Stem cell 'major discovery' claimed

[dipsydoodle]

Stem cell researchers are heralding a "major scientific discovery", with the potential to start a new age of personalised medicine.

Scientists in Japan showed stem cells can now be made quickly just by dipping blood cells into acid.

Stem cells can transform into any tissue and are already being trialled for healing the eye, heart and brain.

The latest development, published in the journal Nature, could make the technology cheaper, faster and safer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25917270

[randome]

1. We're getting closer to the reality of living hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

The Singularity is breathing down our necks.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[dipsydoodle]

2. I think I'd settle

for more than two sets of teeth and hair.

[Agschmid]

3. Count me in for the hair...

Vanity I know.

[dipsydoodle]

5. It doesn't actually bother me having a #0 haircut.

It just gets a bit boring.

[Agschmid]

6. Yes I miss my pomade!

[dipsydoodle]

8. lol

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I'd actually like dreads.

[DetlefK]

4. They know how they did it, but they don't know what they did.

Quote from paper, page 5:
"These findings raise the possibility that certain common regulatory modules, lying downstream of these distantly related sublethal stresses, act as a key for releasing somatic cells from the tightly locked epigenetic state of differentiation, leading to a global change in epigenetic regulation. In other words, unknown cellular functions, activated by sublethal stimuli, may set somatic cells free from their current commitment to recover the naive cell state."

Lots of scientific papers on biology and organic chemistry are basically about a method or a recipe that has been discovered. They are a hard read as they are very specific and rarely offer explanations for the discovery.

EDIT:
link to paper
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v505/n7485/pdf/nature12968.pdf

[randome]

7. Everything we do is simply rearranging what we find lying about.

But this sounds like we may be in new territory. Could make for an exciting century!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[malaise]

9. Heard that on BBC this morning

Freaking wow!!!