriends and a wife? And you are a
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I'm confused. Which one is the rat ?