Good point Lisa. Epithelial cells are stem cells.
Steven got his science wrong again. The last time he got his history wrong
was the claim that native indians only ate the tongues out of buffalo after
driving them over cliffs. The RCMP (Canadian Mounties) were commissioned by
the Canadian Federal government to stop Yankee fur traders from giving hard
liquor to the natives in the prairies in the 1800's. The Federal government
sent them out to Alberta in the beginning.
When the white man killed off the buffalo there was a lot of 'unrest' in the
native population which no longer meat, and other essentials. The RCMP had
to police the natives after that because of the unrest. Prior to the buffalo
being wiped out by white men, there was no native unrest. The natives used
all parts of the buffalo except guts...
chao
john
----- Original Message -----
From: Lisa Dangutis <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: new interpretive perspectives?
> In a message dated 12/01/01 10:47:28 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> > 2. JF has the science wrong as well. JF wrote "the cells that are used
to
> > clone humans
> > with come from a fertilized embryo." In this case the cells used to
clone
> > were human epithelia cells, skin from one of the scientists at the lab
> where
> > this was done. I believe he is a paraplegic and is interested in
growing
> > nerve cells.
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> Just to clarify the science a little further, the epiphial cells, were
> actually stem cells -- stem cells are being cloned. A stem
> cell is a generalized cell which maybe can become an ephilial cell, or a
> liver cell, et. Stem cells are undifferientated cells. There has also
> been some serious breakthroughs with trying to clone these cells as heart
> cells for patients with heart disease.
>
> Li-
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