Comments on: Helpful Mouse Fetuses Naturally Send Stem Cells to Mom to Fix Her Damaged Heart

By: Ash

Ash — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 18:24:39 +0000

Ana, I just wanted to ask you… If you think animal testing is unnecessary, do you expect scientists to straightaway test new cures on humans? Mice are mammals as well. Their bodies may not function 100% like a human body, but at least we can test new medicines/cures on them, so that it may benefit humans later on. If something is cancerous, you will find out in the mice first, instead of killing a person!

By: Teressa

Teressa — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:14:04 +0000

Hmmm, after reading this article, it sheds some light on what happened to me…I had a heart attack 7 months ago at 33 weeks pregnant, which wasn’t detected until a week later, I was taken to the coronary care unit, 5 days later they did another echocardiogram and to their amazement everything looked normal, I’m wondering whether this was a link…

By: Ana

Ana — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:20:00 +0000

Animal testing is wrong and an insult to real science.
People aren’t rats, the only thing your learn from studying animals bodies is how the animal’s bodies respond. There is no way to be sure that results from an experiment with mice will translate into something similar in humans until tests are carried out in human subjects, so the animals are an irrelevant part and a waste of time.

By: Anant V Joshi

Anant V Joshi — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:21:52 +0000

When a female receives fetal stem cells during pregnancy, her body starts containing cells with a totally different genetic material than her original Somatic cells. Does this change in the genetic make-up of her somatic cells result in a change in the genetic make-up of her subsequent Germ cells? I think it would! In essence, it is possible that after each pregnancy with a different male, a female’s genetic signature changes because of the incorporation of totally new genes from each new male mating partner. Mind blowing!

By: Naheed Banu

Naheed Banu — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:37:04 +0000

What I fee,l it is already written in Quran…..Allah says “I have given you diseases but the cure for them is there within you”….one of them is stem cells. No wonder science will discover many other things. It will be interesting if some other disease is developed and then the transfer of stem cells are studied and their frequency too.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:31:21 +0000

One of my students suffered a massive brain injury following a car accident; she was brain dead. The doctors wanted to pull the plug, but the family would not because she was 2 months pregnant. In her sixth month, blips started showing up on the monitors, by 7.5 months she “woke-up” from her coma when she went into labor. She still has many limitations but walks, talks, and finished high school with a standard diploma, married, and is hoping for the day her son’s stored fetal cord blood can be used to finish healing her.

By: Amelia

Amelia — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:13:45 +0000

One clarification: To my knowledge, stem cells from that fetal age are not embryonic stem cells at all. A second- or third-trimester fetus capable of donating extra stem cells is long past being an embryo. Like the stem cells in the cord blood of neonates, they’re “adult” stem cells. Or rather, they are not (non-induced) pluripotent cells anymore.

Attempting to link the benefits of these fetal stem cells specifically to embryonic stem cells and denying their status as adult stem cells is inaccurate at best. Given the controversial status of embryo-destructive research and the non-controversial status of adult stem cell research, this distinction is culturally important in addition to its scientific significance.

By: Carlye

Carlye — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:54:41 +0000

Wonder if this may be one reason females live longer than males? If females get an infusion of stem cells when they are pregnant, maybe they get little “fixer upper” repairs in areas that may have some damage, resulting in increased longevity? Just a thought…

By: MrsRobinson

MrsRobinson — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 04:19:43 +0000

Interesting read So much we still do not know!

@29. Anonymous. You are either a bad troll or haven’t done your homework.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:17:42 +0000

This would also suggest some of genetic material from the male is being incorporated into the pregnant female’s system as well would it not? One theory about how animals choose a mate is that the mother and father’s immune systems will create a child with even better immunity. If this is the case could females not be choosing a particular mate (subconsciously obviously) to improve their own immune system as well?