<![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood - io9 Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood - io9 Comments]]> http://io9.com Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:01:08 PDT Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:01:08 PDT http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4795851 Using umbilical stem cells gives the religious right anti-abortionists (George Bush)fodder for their media cannons. It is possible now to extract large amounts of stem cells from young children's blood. I went to South America for just such a treatment, and my kids only complained for a day or so. But instead of dying four years ago, they still have their Dad.

locotoro

]]> 8:366156:c4795851 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:01:08 PDT <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4653495 Well, considering that this is umbilical cord blood from babies already born and not unborn babies, the ethical implications are relatively fewer. Umbilical cord blood has been seen as a better source than harvesting unborn children for a long time.

It has been politics that has kept the issue going. After all, why tell the truth about the problems with "fetal" stem cells and the clear advantages of a more ethical and appropriate source (umbilical cord & bone marrow stem cells) when by hiding the truth you can attempt to damage the pro-life movement and gain more support for the money tree that is the abortion industry just by ignoring certain unsightly data.

JCMasterpiece

]]> 8:366156:c4653495 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:30:14 PDT <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4638942 I have no problem with this, just scared if it gets out of hand. Would pregnant women from all over wake up in a strange room one night with their baby missing? Their fetus and umbilical cord sold in the black market like kidneys. My mind is imagining all sorts of different things! From baby eating cultist (which there probably are some) to ZOMBIES! I also had a thought of the people obsessed with looking younger harvesting fetuses to FEEL younger too.

Oh god, I just remembered this part in the manga "Uzumaki" (spoilers!) where these women were having babies, and the babies were regrowing their umbilical cord and people were harvesting and eating it. Then everyone went crazy and the babies were intelligent and obsessed with returning to the womb. So the doctors would cut the women back up and put the babies back in. The pregnant women were also drilling holes in people and sucking their blood. I love that manga =)

Pugcake

]]> 8:366156:c4638942 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:57:40 PDT <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4637862 If this proves to be successful in human test subjects... can it be mass produced and commercialized successfully?

I mean with the negative aspect of such substance coming from human fetuses, it's kinda of weird and may be branded as taboo despite it's incredible potential.

Project Thanatos

]]> 8:366156:c4637862 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:14:29 PDT <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4636679 @corpore-metal: We'd not want to use fetal stem cells on the brain anyways. The last time they did that, researchers found out that you can't turn them off. Link the the New England Journal of Medicine article here.

Besides, we can now make all the stem cells we want without the ethical concerns associated with embryonic stem cells. And who'd want to use embryonic cells anyways? Not only do they have major ethical issues associated with them, they simply haven't produced any real results, unlike non-embryonic stem cells.

dscherck

]]> 8:366156:c4636679 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:26:38 PDT <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4636391 For at least the last five or so years parents have had the option of banking their newborn's cord blood for around $5,000. Maybe I should have invested.

baltwade

]]> 8:366156:c4636391 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:13:15 PDT <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4635295 @stjohn: red bull and baby?

CMG

]]> 8:366156:c4635295 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:06:55 PDT <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4634966 "In the new world of the Future, we are ALL supervillains!"
- Stacey

Ok, I've got my ominous quote. Im ready for the new world of the future.


Princess Stacey

]]> 8:366156:c4634966 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:16:40 PDT <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4634922 Annalee, this is where To Serve Man might come in handy. See if you can reprint a few recipes here.

Jeff-Minor

]]> 8:366156:c4634922 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:03:55 PDT <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4634850 Won't someone think of the children?

-and how to prepare them?

strider_mt2k

]]> 8:366156:c4634850 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:42:46 PDT <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4631843 OK, so let's isolate the active compounds responsible and put them in a fizzy energy drink, preferably one that complements top-shelf vodka.

In all seriousness, I'm wondering how long it will be before a placentamongering ring is busted operating out of local hospitals. But by the time this happens, it might be a necessity. Supposedly we'll have six or more careers in our lifetimes, and may well be working until we're 70. It would help to have fresh neural pathways to learn new skills.

stjohn

]]> 8:366156:c4631843 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:26:39 PDT <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4631317 This is intriguing news. I'm sure they'll eventually figure out some way to do this without using fetal stem cells thus bypassing all the tedious controversy with the religious right.

But I have a question, doesn't increasing the plasticity mean older memories might be "written over?"

corpore-metal

]]> 8:366156:c4631317 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:50:29 PDT <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4631219 the 1st time i heard about stem cells was in the show "babylon 5" were the dr. becomes addicted to them. yes this research sounds terrific! -blurey

blurey

]]> 8:366156:c4631219 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:43:58 PDT <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4631015 "A Modest Proposal" heh, heh, heh.

Grey_Area

]]> 8:366156:c4631015 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:29:06 PDT <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4630742 And I thought placenta hair conditioner was perturbing. Mmmm, cord blood!

Liz Henry

]]> 8:366156:c4630742 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:08:02 PDT <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4629638 Babies, the other, other white meat.

Log1c

]]> 8:366156:c4629638 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:53:20 PDT <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4629475 Hmmm, can't we just eat fetuses (Fetie?) and get the same effect?

Epaminondas

]]> 8:366156:c4629475 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:41:14 PDT <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4629431 Eat more babies... got it.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

]]> 8:366156:c4629431 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:37:49 PDT <![CDATA[Rejuivenate Your Brain with Umbilical Cord Blood]]> http://io9.com/366156/rejuivenate-your-brain-with-umbilical-cord-blood#c4629324 I think that the best way to express this is through that great episode of 'Family Guy' where Peter has a stroke and suffers from palsy and he walks into a stem cell research facility and walks out after five minutes completely cured and then saying "Why are we not funding this?!" on his way out.

newdeepdan

]]> 8:366156:c4629324 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:30:36 PDT