Comments | sitnah: Writer's Block: Copy that

sitnah

Writer's Block: Copy that

Jan 29, 2010 11:39

writer's block

Comments 6

gasslight January 29 2010, 17:10:05 UTC

Congrats on the most cogent response I've read. :)

sitnah January 30 2010, 06:41:49 UTC

Thanks, I try. ;)

rougal January 30 2010, 05:16:43 UTC

Who needs cloning when you can just reprogram cells:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/medicine/article7005401.ece

sitnah January 30 2010, 06:41:38 UTC

I admit, I skimmed. I read about being able to possibly cure diseases with the methods, and that it would be possible to create almost any type of tissue, but would a full-scale organ transplant or some sort of replacement surgery be possible?

rougal January 30 2010, 13:42:47 UTC

Once the methodology is perfected, I don't see why not. In the article they're talking about the method to being a work-around for the "ethical" concerns for stem-cell research. Since basically according to this, any cell no matter the age can be a stem cell.

sitnah January 31 2010, 04:55:37 UTC

Touche