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What are the implications?
by hanniabu 3y ago
What are the implications?
- rolph 3y agoa lot less work to achieve desired outcome. nonsurgical means of tissue repair, replacement, or rejuvenation.
- hanniabu 3y agoDo you just inject stem cells into the affected area?
- rolph 3y agothats a simple approach, application of a pseudo tissue similar to skingrafting is another, implantation of 'scaffold' protien construct, implanted with stem cells is another. e.g. 'ghost' organs or tissue, grafting. a somewhat complex approach is to "wipe" [dedifferentiate] in situ stem cells in vivo, allowing surrounding tissue signaling to program stem cells and induce a developmental path. keep in mind i am being simple for the sake of understanding.
- orliesaurus 3y agoCan anything go wrong with these approaches? Like what is the rejection rate, is there even a rejection rate? Curious, I know nothing!
- rolph 3y agoto keep it simple, this is just scratching the surface of what is there. teratogenesis is a major hurdle to the tech. to a large extent it is induction of a process that is autonomously regulated. consider, the gotchas involved in reusing materials to produce structure. or the complexity involved in changing the nature of a large multinational conglomerate of corporations. the difficulty lies in 're-vectoring' an assembly to alter process that is dynamic and has many possible responses to one specific change, dependent on past event, multiplied by each cell in the respondent cohort. assembly theory, and informatic complexity apply here, overtop the biological phenomenon. ============================ rejection rate is ideally not a consequence when these stem cells originate from the recipient. the tech of topic deals with genetic manipulation, and is simplistic as DNA is not the only component having influence. cytoplasmic factors, as well as the state, and point of process are informatic and determinative.
- orliesaurus 3y agoThank you for explaining it to me!
- moffkalast 3y agoApply stem cells directly to the forehead.
- haldujai 3y agoYou would probably want to induce differentiation in vitro before injecting to make sure it turns into the right cell type but stem cell therapy hasn’t worked out particularly well. One of the easiest problems to understand is that the cellular potential for infinite replication is what causes tumors/cancers too.
- 29athrowaway 3y agoImmortal trillionaires.
- wheelerof4te 3y agoHey, only if they stay trillionaires! Of course, it will be Stem Cells as a Service. Or SCaaS.
- woleium 3y agoStem Cells as a Medical Service, or SCaaMS
- PradeetPatel 3y agoAlthough that may be a sound business model, one must question the ethical implications surrounding it. With that said, that's not too different from existing cancer treatment drugs.
- selcuka 3y agoEveryone can be a trillionaire if they are immortal.
- xwdv 3y agoNot really. Anyone could but not everyone. You need people to uphold the Ponzi scheme of capitalism to funnel money to the trillionaires. Edit: I’d really love to know what these damn down voters are thinking. You literally think everyone can just be a trillionaire? Where is the value being produced? Where is the money coming from? Trillionaires passing each other money around???
- wait_a_minute 3y agoCapitalism has lifted billions out of poverty. It is not a zero sum game. People will invent new things and new industries. There are infinite possibilities to discover and all of those are new products and services and experiences to build. All the commodities humans need for huge increases in per capita wealth are plentiful throughout the universe. NASA wants to explore an asteroid that just by itself is worth $10 quintillion because of all the precious metals in it. That isn’t even the biggest one discovered. There are going to be endless asteroids and entire planets like these. And there will be endless planets that can be settled and colonized and terraformed.