Stemcell Research may have just made a major advancement

So that means you could then take those stem cells and grow organs and stuff from them?

Sounds awesome. Forget about making prosthetic legs, imagine if you could literally build a new leg.

INRM
 
I am interested to see how "equivalent" these new lines are. It seems strange that we have went from "only embryonic stem cells work" to "Skin cells are just as good" this quickly. The media has quickly played this into the idea that there is no need to utilize embryonic stem cells at all, because these are the same. Do they know this for sure? Are they going to find out in 6 months that they don't work the same after all? Just curious. Does anyone with more knowledge know if this really is the end of the need for embryonic stem cell research?
 
Aye, what Kev asked. If it really is the end of the need for embryonic stem cells, prepare for some serious Christian apologist crowing.
 
appearently the retroverted skin cells are pluripotent. this research is preliminary so there may be issues with it and they may not be as pluripotent as embryonic, but it most certainly is promising. Look, if we can get the same results as embryonic stem cells without killing embryos then it makes everybody happy.
 
This has potential. Nothing definite, but as I read this story in the paper this morning, I thought it at least looked a bit promising. We'll have to wait and see where they go with this testing and research and what they find.

Cheers,
DrZ
 
So we won't need women to reproduce men? Just raise some elbow sells into the next generation? HA! and the women thought they would be cloned and not need men anymore...
 
Well we might not need women anymore, but even if so... I'm not gay so that would be a crappy world to live in.

In any case though this is a pretty exciting discovery. Assuming it does allow the cells to be as viable and valuable as embryonic stem cells, there's additional possible benefits. If you could make stem cells from a patient's own body then you could overcome rejection issues and potentially grow them into tissue or even maybe organs which could be transplanted without immune problems.
 
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