I just watched something on TV today that said something about the first time for this kind of Biological science feat. From what I gather from the show a clone is made from a cell of someones body with an egg and sample of DNA from the client in the process, a medical useage being to collect the regressed cells from the egg for a perfect youthful copy of the dna and apply it to an mature and/or present cell in areas of interest. Could you imagine the personalized cosmetic implications of such a business?
Personally, I don't know how you could get a check up for something like that. What would the blood work involve?
I know that well being is overall an uplifting feeling so other than that I will avoid the ethical impositions that some put on it for now.
Actually, adult stem cells are already being used in treating leukemia. I also read an article once about it being used to treat damaged eyes. I found a similar article online: http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1031002392.html
If scientists can somehow find some way to acquire stem cells (embryonic that is) without having to destroy embryos and then really study it, it would undoubtedly be the next breakthrough in medicine. The possible applications of the results of stem cell research is simply staggering... everything from cancer to healing bodily injuries (including brain damage) to organ replacement to immortality itself (or at least a much longer lifespan).
But yeah... the ethical impositions is really unavoidable. Meh.
As for the TV show you saw... hmm... it uses only the DNA? Doesn't sound like your usual cell therapy. Did you by chance mean, apply the new cells and not simply the DNA? Because that is how I understand cell therapy works. That procedure sounds more like cloning.
...but probably effective. Since it is damage to the DNA which causes senescence.
But why not simply transplant whole pluripotent cells, instead of just the DNA? Would certainly be much less of a hassle. That procedure you mentioned seems like it would require every affected cell to be injected with new DNA... which would be impossible. But then again... you can create tailor-made viruses based on younger (stem) cells to repair DNA damage automatically!... heeeeeey that's an idea! *patents it immediately*
(but probably limited to the person in therapy and would not work or be even fatal to another person, not to mention viruses are kinda... well... hard to control)
Well I think it's great. They have been able to grow a human ear on a hairless mouse. I think a few guys on here will benefit when they can grow a pair of balls for a select few forum guys on here!! -not the posters above me on this thread, but we all know who you are!!!
The stem cell research ban was lifted by President Obama just a few days ago.
We've been able to re-grow tissue, from DNA of the original, for some time now. That process has been used to replace various body parts such as the larynx, and esophagus.
There is promising research with stem cells, and beta cells, for a possible cure for type 1 diabetes, as well as neck fractures and nerve regeneration, as well as more diseases like muscular dystrophy. Stay tuned.
Now that the Republicans / Religious Right / religious nuts are no longer in control, science should advance at a faster clip.
If scientists can somehow find some way to acquire stem cells (embryonic that is) without having to destroy embryos and then really study it, it would undoubtedly be the next breakthrough in medicine. The possible applications of the results of stem cell research is simply staggering... everything from cancer to healing bodily injuries (including brain damage) to organ replacement to immortality itself (or at least a much longer lifespan).
all I can say is destroy the damn embryo's. it's gunna start happeneing soon enough.
gettoknowit saidI just watched something on TV today that said something about the first time for this kind of Biological science feat. From what I gather from the show a clone is made from a cell of someones body with an egg and sample of DNA from the client in the process, a medical useage being to collect the regressed cells from the egg for a perfect youthful copy of the dna and apply it to an mature and/or present cell in areas of interest. Could you imagine the personalized cosmetic implications of such a business?
Personally, I don't know how you could get a check up for something like that. What would the blood work involve?
I know that well being is overall an uplifting feeling so other than that I will avoid the ethical impositions that some put on it for now.
You're conflating several things.
Primarily: You can't "regress" DNA. You can use, in theory, old DNA to make a new clone using an egg, but that clone will have problems due to the fact stated above, DNA cannot be regressed, and thus your new clone will be subject to all the DNA aging problems of an adult (telomere shortening, DNA damage from radiation, etc).
However...
You can take adult skin cells and "regress" them to being "pluripotent" (able to become any cell) stem cells, and as of this week even make them into the cells that become eggs and sperm.
Which means, in theory, that all sorts of things become possible. The first, and most obvious, is replacement organs that are guaranteed not to be rejected by the host.
Second, it makes gene therapy suddenly possible. Because you can take a single cell (say, mine) and fix the problem (a gene that fucks up the excretion of citrate) then make it pluripotent and use it to grow a new kidney. Then you could put the replacement organ which no longer has the defect in it, into the host (me) and wham, I have not only a new kidney, but one which does not make kidney stones.
honestly, im so so so tired of writing about this because i do so frequently. Let me sum up in a simplified way Why ESC treatments are not actually ethically out of place in todays society.
IVF produces HEAPS of left over day 4 blasocysts. these are stored for about 10 years then incenerated. day 4 blasocysts are the point where ESCs are present and perfect for use in research and or academia. If they are going to be destroyed by this means, how is that different to destroying them then looking at them under a microscope to glean information from them. That is that. couldnt be arsed going on further because im tired from a day of work, where i do work with haematopoetic stem cells, but thats a different story.
gettoknowit saidWith the compatibility of a strand of cloned DNA with a host and the genetic code solved would it be possible for a person to shape shift/morph?
Yes, into a cancerous mess. LOL
It could be possible though, something like genetic splicing of bacteria, but we're not single-celled. Any cell with new DNA would most likely be identified as foreign and be attacked by our immune system.
I'm certainly no expert, but I think that changes to DNA can be delivered by using a retro virus. I wouldn't mind being encoded with Bully Whippet DNA that gives you endless muscles. Or maybe gills. That'd be cool.
Evolution of the Immune system in a living human being is the product of stem cell research and genetic engineering. Therefore cures have become obsolete. The new trend is a more personal/authentic-for-a-single-individual approach depending on their genes.
Although the believers of false belief systems and the Bush Administration held up stem cell research for quite a while, one of President Obama's first decrees was to get it going again.
We're on the way to a cure for many diseases via this research. One exciting thing is using stem cells to grow beta cells, which make insulin. It's been done in mice, and in sheep. For type 1 diabetes patients, this could mean a cure or a significantly better treatment plan.
Science moves on, and stem cell research is an important part.
Cloning is not new news. Will it be detectable? I imagine.
These are the most beautiful wings I have ever seen. If they could actually hold a human in flight I would get a pair.
There is something else that comes to mind when talking about genetics, that would be the symbolic "X" of the chromosome. X-men evolution is such a great show because the X is combined with a subtitle of evolution so the thought is magnificently aligned. I just bought some hand sanitzer today also that is "RX" brand so as to sort of correlate to the imune systems stability.
I'm sure there was a lot of love involved in the acceptance of research into cloning, because of risks involved in certain things bringing people to life again is a central and reasonable theme to cloning.
If scientists can somehow find some way to acquire stem cells (embryonic that is) without having to destroy embryos and then really study it, it would undoubtedly be the next breakthrough in medicine. The possible applications of the results of stem cell research is simply staggering... everything from cancer to healing bodily injuries (including brain damage) to organ replacement to immortality itself (or at least a much longer lifespan).
all I can say is destroy the damn embryo's. it's gunna start happeneing soon enough.
So I've been thinking and if you look at birds, the wing is actually like their arm, so in order for a person to have arms and wings the DNA of a multiple limbed creature, such as an insect, would be the way to make wings possible as an addition to the normal physique.
Meh.
*patents it immediately* 
