Friday, August 29, 2008

End of the week...

As the school week comes to an end we prepare for labor day week! However I still have to work! I will just be spending some of that time to review stuff for next week. Anyways I was reading an article about how scientists were able to change the function of one cell well into another cell with a different function. It changed pancreatic cells into ones that secrete insulin. This would then be extremely helpful in preventing or helping curing diabetes. The test was used on living mice who are the using testing subjects. Now the next step would be to lengthen the time studying to see the after effects. This always scares me...not to loose hope...but I would just want to be sure that it would really be helping to just temporarily fixing the problem but in then end the aftermath would be worse. Remember Vioxx and Phen-Phen not to forget Thalidomide...ahh...but there has been so many other medicines that helped people survive one more day...

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