Oh Shit There’s a Horse in the Hospital
Posted on 16. Apr, 2009 by Daniel Taylor in Science, Technology
When I saw the headline "Horse Stem Cell Technique to Be Used in Humans" I was really hoping for some crazy ass shit involving horse cells being injected into humans to make them stronger, faster, better (perhaps even hung, like a horse). However, the reality is far less sensational:
A stem-cell repair technique that has already been used to fix hundreds of injured race horses is to be tested for the first time in people with damaged Achilles tendons.
Privately owned British biotech firm MedCell Bioscience Ltd said on Wednesday it would start clinical tests within 12 months and planned to run a larger confirmatory study at several European hospitals in 2011. Patients will receive injections containing millions of their own stem cells, which have been extracted and multiplied up in a laboratory, and can regenerate new tissue to repair damaged regions.
More than 1,500 race horses have been treated using the same process and follow-up data suggests a 50 percent reduction in re-injury over a three year period, compared with conventional treatment.
*Extra credit for anyone who got the Kool Keith reference.
oh…my…God! It’s horrible!!!! :S