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/gallows humor
Posted on 07/10/2010 9:09:20 PM PDT by neverdem
Amazing.
Thanks
Umbilical cords and "pharming"...
This is really cool but it will be bad news to college students and winos everywhere.
“This is really cool but it will be bad news to college students and winos everywhere.”
Hahahahahaha...
We can call this another triumph for “adult” stem cell research.
Yeah, I know, a bit of a technicality, as it’s rather hard to call umbilical cord blood cells “adult” but for our purposes...
The blood is made by using hematopoietic cells taken from umbilical cords in a process called ‘pharming’ – using genetically engineered plants or animals to create mass quantities of useful substances.
It sounds like their using recombinant, human erythropoietin, aka Epogen and Procrit, on the red blood cell, i.e. erythrocyte, progenitor cells.
What was the name of that front company the vampires in “Underworld” used to sell their synthetic, cloned blood?
Umm why O-negative? I thought the best blood for transfusions is O-positive.
Sure, they will be the losers, and Corporations will reap billions of $!
Let's know what are the cost trade-off here, before we go Gaga Gaga?
Open your eyes, Corporations are moving to take control of everything that you need to survive. And by Corporations, I specifically mean a small group of monopolistic controlled Corporations e.g. cross-coupled corporate board of directors, representing a very concentrated economic group of interests as in sixteen (16) Trillionaires!
IIRC, all "adult" stem cells used therapeutically now are rather differentiated progenitor cells. They probably refined a technique to separate erythroblasts, red blood cell precursors, from the cord blood, IMHO, and blast it with the hormone and growing media to stimulate proliferation.
And, I'm sure, someday trapping for Phur.
You are right. Genetically modified seed (patented) is what most corn and soybean farmers are planting now. You can’t keep any back to plant next year, like in years past. If you tried, you’d either get caught, or the seed is inviable by design.
Another different note- my mom (in her 70’s) got bit by a small copperhead about 6 weeks ago while gardening. Although we live in rattlesnake/copperhead heaven, none of the local hospitals had any antivenom- they had to source it from Kansas City.
The means of survival are being slowly concentrated into fewer and fewer hands. As a member of the proletariat I am not supposed to be seeing this. I should be concerned with where LeBron James is playing basketball.
This is great. We can use this on soldiers who have no right to refuse the experimental treatment. We need test subjects. /sarcasm -off.
"Universal" donor is O-negative, but you still need to check for minor antigens.
Minor antigens (other than A, B, and Rh) that occur on red blood cells can sometimes also cause problems and so are also checked for a match before giving a blood transfusion.
Recipients can have antibodies to those antigens causing a rejection.
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/gallows humor
... The means of survival are being slowly concentrated into fewer and fewer hands. As a member of the proletariat I am not supposed to be seeing this. I should be concerned with where LeBron James is playing basketball. ...
Well put my friend!
The article said one umbilical cord can grow about 20 pints worth for about six thousand bucks.
I gather the erythroblasts can only be induced to divide so many times. I know that human tissue cells are limited in how many times they can divide outside the body while human cancer cells can keep going for all eternity.
No O negative is universal. A positive can take negative blood but not the other way around.
I hope your Mom is doing OK!
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