Will the male fundies practice what they preach-- Stem Cells -- Baldness cure

[wakeme2008]

:rofl:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/05/17/baldness.study.reut/index.html
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Mice with deep skin wounds can grow new hair, scientists said on Wednesday in a finding that offers hope for a baldness remedy for humans.

The mice regenerated hair at the site of the wound via molecular processes similar to those used in embryonic development, according to the research, published in the journal Nature.

..cut..

Dormant embryonic molecular pathways were activated, sending stem cells -- master cells able to transform into other cell types -- to the damaged skin.

The stem cells that gave rise to the regenerated follicles were not stem cells usually associated with hair-follicle development.

..more at link...

[tanyev]

1. Don't worry, the mighty Toupee Lobby will make sure that treatment never sees the light of day.

[meegbear]

2. Some people out there think they're oh so good ...

donating toupees to storm victims and all, but if they only knew ....

[Stuckinthebush]

3. As a man with an ever increasing forehead

I applaud the mice in their important work! :)

Yes, I will bet major money that the fundamentalist xtian white men who I know will find a convenient way to excuse any stem cell research on this subject. Bet on it.

[zanne]

4. If stem cell research resulted in breasts growing bigger.

They'd all be on board. Better yet, if breasts grew bigger AND beer spouts could be placed in them.... (I don't think I have a high opinion of most men).

[Clark2008]

8. LOL!!

It's OK. Sometimes the behavior of some men cause us to have these less-than-high opinions of them. ;)

[Ganja Ninja]

5. And to think if we hadn't have had to put up with this bunch of

losers running the country for the last 6 years I could be growing a head full of long luxurious hair. Now I'm really pissed.:grr:

[patricia92243]

6. If stem cells will do permanently what viagra does temporarily - well, let's just say everybody of w

whatever political or religious stripe - will be 100% FOR stem cell research.

[TlalocW]

7. There will never be a baldness cure

Otherwise, Jean-Luc Picard wouldn't have been bald in the 24th century.

TlalocW

[Javaman]

9. Oh yeah, well, huh, some of us like being bald...okay...

man, there is no way to make that sound truthful. LOL

This is from a guy who has been bald since he was 5!

[Igel]

10. Seems to involve the subject's own (adult) stem cells.

Fundies love adult stem cell research. Every treatment that involves adult (or cord) stem cells is one less that HESCs are needed for.