Indulge my Conspiracy moment !
Kyros has a post below about Digital DNA , And how the Pentagon is working on developing it for use against Hackers ( As A Tracer )
Then I Read About This Skin cell to nerve cell piece , right after .
All I'm sayin is , They're Coming !
Business week
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists at Stanford University have succeeded in creating brain nerve cells directly out of skin cells taken from the tails of adult mice.
The new approach could revolutionize human stem cell therapy and science's understanding of how cells choose and maintain their specialized roles in the body, the researchers said.
The findings also seem to radically upturn established thinking about how cells become cells, and potentially avoid the controversial approach of using embryonic stem cells for cellular therapy. And the research could conceivably open new doors in the future to treating diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, the researchers said.
The researchers had not actually expected to succeed in the endeavor.
"We were blown away," said Dr. Marius Wernig, senior author of a paper appearing online Jan. 27 in Nature and a member of Stanford's Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.
"We wanted to ask the question, 'Do we have to go back in development to be able to go forward or can there be a direct way,' " he said, adding, "This is the first direct conversion that is totally artificial. It doesn't occur in nature."
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Scientists Turn Mouse Skin Cells Into Nerve Cells
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"All I'm sayin is , They're Coming!"
(scenes from How the War Started)
The West: "Now this here cleaning fluid will shine that lovely chassis right up and keep you sparkling brightly even in the worst of dust storms."
The Virus: "We don't like yer look, glitterkuffar, but if you get down on your knees and kiss our cracks, maybe, just maybe, we'll let you have the edge of the road..."
this is huge for stem cell research. These scientists have shown that they don't need stem cells from aborted fetus' for research purposes.
The scariest part is Judgement Day is coming.
I just watched Terminator: Salvation on DVD a couple of weeks ago. Opening scene was cool but the rest of the movie was mediocre.
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