December 18, 2004

SADIE HAWKINS DAY COMES EARLY:

Stem cells from fat used to repair girl's skull: Doctors report damaged bone grew back after surgery (The Associated Press, Dec. 17, 2004)

Surgeons have used stem cells from fat to help repair skull damage in a 7-year-old girl in Germany, in what’s apparently the first time such fat-derived cells have been exploited to grow bone in a human.

Darn, and the Left had so hoped to exploit cells from dead children to do things like get rid of fat.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 18, 2004 3:32 PM
Comments

I would happily contribute a mjor quantity of fat cells to this effort, without charge.

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at December 18, 2004 5:31 PM

This is going to make liposuction real uncool within elite, Left-Coast circles...

Posted by: Moe from NC at December 18, 2004 10:31 PM

In EUrope they would simply classify the fat removed by liposuction as hazardous waste which means that the only thing that can be done with it is to burn it in an incinerator made in Germany of which none are available since they are not yet being manufactured.

So it is back to fetal stem cells, there is obviously no other way.

Posted by: Uncle Bill at December 19, 2004 7:55 AM

A shortage of German incinerators? The world does change.

Posted by: David Cohen at December 19, 2004 3:20 PM
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