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Umbilical Cord Benefits

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About two decades ago, it became “fashionable” to save the umbilical cord when a new baby was born.  The cells from the cord were harvested and saved should a familial member in fact need stem cell therapy in the future. To be honest, most of the saved cells were used for siblings, not the actual child from which the cord was saved.

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Breakthrough!

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Tell me again that we can’t use stem cells…

Just like we did two decades ago- right before the s…t hit the fan and stem cell research was outlawed.  We made a (very crude) kidney using stem cells.  Now, folks smarter and more skilled than us are taking the steps to truly make dialysis a thing of the past.

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To the rescue- and it’s not mighty mouse

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Not exactly the news for which we hoped.

Most of us know in our bones that stem cells can provide a great deal of benefit for us.  Whether we grow those stem cells to create new kidneys or new hearts to deal with our ailing folks or use stem cells to create new skin for those who have suffered terrible burns, we look forward to the day that stem cell research will be fully allowed.

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Animal or Vegetable, Redux?

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There are two firms (at least) planning to invade our supermarkets with lab grown meat.

That’s different from the folks who are creating hamburgers and the like from vegetable sources.  These firms are starting from animal stem cells, growing them in the lab with a synthetic bovine fetal serum, and wait until the tissue is formed.  (One firm is using real bovine fetal serum- but the synthetic version has some special advantages- at least for Jewish folks.)

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