We had a guest speaker today, and he gave a lecture about adult and embroynic stem cells for 4.5 hours. Was it worth the price of addmission? Yes, but I really could have done without the students. (Or at the very least the students that where there just for the extra credit.) But the presentaion was nifty. He went into the uses of stem cells, and why tissue is regected, and tissue regeneration, and tissue... uh growth? (Making new skin, jaws, mylien sheeafs, ect.)
And the team at the Washingtion Uni. at St. Louis did get the go ahead to do the face transplant. The procedure is to cut the face off a donner, then remove the (highly damaged) face of the host, then put it on. This procedure, from what I could gather from the show (I leaned about the procedure orginaly off a show off the discovery channel.) The face that is transplanted would look like a mixture of the donners face and the hosts original face.
But another effect of this little lecture was that I'm not that worried about adjusting to a collage class, since it was't as bad as I thought.
And the team at the Washingtion Uni. at St. Louis did get the go ahead to do the face transplant. The procedure is to cut the face off a donner, then remove the (highly damaged) face of the host, then put it on. This procedure, from what I could gather from the show (I leaned about the procedure orginaly off a show off the discovery channel.) The face that is transplanted would look like a mixture of the donners face and the hosts original face.
But another effect of this little lecture was that I'm not that worried about adjusting to a collage class, since it was't as bad as I thought.