Major stem cell breakthrough: Researchers discover an easy way to create stem cells in 30 minutes - Polidicks

I've always wondered were those actually lead to.

[QUOTE=proch;43714873]I've always wondered were those actually lead to.[/QUOTE] Free spyware sales

We were already able to do this. Crack open a fetus and drink the fluids. Live forever.

Uhh they don't mention this in the article but it actually takes the cells a few days to turn into STAP cells, not 30 min.

Tender coconut water and lactated Ringer's solution? Sounds legit, since apparently the latter is of the right pressure and composition to maintain the isotonic balance. Then again, I dunno if the 28 mEq of lactic acid would be enough to cause blood cells to regress to stem cells, since I don't think there have been any cases where "lR" solution has caused the appearance of stem cells in the bloodstream and aided in recovery from physical injuries. So I'd wager that it'd probably need to be a tiny bit more acidic, like by a fraction of a pH, though it says they performed the test with a weak solution of citric acid. Sadly they haven't mentioned how weak it was, at least not in terms of citric acid to blood solution ratio, so we probably can't test it out for ourselves. Mixing a weenie drip of lime juice into a filled-up coconut probably wouldn't be enough, or it could be too much. But if it were just right, it'd make a rather peculiar cocktail when mixed with the blood, though it'd need thorough sterilization before you could even think about injecting it into your bloodstream, and even then pumping your bloodstream full of slightly-limey coconut water would be a risk that even Tom Hanks in Castaway wouldn't try. Then again he did try to perform dentistry with a rock and talked to a football, so I wouldn't put it past him.

That's why we need laboratory conditions for this shit. You could try out substitutes like this in a lab environment and make an approximation of how much of the alternate ingredients you'd need to make a viable, if not completely perfect solution. But if you did pump a viable solution into your bloodstream, the body would try to neutralize it. A little known vulnerability present in all of us, means that a change of as little as 0.5 pH in the blood is fatal. It's because of things like that happening that the body will automatically try to restore order through hormones secreted in the HPO axis.

I can understand why that'd work, since a big enough change in acidity would throw blood isotonicity out of whack, causing them to shrivel or burst depending on the pH variance. So yeah, injecting the cell-conversion solution by hypo would be a very bad idea. It'd be best to simply make the stem cells, extract them from the acidic solution and suspend them in a different solution that is better suited for human bloodstreams. THEN it'd be suitable for medical hypos. Speaking of which, are there any known stimulants that accelerate the rate at which the body repairs itself, like metabolism boosters?

[QUOTE=ironman17;43715206]I can understand why that'd work, since a big enough change in acidity would throw blood isotonicity out of whack, causing them to shrivel or burst depending on the pH variance. So yeah, injecting the cell-conversion solution by hypo would be a very bad idea. It'd be best to simply make the stem cells, extract them from the acidic solution and suspend them in a different solution that is better suited for human bloodstreams. THEN it'd be suitable for medical hypos. Speaking of which, are there any known stimulants that accelerate the rate at which the body repairs itself, like metabolism boosters?[/QUOTE] nothing along that nature in the strict sense as of yet.

Guess that's another job for the Science! guys, to invent the other ingredient in Stimpaks.

But they're babies :(

[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;43715323]But they're babies :([/QUOTE] did you read the article? nowhere have human embryos been used to produce and examine these results.

So uh...if I cut off my arm could I get it replaced yet?

[QUOTE=be;43715572]So uh...if I cut off my arm could I get it replaced yet?[/QUOTE] In theory, it's perfectly possible at the current level of medical science but you'd need to also understand that the level of neurological function restored wouldn't be 100%. There's always something that'll remain damaged despite the best skills lavished into repairing the same.

Saw the title and thought they achieved abiogenesis. Was disappointed..

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;43715374]did you read the article? nowhere have human embryos been used to produce and examine these results.[/QUOTE] I was being very sarcastic.

Just give us a cure to cancer already. We have all lost too many loved ones to that bullshit. My poor (dog) Cassie :(

I wish I had access to the article. This could be big if it's reproducible.

[QUOTE=Squad1993;43720367]Just give us a cure to cancer already. We have all lost too many loved ones to that bullshit. My poor (dog) Cassie :([/QUOTE] A cure to cancer would ruin the medical industry in terms of all that 'cancer treatment' horseshit. But who fucking cares, it's a cure to cancer.

[QUOTE=Eva-1337;43721524]A cure to cancer would ruin the medical industry in terms of all that 'cancer treatment' horseshit. But who fucking cares, it's a cure to cancer.[/QUOTE] Unless all the big health companies are communicating with each other to suppress a cure so that they can continue bleeding people of money, I don't think you understand how businesses work. Finding the cure to cancer, with patents being a thing, would be worth billions upon billions of dollars.