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M.Gregus
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posted 19 September 2007 05:49 PM      Profile for M.Gregus     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Scientists have found an alternative source for stem cells: testicles.

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Stem cells found in men's testicles could someday be used to grow organs and tissues needed to fight disease, researchers at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City have found.

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quote:
"...it appears that these unique specialized spermatogonial cells could be an easily obtained and manipulated source of stem cells with exactly the same capability to form new tissues that we see in embryonic stem cells," said (senior author) Rafii.

Story here.


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remind
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posted 19 September 2007 07:46 PM      Profile for remind     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well, that puts a new meaning onto the phrase "every sperm is sacred", wonder what the right religious fanatics will have against this? Other than every sperm is sacred.
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jeff house
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posted 20 September 2007 08:59 AM      Profile for jeff house     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The lead sentence is priceless.

quote:
Men have a source of potentially life-saving stem cells between their legs.

Someday, there will be societies based on veneration of men's testicles.

Oh true. That's what we have now.


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Michelle
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posted 20 September 2007 09:44 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by remind:
Well, that puts a new meaning onto the phrase "every sperm is sacred", wonder what the right religious fanatics will have against this? Other than every sperm is sacred.

Masturbation is a sin.


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M.Gregus
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posted 20 September 2007 03:52 PM      Profile for M.Gregus     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
You know, when I first saw this I thought it would help disassociate stem cells from the religious "life is sacred" knee-jerk response attached to embryos. The whole sacred-sperm line of argument didn't even occur to me. It figures that there would be a way of frowning upon an alternatives source of stem cells.
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Sven
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posted 20 September 2007 04:10 PM      Profile for Sven     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Sperm are are unborn fetuses. Unborn fetuses are humans. Therefore, sperm are humans!

Isn't that swell?!?!

And, as those who have alluded to the "teachings" of Monty Python, here are the lyrics in full:

DAD:
There are Jews in the world.
There are Buddhists.
There are Hindus and Mormons, and then
There are those that follow Mohammed, but
I've never been one of them.

I'm a Roman Catholic,
And have been since before I was born,
And the one thing they say about Catholics is:
They'll take you as soon as you're warm.

You don't have to be a six-footer.
You don't have to have a great brain.
You don't have to have any clothes on. You're
A Catholic the moment Dad came,

Because

Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

CHILDREN:
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite irate.

GIRL:
Let the heathen spill theirs
On the dusty ground.
God shall make them pay for
Each sperm that can't be found.

CHILDREN:
Every sperm is wanted.
Every sperm is good.
Every sperm is needed
In your neighbourhood.

MUM:
Hindu, Taoist, Mormon,
Spill theirs just anywhere,
But God loves those who treat their
Semen with more care.

MEN:
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.

WOMEN:
If a sperm is wasted,...

CHILDREN:
...God get quite irate.

PRIEST:
Every sperm is sacred.
BRIDE and GROOM:
Every sperm is good.

NANNIES:
Every sperm is needed...

CARDINALS:
...In your neighbourhood!

CHILDREN:
Every sperm is useful.
Every sperm is fine.

FUNERAL CORTEGE:
God needs everybody's.

MOURNER #1:
Mine!

MOURNER #2:
And mine!

CORPSE:
And mine!

NUN:
Let the Pagan spill theirs
O'er mountain, hill, and plain.

HOLY STATUES:
God shall strike them down for
Each sperm that's spilt in vain.

EVERYONE:
Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is good.
Every sperm is needed
In your neighbourhood.

Every sperm is sacred.
Every sperm is great.
If a sperm is wasted,
God gets quite iraaaaaate!


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M. Spector
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posted 20 September 2007 04:13 PM      Profile for M. Spector   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Wow. Male brain cells can be grown from testicle cells?

Who knew?


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Frustrated Mess
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posted 20 September 2007 04:39 PM      Profile for Frustrated Mess   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Most women.
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bigcitygal
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posted 20 September 2007 05:22 PM      Profile for bigcitygal     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Michelle:

Masturbation is a sin.


Really, I don't need much excuse to post this picture.

[ 20 September 2007: Message edited by: bigcitygal ]


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Sven
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posted 20 September 2007 05:45 PM      Profile for Sven     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Michelle:
Masturbation is a sin.

And, if not outright sinful, extremely naughty.

It's good to be naughty.

Of course, I'm never naughty.

[ 21 September 2007: Message edited by: Sven ]


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TemporalHominid
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posted 22 September 2007 03:42 AM      Profile for TemporalHominid   Author's Homepage        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Michelle:

Masturbation is a sin.


But how can something that feels so good be so wrong!

quote:
Originally posted by M.Gregus:
Scientists have found an alternative source for stem cells: testicles.



Yay! I have been speculating how they will get men to donate for human studies.

I think a campaign like the beer promotion women is in order.

Hire health care workers to go to bars and encourage drinking, abscond with them and extract the spermatogonial cells. Show the man a hammer and chisel and say:

"I'm Dr. Nick Riviera. Don't worry champ! This is non-invasive."

[ 22 September 2007: Message edited by: TemporalHominid ]


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