Stemcell research, millitary applications?

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-03-15 10:36am

I've read interesting things on stemcells, it could have millitary potential I think.

Like stemcells for heart muscle, give them to soldiers in training to give them stronger hearts, give them stemcells for the brain to help them learn and such.

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2003-03-15 10:52am

You could use them to heal wounds. If one of their arms get shot off, you can use stemcells to put the arm back (or maybe grow a new one?). You can also put stemcells in their muscles give them bigger muscles.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-03-15 11:26am

Sounds like they are planning to create an army of super-soldier

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-03-15 11:30am

I don't think this is really specifically military technology, anyone could benefit from this.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-03-15 11:40am

Durran Korr wrote:I don't think this is really specifically military technology, anyone could benefit from this.

Yeah but things with millitary applications always develope faster than any civilian research.

UltraViolence83 · Post by **UltraViolence83** » 2003-03-15 12:29pm

Is it just me, or does everyone on this board want to create an army of muscle-bound psycho-freak soldiers?

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-15 12:38pm

The military applications behind such tech can be far reaching, I'd say gene therapy would be the best bet so far to create customised soldiers that have superior abilities but aren't clones.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2003-03-17 05:35am

It'd also have civilian applications, stemcells could be used as anti-agapics, like giving an old heart some stemcells so it'll grow stronger, combating the aging of the brain with lots of stemcells that'll form new neural connections, we could even move on to making brand new organs for people.

PainRack · Post by **PainRack** » 2003-03-17 08:21am

IIRC,stemcells have already been used to repair a young man pierced heart.After surgery to stitch up the heart,the heart refused to pump properly and the cells kept dying.

The surgeons then injected some stemcells a few weeks later,and so far,the boy's recovering nicely.Ths was about 1 month ago.