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Growing Nerve Cells
Science Central ^
| 03.16.06
Posted on 03/16/2006 1:51:52 PM PST by Coleus
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To: PatrickHenry; King Prout
I think you two need to part company now.
To: Coleus
We injected these hair follicle stem cells into the area where the nerve or the spinal cord is severed
[and] found that the nerve or spinal cord could be regenerated because we injected these hair follicle stem cellsWow, that's simply incredible. From hair of all things. Makes sense though. How many hairs do I lose every time I brush my hair and yet they keep coming back (thank goodness or else I'd be bald).
To: PatrickHenry
It's no fur, pelting me with so many puns all at once. It makes me bristle with anger. (you shoulda know'd this was coming...)
[a-hem!]
keep your hair on!
the root cause of that barrage was the way you gave the interchange the shaft, dim-bulb!
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posted on
03/16/2006 2:45:06 PM PST
by
King Prout
(DOWN with the class-enemies at Google! LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S CUBE!)
To: Larry Lucido; PatrickHenry
hoggin' yer turf, eh? can you
toupee the
weave of puns PH and I have already plugged into this
thread?
I truly hope so, as all the jests I have left are all limp and greasy
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posted on
03/16/2006 2:47:49 PM PST
by
King Prout
(DOWN with the class-enemies at Google! LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S CUBE!)
To: From many - one.
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posted on
03/16/2006 2:48:36 PM PST
by
King Prout
(DOWN with the class-enemies at Google! LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S CUBE!)
To: King Prout
I had assumed that your prior brush with me was sufficient to convince you, but now I must, as it were, wrestle you to the mat and implant this thought in your fuzzy brain -- you are a fringe player in this game. Thus far I have only been teasing. Does that shock you? No matter how you bob and weave, or even wiggle, the bald truth is that you cannot top this post!
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posted on
03/16/2006 4:16:33 PM PST
by
PatrickHenry
(Virtual Ignore for trolls, lunatics, dotards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
To: PatrickHenry
it would be a close shave were I to make such an attempt, but I do believe your last snippet of wit would come out a cut above. glad to have ironed that out - I was dyeing to see you untangle your puns once again. Neither upbraid me nor snarl at this concession - it is, I assure you, no play to beard you.
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posted on
03/16/2006 4:37:52 PM PST
by
King Prout
(DOWN with the class-enemies at Google! LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S CUBE!)
To: PatrickHenry
plucky, ain't I?
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posted on
03/16/2006 4:39:36 PM PST
by
King Prout
(DOWN with the class-enemies at Google! LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S CUBE!)
To: King Prout
As I comb through your recent offering, searching for a filament of meaning, it seems utterly threadbare. Indeed, you seem hare brained. Actually, you are growing cilia with each post, and I shall leave you stranded.
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posted on
03/16/2006 4:58:57 PM PST
by
PatrickHenry
(Virtual Ignore for trolls, lunatics, dotards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
To: Larry Lucido
like the frog that eats the lightning bug, it would be cool to see the mouse glow in the cat's abdomen.
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posted on
03/16/2006 6:20:35 PM PST
by
Coleus
(What were Ted Kennedy & his nephew doing on Good Friday, 1991? Getting drunk and raping women)
To: Coleus
They better hurry up if they expect to get any hair from me!
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posted on
03/16/2006 6:31:20 PM PST
by
strategofr
(Hillary stole 1000+ secret FBI files on DC movers & shakers, Hillary's Secret War, Poe, p. xiv)
To: PatrickHenry
" Actually, you are growing cilia with each post"
LOL!
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posted on
03/16/2006 6:36:33 PM PST
by
strategofr
(Hillary stole 1000+ secret FBI files on DC movers & shakers, Hillary's Secret War, Poe, p. xiv)
To: Coleus
"like the frog that eats the lightning bug, it would be cool to see the mouse glow in the cat's abdomen."
Never heard of that frog eating a lightning bug thing.
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posted on
03/16/2006 6:38:46 PM PST
by
strategofr
(Hillary stole 1000+ secret FBI files on DC movers & shakers, Hillary's Secret War, Poe, p. xiv)
To: PatrickHenry
I have shed all hope of victory in this battle
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posted on
03/16/2006 7:49:40 PM PST
by
King Prout
(DOWN with the class-enemies at Google! LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S CUBE!)
To: Coleus; All
OK FReeper as a professional cell biologist and pharmacologist I am offering my opinion on this matter:
In all fairness, the discovery of green and yellow fluorescent protein (GFP and YFP) and the knowledge of how to transfect it into cells and into rodent models is the stuff of real Nobel prizes. The ability to to fluorescently tag proteins allows us to visually see their biological behavior using microscopic fluorescent imaging systems (both of which I am a known expert ;>) and we all know what we think as the MSM goes "experts tell us". But trust me, I know my shit it this area.)
In this area too many liberals are seeing this as "STEM CELL RESEARCH!!!!!!!!" and not for it really is... This technology allows us to track the development of the nervous system from zygote to adult but understand how various neurons form and how they truly effect our behavior
GFP is the the greatest tool for drug discovery since the use of tritium (3H, yes radioactive!!!!) labeled drugs. This stuff has many uses as our industry gene jockeys can tag this protein on receptor genes and make cells that don't normally show a drug receptor of interest but make that receptor glow!. We can then study through image analysis, the physiological effects of the drug/receptor interactions.
As for what that leads to... Maybe a cure for Alzheimer's, stroke, spinal cord injury, ALS.
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posted on
03/16/2006 7:59:27 PM PST
by
Pharmer
(How am I supposed to rule the world when I surrounded by freakin liberal idiots!)
To: el_texicano
LOL, I think you actually have to have a spine in a first place. It only works for repair - I doubt they could grow a whole new one...
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posted on
03/16/2006 9:54:56 PM PST
by
farlander
(Strategery - sure beats liberalism!)
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