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Mice treated with a protein from umbilical cord plasma showed improved memory

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Re: Mice treated with a protein from umbilical cord plasma showed improved memory

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aangjie wrote: post #44
crusso wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe, like in the mice studies, we could just graft baby goats to our backs after we hit 50. Sure, it will look odd, but that will just be the price to pay to stay young. The real trick will be to keep the goats from chewing on your shirt collars.

> The real trick will be to keep the goats from chewing on your shirt collars. That's easy. Duct tape it solves everything.. Or you can genetically engineer a goat without a mouth. :-)

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Bleed"?

Re: Mice treated with a protein from umbilical cord plasma showed improved memory

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mannykannot wrote: post #50
epmaybe wrote: post #43

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Are you saying that NPR doesn't have many alternative facts? I think the point the original comment was trying to make was more that NPR doesn't have much in depth coverage when it comes to science. You'll think NPR does an exemplary job when it comes to content you don't know much about. But when you're more knowledgeable about the field being covered, you start to see minor inaccuracies to "dumb down" the concepts.…

You are speculating as much as I am about what f4ker's cryptic and uninformative post actually meant. If he meant what you think he meant, he could simply have written a note about what, specifically, in the NPR article is simplistic. I do not see any way around news sources being simplified, to some extent, about everything, and you appear to agree. Do you think NPR's news is notably "not great" in that regard? Its…

I'm not the authority on journalism by any means, but I'm happy to provide my own take.

There have been some stories on NPR (and most news sites as far as I can tell) that I've felt more knowledgeable about, and realized things were being simplified to make it easier to digest.

I guess another way of putting it would be that at first glance, you think NPR is awesome, and does a great job of covering the news. But then at second glance, you realize that while not intentional, it's just not as detailed or complete as you'd like it to be.

Re: Mice treated with a protein from umbilical cord plasma showed improved memory

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Post by therein »

o_____________o wrote: post #58
pcrh wrote: post #57

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For one, too frequent transfusions results in toxic excess levels of iron in the body, as humans cannot actively remove excess iron. This occurs in people with thalassemia treated with blood transfusions. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3968466/

So extract some of the recipient's blood before they receive a transfusion? This could be donated to a blood bank.

Or reduce the iron concentration in the blood you are transferring.
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