Medical News! New Real-Fur Possibilities on Horizon (debate too)

[Jude Wolfshiem]

Human-animal cloning is becoming reality! Cool! Well, except the huge moral dilemmas involved...Hmm, maybe not so cool. Maybe vatgrown genetically engineered human animal hybrid replacement parts would work. I know people have had lab-grown heart muscle and even ears...But this would have to be like growing just the parts you want, not a whole person and then killing them for parts. In other medical news, grow-it-yourself dental implants are in the works as replacement teeth, Stemcells from a removed human tooth, like a wisdom tooth, are grown on live pig jawbones, then implanted into the human jaw and the bone grows onto the human jaw resulting in brand new real teeth! Fangs, anyone?

[ephemral]

50 plus years maybe....Not that any of us will care for fangs by then even if we could afford it......

[Vosur Aekira]

Sorry, I'm not exaclty up for fangs in real life because I had them due to something in my family. All males in my family line tend to get extra canine teeth in the corners of the mouth (front side only). As for fur, well... if you saw my arms, you'd see that I have quite a bit of light-colored hair on my arms naturally.

[Locke Wolf]

It would cross more boundaries than almost anything else to date, but it would be interesting.

And, I go with ephemral, 50+ years, and that's assuming intense refinements make it workable.

[¿ Jesse Pawman ?]

I'm pretty hairy myself, and I have big canine like teeth. (i can also purr and growl and howl)


Robin Williams is already a furry. LOOK AT HIS ARMS! HE'S A BEAR!!!

[Fisk]

Agreed, for those of us who look like Robin Williams, we don't need the surgery  :snicker:

[Jude Wolfshiem]

Yeah, probably, but our Furry grandkids could have the surgeries. Who knows, medical advancements may or may not happen sooner. I just hope stemcell research as a whole takes off, so people like my Grandpa with MS can walk again. ^^

[ambrelye1120]

yeah true...and you can grow your own fangs without that research. i have a friend who's dad is a dentist. the guy got a compound they use to fill in cavities into teeth that becomes normal teeth wall...its like stem cells but not quite..cant explain it...but long story short..my friend got this and put it on regularly for 3 years and grinded them on occasion and now he has real fangs that are his own teeth and actually 1.7 inches long from gum to razor sharp tips.  he loves cosplaying at anime conventions as Hellsing characters tehe but later folks!

[Jude Wolfshiem]

yeah true...and you can grow your own fangs without that research. i have a friend who's dad is a dentist. the guy got a compound they use to fill in cavities into teeth that becomes normal teeth wall...its like stem cells but not quite..cant explain it...but long story short..my friend got this and put it on regularly for 3 years and grinded them on occasion and now he has real fangs that are his own teeth and actually 1.7 inches long from gum to razor sharp tips.  he loves cosplaying at anime conventions as Hellsing characters tehe but later folks!

that's awesome. but dang, i bite my tongue and cheeks too often. that would suck for me.

[Locke Wolf]

yeah true...and you can grow your own fangs without that research. i have a friend who's dad is a dentist. the guy got a compound they use to fill in cavities into teeth that becomes normal teeth wall...its like stem cells but not quite..cant explain it...but long story short..my friend got this and put it on regularly for 3 years and grinded them on occasion and now he has real fangs that are his own teeth and actually 1.7 inches long from gum to razor sharp tips.  he loves cosplaying at anime conventions as Hellsing characters tehe but later folks!

that's awesome. but dang, i bite my tongue and cheeks too often. that would suck for me.

Yeah, same.

[Jude Wolfshiem]

I wish more people would realize stem cells can be obtained from other sources besides embryos. Although, if they're embryos that are going to be destroyed anyways, I wonder if it's better to have a short life better mankind or be left to die in vain? Hmmm.

[Vosur Aekira]

Well, the stemcell research could be used for more medical procedures to improve the quality of life, but the problem is that the most of the stem cells come from unborn children. If they managed to get them from the patient themselves a bit more easily, then that medical research would kick off because the 'moral issue' at hand would no longer apply.

There was a religious situation in which a woman giving birth was losing massive blood, but her religious beliefs wouldn't allow her to take blood from anyone. If she didn't receive a transfusion, she would have died, but still in a conscious state, she denied any transfusions. The doctors were in a fix until someone suggested to 'clean up and inject' the blood that they stored from her during the operation. When they did so, she did not have any reactions to her own blood and they monitored her health for several days after this and found nothing wrong with her.

As for how they currently go about in retrieving stem cells... there still has to be a better way.

[Jude Wolfshiem]

Human fat cells and umbilical cord blood contain stemcells. Also, teratomas (monster tumors that can and will begin to develop into a full human being if left long enough, I am not kidding!) are masses of stemcells from every part of the body which fuse together and begin to grow while the host is alive (Big Fat Greek Wedding aunt's tumor w/ spinal cord, if anyone remembers...)

[Vosur Aekira]

Tumors are damaged-DNA-containing cells... so those cannot be used (cancerous cells also classify along with this). Now, when you mentioned fat cells, that may be something to look into.

[Jude Wolfshiem]

Tumors are damaged-DNA-containing cells... so those cannot be used (cancerous cells also classify along with this). Now, when you mentioned fat cells, that may be something to look into.

Teratomas aren't cancerous, they're perfectly healthy cells growing where they shouldn't be. When they get too advanced they are actually classified as foetus in fetus, which means that the person carrying them is literally hosting their brother or sister inside them. They aren't technically alive, but close enough. I hope the Total Recall version never actually happens. Human teeth also contain stemcells.