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Strategies & Market Trends : GERN shares will boost to $30 or above next week
GERN 1.2350.0%3:59 PM EDT

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To: mikep who wrote ()11/8/1998 2:22:00 PM
From: CLK  Read Replies (2) of 21
 
I just thought what I read was hype. After all if they made stem cells from eliminating the genes that cause differentiation, then the stem cells may live too long and be basically like a type of lymphoma when introduced and if your key to turn them into something useful like other tissues does not affect all of them you have done some real harm. Then again if you can turn them into some tissue by keying the genes somehow, it still has to be proven that the organs thus produced would be histocompatible for transplant in whatever form and furthermore there is the problem of introducing the key and at what stage. The claims of immortality made me think that someone was not thinking as even amoeba which are immortal by virtue of dividing, actually die after a couple hundred divisions and must use sexual reproductive techniques to propagate. Remember that radiation and other toxic damage kills things even if the genes that cause aging are neutralized. Anyway I vote with the shorts on this one.
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