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Re: Stem Cells

Post by Bella Fortuna » Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:15 pm

Dasein wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote: :smooch: You're hooked. ;)
Indeed. but something about me always attempts to escape my addictions, but looking around, I see I've not been incredibly succesful. ;) :flowers:
From as well as you know me you know I can relate to that! :hugs:
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Re: Stem Cells

Post by Dasein » Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:23 pm

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From as well as you know me you know I can relate to that! :hugs:
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Re: Stem Cells

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:20 am

Dasein wrote:
Bella Fortuna wrote:
From as well as you know me you know I can relate to that! :hugs:
Without your habits you would cease to be La Bella Fortuna, and I would not love you nearly so much, nor be as addicted to these forums. :smooch:
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Re: Stem Cells

Post by Dasein » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:04 am

forgive me, I am new here, what exactly does Poinh mean? Polish Oysters in Nefarious Houses?
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Re: Stem Cells

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:22 am

Dasein wrote:forgive me, I am new here, what exactly does Poinh mean? Polish Oysters in Nefarious Houses?
Not sure - do you mean oysters of Polish nationality? Or are you talking about rubbing them with a cloth to bring up the nacre?




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Re: Stem Cells

Post by Dasein » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:29 am

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:whisper: Pictures or it never happened!

doh. pictures somewhere, or maybe that was just my imagination. :p
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Re: Another sliver of sense in the world

Post by CP » Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:36 am

Animavore wrote:How Christians can call a small group of cells a human is beyond me.
Blastacysts are the type of things that if you accidentally spilled some over your forearm you'd be wiping it on your jeans like 'yeeaoww'
You'd wipe it on your jeans? I'd find something else to wipe it on, personally... I wouldn't want pre-foetus goo on my pants all day. (I don't know why, but anything between ova/sperm and formed baby just creeps the hell out of me.)
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Re: Another sliver of sense in the world

Post by BrettA » Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:47 am

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Animavore wrote:How Christians can call a small group of cells a human is beyond me.
Blastacysts are the type of things that if you accidentally spilled some over your forearm you'd be wiping it on your jeans like 'yeeaoww'
You'd wipe it on your jeans? I'd find something else to wipe it on, personally... I wouldn't want pre-foetus goo on my pants all day. (I don't know why, but anything between ova/sperm and formed baby just creeps the hell out of me.)
Might be tasty, though - and that way it wouldn't get on yer pants...

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Re: Stem Cells

Post by Xamonas Chegwé » Wed Mar 18, 2009 12:43 pm

There were two threads about stem cell research, so I merged them.
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Re: Stem Cells

Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Sat Jul 17, 2010 10:51 pm

Yes, on-topic thread resurrection, who'd have thought it.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10613540
Stem cell therapy 'first' in trial on arthritic knees

A stem cell therapy for osteoarthritis is to be tested on patients in the UK for the first time.

A year-long trial, funded by Arthritis Research UK, will mix stem cells with cartilage cells in the lab and inject them back into damaged knee joints.

The new treatment could be an alternative to joint replacement surgery, experts hope.

Scientists from Keele University will study up to 70 people from the end of this year

The trial will be run at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry, Shropshire as part of a five-year research programme.

Three treatments are being tested in a randomised trial of patients with osteoarthritis of the knee.

Cell therapy

Using keyhole surgery, a patient's cartilage cells - also known as chondrocytes - and bone marrow stem cells will be removed and grown in a laboratory for three weeks.

They will then be re-implanted separately in some patients, and mixed together in other patients, into the area of damaged or worn cartilage.

Scientists will then test the effectiveness of all three types of cell therapy, based on the quality of the new cartilage formed over a period of 12 months.

Chondrocytes - cartilage cells - have been grown in a lab and re-injected into patients' damaged knees for the last 15 years.

But scientists now want to find out if combining cartilage cells and stem cells in the same process could work better, and specifically if one type of cell stimulates the other.

Less invasive

Osteoarthritis affects an estimated 8m people in the UK.

The condition is caused by wear and tear to the surface of joints, leading to stiffness and pain.

At present there is little effective treatment for osteoarthritis patients, apart from pain-relieving drugs and joint replacement.

The trial will focus on knee joints, but the results could have implications for other joints, say the scientists.

The advantage of stem cell treatment is that it's much less invasive than major joint replacement surgery.

Sally Roberts, professor of orthopaedic research at Keele University and lead scientist on the trial, says it's also a more "biological approach".

"We are using the body's own cells to repair damaged joints. The hope is that it will be permanent and long-term repair," she said.

But, even if successful, the treatment won't be used on everyone with osteoarthritis.

"Surgeons don't want to put implants into young patients in their 30s, so we are targeting these people for the use of this cell therapy if we can produce robust new cartilage cells.

"Stem cells certainly have huge potential - we just need to learn how to harness it properly," she added.

Jane Tadman, spokesperson for Arthritis Research UK, said: "This is just the start of developing this technique, and it could be a few years before such treatment will be in routine use."
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Re: Stem Cells

Post by cowiz » Sat Jul 17, 2010 10:52 pm

Yes, stem all cells.
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