Another reason for Muslims to hate us.
Pentagon Regrowing Soldiers’ Muscles From Pig Cells
A few pig cells, a single surgery and a rigorous daily workout: They’re the three ingredients that patients will need to re-grow fresh, functional slabs of their own muscle, courtesy of Pentagon-backed science that’s already being used to rebuild parts of people.
Pig cells. How very culturally insensitive!
But, y’know what…
It isn’t quite salamander territory, but it’s astonishingly close. The Pittsburgh team’s research means that, within this decade, the thousands of soldiers who’ve suffered major muscle loss during this decade’s wars can overcome devastating impairment — a life sentence of chronic pain, disability and no viable treatment short of amputation — and experience at least a 25 percent improvement in physical function. For civilians, the impact would incalculable.
More. Faster. Thanks.
Oh, one more question: would a Muslim or Jewish patient just have to refuse this kind of treatment? I think I saw a Grey’s Anatomy episode like that once – an orthodox Jewish girl was refusing heart valves (or something like that) from a pig, even though she’d die without them.
They figured out how to use a cow’s, instead. Cows. As useful as pigs, and almost as tasty!
Oops, I guess that was culturally insensitive, too.
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