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Freeze Now, Or Forever Fall to Pieces

March 29, 2007

If you haven't already frozen some of your stem cells, you could be behind the curve:

Some doctors and researchers say that in a few years the use of primitive stem cells from infants’ umbilical cord blood could grow new knee ligaments or elbow tendons creating a therapy that becomes the vanguard of sports injury repair.

Already, some sports agents are preparing to advise clients about banking stem cells from their offspring or from tissue taken from their own bodies as an insurance policy against a career-ending infirmity. Stem cell blood banks are promoting the benefits of stem cell therapies for the practical healing and rehabilitation of tendons, ligaments, muscle and cartilage.

I love the line I put in bold -- could any statement possibly be more speculative than "preparing to advise"? I mean, I'm preparing to advise my publisher to pay me a million-dollar advance for my next book. And if my talent and popularity increase a hundredfold in the near future, I just might follow through.

This, though, is the scariest part of the New York Times piece:

“If you have a child who has exceptional athletic talent at the age of 5 or 6, you might want to get a muscle or fat biopsy to draw and freeze some young stem cells,” said Dr. Johnny Huard, the director of the Stem Cell Research Center of the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and a leading gene therapy researcher. “To have a pool of stem cells already removed would be enormously valuable. The practical use might be years away, but that’s the future of sports medicine.”

I hope that would qualify as child abuse.

Posted by LouSchuler at March 29, 2007 10:38 AM

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And you and I both know there's a father like Todd Marinovich's somewhere who was on the phone within seconds of reading that last bit...

Posted by: Rob from Denver at March 29, 2007 11:44 AM

Freeze Now, Or Forever Fall to Pieces

March 29, 2007

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