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I had a neighbor that was working on this to fix cartilage in race horses. They take connective tissue cells from the horse with bum knee, multiply them, turn
by opwieurposiu 8y ago
I had a neighbor that was working on this to fix cartilage in race horses. They take connective tissue cells from the horse with bum knee, multiply them, turn them back into stem(ish) cells by exposing them to a series of chemical signals, purify them, and then inject them back into the injured area. They were stem(ish) cells because they would only ever turn into connective tissue, which was a guard against them turning into the wrong thing. He said full on stem cells had a tenancy to turn into cancers if used for this process. The purification process was the hard part, they had special plastic sheets that would stick to only the right kind of cells, they wash the cells over the sheet and then check with the microscope to make sure they only have good ones. Very tedious process, but a race horse is worth enough money to make it possible.
- mistrial9 8y agovery interesting, until that last line > Very tedious process, but a race horse is worth enough money to make it possible only things "worth a lot of money" get the attention? This leads to many dystopian scenarios IMO
- mhb 8y agoLike only very, very rich people having cell phones?
- newnewpdro 8y ago> only things "worth a lot of money" get the attention? This leads to many dystopian scenarios IMO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsil_Trouble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonsil_Trouble
- jl2718 8y agoI’m not worth as much as a race horse, but is it possible to get this done on a human (maybe in another country)?
- opwieurposiu 8y agoAll my personal knowledge on this subject is like 6 years out of date. It appears there are companies now offering this for humans but I have no way of telling if they are legit. https://www.stemcellctr.com/locations/denver-stem-cell/ https://www.stemcellctr.com/locations/denver-stem-cell/