Interesting piece: fetal stem cells fix mom

sonhouse

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21 Aug 05

sonhouse

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21 Aug 05

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This author says findings show fetal stem cells can lay dormant
in mom's body for decades and help fix bad organs inside moms
body and now showing these stem cell cross the blood/brain barrier
and hang around inside moms brain to fix problems there.
It makes sense in an evolutionalry way because a healthy mom
has a better chance of raising a healthy kid. Interesting stuff.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725134.300

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21 Aug 05

Originally posted by sonhouse
This author says findings show fetal stem cells can lay dormant
in mom's body for decades and help fix bad organs inside moms
body and now showing these stem cell cross the blood/brain barrier
and hang around inside moms brain to fix problems there.
It makes sense in an evolutionalry way because a healthy mom
has a better chance of raising a healthy kid. Interesting stuff.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725134.300

Why is your mum so special?

sonhouse

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22 Aug 05

Originally posted by Bowmann
Why is your mum so special?

Well if I had YOUR mum, I would be bowman, a dreadful state
of existance........

phil nutley

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22 Aug 05

Originally posted by sonhouse
Well if I had YOUR mum, I would be bowman, a dreadful state
of existance........

Now was the spelling mistake deliberate?

sonhouse

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22 Aug 05

Originally posted by phil nutley
Now was the spelling mistake deliberate?

There you go, reading stuff into it that just isn't there. Thats what
makes astrology so popular, and reading bones dropped onto a
shaman cloth. Me thinks thee overanalyeth over yonder limet.

Palynka

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23 Aug 05

Originally posted by sonhouse
Well if I had YOUR mum, I would be bowman, a dreadful state
of existance........

Mum's the word.

UmbrageOfSnow

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23 Aug 05

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Originally posted by sonhouse
This author says findings show fetal stem cells can lay dormant
in mom's body for decades and help fix bad organs inside moms
body and now showing these stem cell cross the blood/brain barrier
and hang around inside moms brain to fix problems there.
It makes sense in an evolutionalry way because a healthy mom
has a better chance of raising a healthy kid. Interesting stuff.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725134.300

Thanks for posting this article. The cells which lay dormant come from a fetus the mother carries. So far it has only been seen in mice although humans seem likely. Not trying to nit pick but just wanted this to be more clear to the people too lazy to read the whole article. And stem cells don't so much hang around to fix things as act as replacement parts. I'm a little skeptical about the Alzheimer's treatment possibilities. We don't know the causes of most of the demylinating diseases and for all we know, newly formed nerve cells, from stem cells will soon have their axons stripped of myelin as well making the treatment useless. I just think more research on both the stem cells and the diseases needs to be done before people make claims like that. Good article though, everyone should read it.