Stem cells: baldness cure

[Ladewig]

Stem cell research received a boost today when scientists announced that they have been able to grow new hair on bald mice using stem cells.
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[HarryKeogh]

speaking as a (relatively) young man whose hair is starting to thin a bit up top I can only say this is perhaps the most encouraging news in the history of all mankind.

 

[Suezoled]

speaking as a (relatively) young woman who has 34 inches of hair growing from her head, I can only say I had hoped stem cell research would enjoy a slightly more significant success factor.

 

[Jon_in_london]

Like STOPPING hair from growing in other places!

 

[Hutch]

speaking as a (relatively) young man whose hair is starting to thin a bit up top I can only say this is perhaps the most encouraging news in the history of all mankind.

Speaking as a relatively older man (50) whose hair has past thinning and gone on to starvation (I still have 3-4 left), you do not understate the great importance of this discovery.

Now, if I was only a mouse.....

 

[Ladewig]

I can only say I had hoped stem cell research would enjoy a slightly more significant success factor.

No, you don't understand. The U.S. Congress is dead set against stem cell research. With this new discovery, the old, white men who control this nation's laws might decide to allow stem cell research. If only we can convince them that stem cell research will lead to penis enlargement in middle-aged humans.

 

[HarryKeogh]

No, you don't understand. The U.S. Congress is dead set against stem cell research. With this new discovery, the old, white men who control this nation's laws might decide to allow stem cell research. If only we can convince them that stem cell research will lead to penis enlargement in middle-aged humans.

or that stem cell research will lead to your wife not busting you while youre out with your mistress. that'd get it pushed through.

 

[Suezoled]

No, you don't understand. The U.S. Congress is dead set against stem cell research. With this new discovery, the old, white men who control this nation's laws might decide to allow stem cell research. If only we can convince them that stem cell research will lead to penis enlargement in middle-aged humans.

Oh. I thought a good viable idea would be to have a greater variety of representatives among Congress; those who are educated and somewhat altruistic. Heh. Silly me.

 

[3-toed-sloth]

How about using stem cells to cure vanity

 

[HarryKeogh]

How about using stem cells to cure vanity

the good news is that stem cells can already be used to cure vanity. unfortunately, one of the side effects is "love handles".

 

[3-toed-sloth]

the good news is that stem cells can already be used to cure vanity. unfortunately, one of the side effects is "love handles".

I can deal with love handles

 

[The Fool]

How the hell did they find the bald mice to test this on? Did they advertise in magazines pitched to balding middle age mice?

 

[Ladewig]

How the hell did they find the bald mice to test this on? Did they advertise in magazines pitched to balding middle age mice?

Yeah, I wondered if they bred bald mice or chemically treated them to be bald. I just hope that they don't escape into the wild. I'd be freaked out by a mouse with a really bad combover.