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Subject: We can now get stem cells from piss!

Generation of human induced pluripotent stem cells from urine samples

  • 12.01.2012 3:35 PM PDT
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I do not want to stop asking. I do not ask to stop wanting.

In other news, you can get sperm from grapefruit

  • 12.01.2012 3:36 PM PDT
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  • 12.01.2012 3:36 PM PDT

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  • 12.01.2012 3:43 PM PDT

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5. Medal of Honor or Spec Ops: The Line

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We also have a pill that can keep you from getting HIV. Science! -blam!- yeah!

  • 12.01.2012 3:44 PM PDT

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Great, now I have to pee in a bucket of bleach so I won't be cloned and replaced...

  • 12.01.2012 3:44 PM PDT


Posted by: Haloroach
In other news, you can get sperm from grapefruit


You mean spermadine.

  • 12.01.2012 3:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: Mitochondrion

Posted by: Haloroach
In other news, you can get sperm from grapefruit


You mean spermadine.


*spermidine

  • 12.01.2012 3:48 PM PDT


Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Great, now I have to pee in a bucket of bleach so I won't be cloned and replaced...


Stem cells are a starting point but I doubt that you can clone someone and they wouldn't have a brain because you can't make that.

  • 12.01.2012 3:48 PM PDT


Posted by: Haloroach

Posted by: Mitochondrion

Posted by: Haloroach
In other news, you can get sperm from grapefruit


You mean spermadine.


*spermidine


Yeah, that. Sperm is alive spermadine is a biochemical.

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Posted by: Mitochondrion

Posted by: Haloroach

Posted by: Mitochondrion

Posted by: Haloroach
In other news, you can get sperm from grapefruit


You mean spermadine.


*spermidine


Yeah, that. Sperm is alive spermadine is a biochemical.


*spermidine

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A real test of a man is if he is willing to scrape a sharpened razor up and down his junk just to please a woman.

Does this mean we don't get to grind up dead babies, anymore?

  • 12.01.2012 3:56 PM PDT

Sometimes, I dream about cheese.

You can stem cells from almost every part of you, but fact is people can't get over their love affair with the fetus.

Even if it's irrelevant.

  • 12.01.2012 3:56 PM PDT

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Please allow me to introduce Myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man's soul and faith


Posted by: Mitochondrion

Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
Great, now I have to pee in a bucket of bleach so I won't be cloned and replaced...


Stem cells are a starting point but I doubt that you can clone someone and they wouldn't have a brain because you can't make that.
says you now. Just 2 years ago the only way to get stem cells was by harvesting aborted fetuses. Now we can get it from the cells in our pee.

I am officially hesitant to say what can, and cannot, be done now.

  • 12.01.2012 3:57 PM PDT

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Misleading title. Apparently, you can collect renal epithethial cells that were shed into the urine and then cause some of them to become stem-cell-like using a retrovirus. I don't know whether they studied the karyotype of the resulting cells, but reprogrammed cells can sometimes develop gross genetic abnormalities, so this is one issue to be addressed before they'd be suited to clinical use (if that is even the intent).

  • 12.01.2012 3:57 PM PDT

1. Half-Life 2
2. Mass Effect 3
3. Mass Effect 2
4. Tie between Halo 3 and CoD4
5. Medal of Honor or Spec Ops: The Line

"You can be larger than life. But you can't be larger than death."


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You can stem cells from almost every part of you, but fact is people can't get over their love affair with the fetus.

Even if it's irrelevant.

Posted by: deadlyfluffball
but fact is people can't get over their love affair with the fetus.

Posted by: deadlyfluffball
their love affair with the fetus.

Ew.

[Edited on 12.01.2012 3:59 PM PST]

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Posted by: theHurtfulTurkey
A real test of a man is if he is willing to scrape a sharpened razor up and down his junk just to please a woman.


Posted by: PMC Fluffy
Copied from Reddit:

Misleading title. Apparently, you can collect renal epithethial cells that were shed into the urine and then cause some of them to become stem-cell-like using a retrovirus. I don't know whether they studied the karyotype of the resulting cells, but reprogrammed cells can sometimes develop gross genetic abnormalities, so this is one issue to be addressed before they'd be suited to clinical use (if that is even the intent).
So, now we can clone mutants from piss?

  • 12.01.2012 3:59 PM PDT

Sometimes, I dream about cheese.


Posted by: PMC Fluffy
Copied from Reddit:

Misleading title. Apparently, you can collect renal epithethial cells that were shed into the urine and then cause some of them to become stem-cell-like using a retrovirus. I don't know whether they studied the karyotype of the resulting cells, but reprogrammed cells can sometimes develop gross genetic abnormalities, so this is one issue to be addressed before they'd be suited to clinical use (if that is even the intent).



Let's give them to everybody and fight mutants with laser guns.

  • 12.01.2012 3:59 PM PDT