sarah b.
01-13-2009, 04:21 PM
check out the end of this article: Plan Far Ahead
If you had been a great parent, like the University of Alabama's MacDougall, you would have saved your children's baby teeth in liquid nitrogen as sources of adult stem cells. So now MacDougall has the stem cells of her teenage sons -- Morgan, 17, and Mason, 14 -- from which to create future spare parts.
And you don't.
Slacker.
When she moved from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio to her current position in Birmingham, she took with her the liquid nitrogen apparatus containing her sons' baby-teeth stem cells. She insisted that the moving van have a generator to keep everything super-cold. And "they drove nonstop," she says.
But that's not the real test of great parenting. MacDougall didn't actually save her children's teeth in liquid nitrogen, she says. She took the teeth and extracted the soft residual tissue that holds the adult stem cells and put that in the liquid nitrogen.
Because she's the kind of mom who cared enough to give the hard part of the teeth back to the boys.
So they could put them under the pillow for the tooth fairy.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/04/AR2009010401941.html
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I wonder if future baby registries will include liquid nitrogen teeth tanks. :) Who sells liquid nitrogen?
If you had been a great parent, like the University of Alabama's MacDougall, you would have saved your children's baby teeth in liquid nitrogen as sources of adult stem cells. So now MacDougall has the stem cells of her teenage sons -- Morgan, 17, and Mason, 14 -- from which to create future spare parts.
And you don't.
Slacker.
When she moved from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio to her current position in Birmingham, she took with her the liquid nitrogen apparatus containing her sons' baby-teeth stem cells. She insisted that the moving van have a generator to keep everything super-cold. And "they drove nonstop," she says.
But that's not the real test of great parenting. MacDougall didn't actually save her children's teeth in liquid nitrogen, she says. She took the teeth and extracted the soft residual tissue that holds the adult stem cells and put that in the liquid nitrogen.
Because she's the kind of mom who cared enough to give the hard part of the teeth back to the boys.
So they could put them under the pillow for the tooth fairy.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/04/AR2009010401941.html
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I wonder if future baby registries will include liquid nitrogen teeth tanks. :) Who sells liquid nitrogen?