"More impressive than man walking on the moon"

**Ludicus** · October 21, 2014, 07:58 AM

The mechanisms by which transplanted cells mediate their functional effects remain unclear-but,it seems that
Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant

**Phier** · October 21, 2014, 10:06 AM

Not sure if its more impressive, but its definitely more practical.

I worked in a genetics lab in 90 as a undergrad trying to find out why some birds are able to regenerate neuro tissue for the same end. Lots and lots of acrylamide gels. The PI was going through a divorce at the time and sort of left the lab to to assistant and things weren't going very smooth when I graduated. I do wonder what became of that research.

Edit: Ah google. He got a write up in the NYT's in 2010, and looks damn good, shaved his beard. Good for him, nice guy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/science/06bird.html

**Condottiere 40K** · October 21, 2014, 07:01 PM

One small step for a man, one giant leap in medical treatment.

Apparently, nose cells need to constantly regenerate due to pollution.

**The Despondent Mind** · October 21, 2014, 07:23 PM

Another step to humans being gods in 50-100 years...

**Denny Crane!** · October 21, 2014, 10:33 PM

Let the mechanicum arise and stop this petty genetics!

**Sir Adrian** · October 22, 2014, 11:30 AM

I'm with Phier. Useful yes, impressive not so much. Paralyzed men slowly recovering through sheer force of will is far more impressive.

**Denny Crane!** · October 22, 2014, 01:45 PM

How is curing paralysis not impressive. Bloody generation raised watching superhero movies I'm sure that is the problem, if its not Spiderman its meh.

**Sir Adrian** · October 29, 2014, 06:57 PM

Because we already have a cure only it is a very arduous process consisting of baby steps?

PS: I'm part of the same generation as you.

**Phier** · October 30, 2014, 08:13 AM

Originally Posted by Sir Adrian

I'm with Phier. Useful yes, impressive not so much. Paralyzed men slowly recovering through sheer force of will is far more impressive.

I should be clear, I find it quite impressive, just not moon landing impressive.

**Luke Evans** · January 03, 2015, 02:02 PM

I cant wait until some rich

becomes immortal and starts acting like a god and then hopefully he commits somekind of massive fraud so hes in jail for eons, that would be the karma of it.

**Phier** · January 05, 2015, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by Luke Evans

I cant wait until some rich

becomes immortal and starts acting like a god and then hopefully he commits somekind of massive fraud so hes in jail for eons, that would be the karma of it.

Thats an odd thing to be excited for.

It does bring up an interesting concept of what is jail time if one is immortal, but still an odd thing to want to see happen.

**Gaidin** · January 05, 2015, 02:54 PM

There's a lot to be excited about the moon and its time. There might not be too much to be excited about the moon and this time. Even the latest NASA launch was a new orbit for new tests for god's sake. Forget the latest in new communications that they're not really interested in that common people use that would've had them facepalming over the computations it would've taken to have it working. Of course, the modern project might be interesting. Say, Venus. I like the name personally. HAVOC. That aught to drive people crazy. I'll laugh.

**xcorps** · January 06, 2015, 02:39 AM

Manned space blimps on venus...ugh.

There's an interesting discusdiscussion of the matter at the at the Kerbal Space Program science subforum. All I want to do when I think about it is take a flamethrower to NASA.