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Frailty can be eased with an infusion of stem cells from young people (www.newscientist.com)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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This is cool in the abstract, on our timeline though?...

“My other thought is how difficult it is to obtain stem cells from volunteers. There would need to be a lot of volunteers to treat everyone with frailty.”

Gonna be a LOT of "volunteers" for rich people I suspect.

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[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Better start lacing your blood with arsenic and foxglove now...

Source: The House of the Scorpion

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well heavy metal pollution in rice is a growing problem, and with environmental regulations going away…

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 days ago

Well the good news is the rich will have to keep the blood of some of us uncontaminated so they can concentrate it in their bodies!

Would you like to hear the bad news now?