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English players storing stem cells as “repair kit”

by Josh

I wonder what the Very Important People who debate Very Important Things, like stem cell research, will have to say about this:

Some leading English soccer players are storing stem cells from their newborn babies as a potential future treatment for their own career-threatening sports injuries, according to a report in the UK Sunday Times newspaper.

Players are freezing the cells taken from the umbilical cord blood of their babies as a possible future cure for cartilage and ligament problems. Stem cells can be used to regenerate damaged organs and tissue because they are the earliest form of cells.

6 comments

1 Mark { 08.28.06 at 7:31 am }

I still have my umbilical cord in the freezer. What’s the big deal? Career threatening injury or not, it makes for great breakfast sausages in case I get peckish.

2 Josh { 08.28.06 at 7:46 am }

I like saying the word, “umbilical.”

3 OmegaSupreme { 08.28.06 at 8:35 am }

Perhaps Michael Owen could grow himself new legs or maybe Sherringham could grow a new body and implant his brain into it ;)
You heard it here first folks.

4 Jeremy { 08.28.06 at 9:12 am }

Hmm. All this talk of frozen umbilical cords sounds a bit unbiblical.

< crickets >

Ahhh, fuhgettaboutit.

(By the way, nice Cruise zinger, Mark.)

5 Mark { 08.28.06 at 6:26 pm }

Jeremy,

I’m just hoping we can eventually clone Tom Cruise. Then he could star in his own “Top Gun” remake.

6 Mark { 08.28.06 at 6:33 pm }

“Hmm. All this talk of frozen umbilical cords sounds a bit unbiblical.”

Sounds like someone’s been snacking on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. :-)