Woman gets stem cell-created windpipe transplant
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/11/19/windp...lant/index.html
Cliff notes:
1. Woman suffers collapsed lung, doctors build her a new windpipe to correct the problem.
2. Windpipe is created using woman's stem cells + old trachea from another body.
3. ?????
4. Profit.
I'm pretty excited about this. I don't want to see human cloning happen during my lifetime, but this has potential to drastically change the way we fight certain illnesses.
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QUOTE (dan @ Nov 19 2008, 04:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I don't want to see human cloning happen during my lifetime.
I do. I'll already be alive then. Cloning would only effect the next generation after its introduction with a few exceptions, meanwhile we'd just get to see the experiment play out on a global scale. If only to sate my curiosity, I'd love to see cloning in my lifetime.
And who cares if this helps smokers. It helps people. If they manage to solve all the problems associated with smoking maybe people will stop bitching about smokers. Or maybe it'll just turn into a campaign against unpleasant aromas... -
QUOTE (redbone @ Nov 19 2008, 06:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I wonder what the difference between a cloned person and a natural twin would be.
Maybe what they should do is clone two twins, then there could be four people that look exactly the same running amok in classrooms. Image how frustrating that would be for the parents.
Natural twins, even identical twins, have variance between their genetic structure. A clone, if perfect, wouldn't. What I want to see is some Gattaca shit. I want schools-for-genetically-superior-people-who-will-rule-the-world-someday and schools-for-the-you-just-aren't-so-smart-are-you-kid? to pop up when I'm like 50, then I can watch as the kids from the latter school go on to have their legs elongated surgically, study every night of their lives, and manage to succeed in a world that had written them off decades ago.
Wouldn't that be an awesome world to go out in?
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QUOTE (redbone @ Nov 19 2008, 05:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Like lung cancer and other smoking related issues =D
She had TB, but I don't think you were misreading the article. Just pointing that out.
And if you're a heavy smoker, insurance likely wouldn't pay for this kind of expensive stuff if it were to become a more common procedure, the same as they wouldn't give a liver transplant to an alcoholic. If you weren't kind to your first set of parts, it's a waste to give you a new one.
But all of that stuff aside, this is still really awesome. -
QUOTE (Aussie Witch @ Nov 19 2008, 09:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>She had TB, but I don't think you were misreading the article. Just pointing that out.
And if you're a heavy smoker, insurance likely wouldn't pay for this kind of expensive stuff if it were to become a more common procedure, the same as they wouldn't give a liver transplant to an alcoholic. If you weren't kind to your first set of parts, it's a waste to give you a new one.
But all of that stuff aside, this is still really awesome.
I would also enjoy the shit out of wasting my third pair, if they'd let me.
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