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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on November 11, 2010, 09:29:15 pm
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Link to full article (http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101107/full/news.2010.588.html)
Human skin cells can be transformed into blood without first being sent through a primordial, stem-cell-like state, according to a ground-breaking study.
The progenitors did, however, produce all three classes of blood cells — white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets — all of which seemed to function as they should, according to a battery of experiments. The red blood cells made adult haemoglobin, not the fetal form.
Now consider this not as being for blood transfusions (but real blood banks growing their own blood might well become practical) but as an alternative to bone marrow transplants for leukemia sufferers for example. It is your own tissue so it is automatically a match.
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That is a very valid point but like the rest of the great ideas, (stem cells), (cloning) it will never pass.. personally I really like the cloning idea myself.
way too many movies about that type of research, (the 6th day, The Island, Star Trek: Nemesis, The Boys from Brazil) they only want to show the bad never the good.