MUAHAHAHA!

This makes me wish I bought Google stock... [depressed]

Sell! Sell! Sell!

Ahhh, once again the sandwich-heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor!

lol I would if I was trading this one, but I'm holding on to this one for long term goals. This company has had a few short surges like this within the past year. I'll lose probably half the gain it lost, but it should still end up higher than when it started... unless the tests which caused the surge fail. >_<

I personally can't wait until we can clone ourselves for extra parts for us. If I lose my leg in an accident they can chop it off my clone and give me new legs then put the clone back in its holding cell.

Thats disturbing. You're making my portfolio cry.

How many shares do you own?

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Original post by dischord333 I personally can't wait until we can clone ourselves for extra parts for us. If I lose my leg in an accident they can chop it off my clone and give me new legs then put the clone back in its holding cell.

Did anyone ever see that episode of sliders? Basically they slid into a world that was jsut like that.. everyone had a clone of themselves for spares, drugged up in a cell somewhere. Ahh.. that was a great show (but then gradually got worse and worse).

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Original post by dischord333 I personally can't wait until we can clone ourselves for extra parts for us. If I lose my leg in an accident they can chop it off my clone and give me new legs then put the clone back in its holding cell.

It doesn't work that way. If you wanted to make a clone for spare parts you wouldn't be wasting your time with stem cells, you'd just be taking eggs, injecting them with your DNA and growing them. Making a whole human (even one that was a vegetable) using stem cell technology could only happen after the entire field had been mastered, and even then just growing one the "normal" way (egg) is still 1000x simplier.

What stem cells are good at is that they can be commanded to become any type of cell (they're like a solid block of metal, you can make any type of screw or nail you want). By using developing grafting technology, these cells can thus be used to artificial "grow" an organ. Basically you create scaffolding out of a bio-degradable material. The cells are then coaxed into growing on that framework. Afterwords the framework is broken down, leaving the completed organ. It's already been done successfully to create a human ear out of skin cells (ultimately stem cells would allows you to get the required skin, heart or brain cells without harvesting them from an existing source), and work is underway to artificially create other simple organs, such as livers (in fact I would bet that within 10 years liver transplants will be at least 50% lab grown). In other situations research is underway in areas where you don't need a graft, such as with brain or spinal cord cells (as far as anyone can tell, you can almost just pour in new brain cells to replace those damaged by disease)

Indeed. At the University of Toronto, they've developed scaffolds for regrowing spinal tissue. Eventually they will be able to make paralyzed people walk again. It's amazing.

Thank God,
now i dont have to worry about not being able to code/watch advent children cuz i lost my sight (one of my greatest fears)

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Original post by Tron3k Indeed. At the University of Toronto, they've developed scaffolds for regrowing spinal tissue. Eventually they will be able to make paralyzed people walk again. It's amazing.

Thats infact already been done, was a women on a TV show over here who had stem cells packed into her spine, which had been clean cut around the upper middle of her back and she can now situp and work the muscles in her lower body, has more feeling and can work her body a bit better.

And the intresting thing about these stem cells is that they came from her nose! Apprently the nerves which control smell get killed by stuff like colds and polution, yet we can all still smell because we have stem cells there to regenerate the nerves, which is pretty cool [grin]

Not generally purpose ones I guess, but good enuff to repair nerve damage it seems, go science go!

What we need are those little wound repair things that they had on star trek.

I'd buy stock and such, but with only 300$ and me being the only one in the family that actually follows the market even slightly, there's no way I could make a meaningful investment (especially after adding stockbrocker charges, etc.)

*I cry*

Wow. Way to defeat yourself.

I got lots of stock in CloneAid! I'm just waiting for it to take back off!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2613733.stm

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Original post by Charles Hwang I'd buy stock and such, but with only 300$ and me being the only one in the family that actually follows the market even slightly, there's no way I could make a meaningful investment (especially after adding stockbrocker charges, etc.) *I cry*

Borrow money and invest it. If you're lucky and invest well, you will easily be able to repay your initial loan, and make a fat profit. If you're unlucky or choose badly, declare bankruptcy.

Or at least that's what the 'get rich quick' books I've read said. Then again, if it's really that easy, why would they be writing get-rich-quick books rather than just being rich?

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Original post by fractoid Quote: Original post by Charles Hwang I'd buy stock and such, but with only 300$ and me being the only one in the family that actually follows the market even slightly, there's no way I could make a meaningful investment (especially after adding stockbrocker charges, etc.) *I cry* Borrow money and invest it. If you're lucky and invest well, you will easily be able to repay your initial loan, and make a fat profit. If you're unlucky or choose badly, declare bankruptcy. Or at least that's what the 'get rich quick' books I've read said. Then again, if it's really that easy, why would they be writing get-rich-quick books rather than just being rich?

Because those people are advisors. They're also advising you to gamble. Which is stupid. You would probably have the same odds at a casino.

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Original post by HughG I got lots of stock in CloneAid! I'm just waiting for it to take back off! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2613733.stm

What tha!? You're in for the IPO? Are you a VC?

Anyway good luck with the company. It looks cool. I'll check out their financials in a bit...

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Original post by fractoid Quote: Original post by Charles Hwang I'd buy stock and such, but with only 300$ and me being the only one in the family that actually follows the market even slightly, there's no way I could make a meaningful investment (especially after adding stockbrocker charges, etc.) *I cry* Borrow money and invest it. If you're lucky and invest well, you will easily be able to repay your initial loan, and make a fat profit. If you're unlucky or choose badly, declare bankruptcy. Or at least that's what the 'get rich quick' books I've read said. Then again, if it's really that easy, why would they be writing get-rich-quick books rather than just being rich?

But I'm wondering.. Who would be willing to lend some money to a teenager who wants to buy shares?