Stem cells

[Zkribbler]

IMHO once cell therapy is developed, it will rank with germ theory and the discovery of blood circulation as great medical breakthroughs.

Lab monkeys with Parkinson's symptoms regained significant mobility after neurons made from human stem cells were inserted into their brains, researchers reported Wednesday in a study hailed as "groundbreaking".

https://ph.yahoo.com/news/human-stem-cells-restore-mobility-parkinsons-monkeys-study-212011774.html

 

[Perfection]

Will Stem cell therapy ever help me remember where my keys are?

 

[Broken_Erika]

Will Stem cell therapy ever help me remember where my keys are?

Not sure, but they might give you the strength to lift your car over your head.

 

[Zkribbler]

Will Stem cell therapy ever help me remember where my keys are?

They might.

 

[El_Machinae]

Will Stem cell therapy ever help me remember where my keys are?

Yes. All the important breakthroughs are going to have their roots in Parkinson's, ALS, Huntington's, and Type 1 Diabetes research.

I started my neuroscience career working on Parkinson's using stem cells as the treatment. This is one of the technologies we'll need this century.

 

[Zkribbler]

...I started my neuroscience career working on Parkinson's using stem cells as the treatment.

Thank you, El!

 

[Samez]

Stem cell therapy is a bit like nanotechnology - it has a lot of potential in many fields but it won't solve all the problems as easy as some would like it to.
Stem cell research profits a lot from "conventional" gene tech like cirpser/cas.
Stem cells therapy can also have some moral issues - esp. if non adult cells of foetuses are used.
There are big challenges but if disseases like cancer, Parkinson, diabetes, MS, adipositas and so on can be treated life expectancy will keep on rising in western societies.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Will Stem cell therapy ever help me remember where my keys are?

No Stem cells will help you get better Boners and sexual stamina
Only after the US gets its Boner stem cell breakthrough will medical science be allowed to develop stem cells for other less important medical breakthroughs /s

Iam hoping for longevity medicines from stem cells as they have regeneration properties
Between this and DNA breakthroughs medical science is advancing at an amazing pace

 

[Perfection]

No Stem cells will help you get better Boners and sexual stamina

Oh well I don't need that

 

[El_Machinae]

Thank you, El!

It was my favorite thing. Sadly, when you work, you need to chase the money. I was never able to get back in. Any other assistance I gave to those types of projects were merely in the form of mentorship. The immortalist in my supports those charities, but my belly needs to eat. So, I work on what I get paid to work on.

We worked for easily named Parkinson's research charities, though. Michael J Fox Foundation gave us money to work with. The local Parkinson's Disease chapters.

 

[Kyriakos]

Yes. All the important breakthroughs are going to have their roots in Parkinson's, ALS, Huntington's, and Type 1 Diabetes research.

I started my neuroscience career working on Parkinson's using stem cells as the treatment. This is one of the technologies we'll need this century.

While i am sure you are good at what you do, i am a bit frightened by this, given your transhumanist views

 

[El_Machinae]

Yeah, medicine for poor people is a lil scary

 

[Thorgalaeg]

I am all for transhumanism. But even more for posthumanism.

 

[Kyriakos]

Yeah, medicine for poor people is a lil scary

I am more worried due to the shadowy attached goal of viewing human death as an illness ^^

 

[El_Machinae]

Aging is a source of debilitating. Death isn't an illness. I'm anti-aging. The anti-death is an extrapolation of normal instincts

I'm sad that after being here for years, and important position of mine can be missummazired sof effectively in one sentence

 

[Thorgalaeg]

I am more worried due to the shadowy attached goal of viewing human death as an illness ^^

I see it more like a setback. In any case it should not be mandatory.

 

[Kyriakos]

I see it more like a setback. In any case it should not be mandatory.

I just don't want the little people in open revolt because only the few chosen ones can afford the treatment.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Why? That would be a nice revolt. Better to revolt to reach immortality than to revolt to reach communism, freedom, democracy or any other silly abstract ideal.

 

[timtofly]

Is that because living forever is a selfish human ideology unlike the others in the list?

 

[Thorgalaeg]

Living forever is neither an ideology nor selfish (given it is accessible to everybody)