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  1. From what little connection I have, Harbaugh is fairly likely and Mullen is a backup choice. They'll have to fight and persuade to get either of them. Miles is a "no" currently.
  2. Shawn Eichorst. November 30, 2014. Oh boy. #notagoodlook
  3. A few embryos and some stem cells have been created, but that's about it. Cloning an entire human being is pretty worthless and that's where most of the religious nuts go crazy, but in reality nobody wants to do that. But what is useful would be creating lab-grown tissues and organs - cloning could allow us to create lab-grown bone marrow that would perfectly match a patient for a transplant, or a lab-grown kidney or liver tissue or whatever it might be. If it is cloned, it contains all of the cellular markers of the original host and would eliminate rejection and graft v host disease in transplants. And cloning stem cells paves the way for not only all of this but for anything that stem-cell therapy and stem cells in general are used for, including research. Why hasn't a human been cloned yet? Well besides uselessness of cloning a human just for sh#ts and giggles (and the fact that funding/support for this would be nonexistent), there are a bunch of challenges that we don't face when cloning animals. First and foremost is a supply of egg cells - with sheep or cattle or whatever, we can just harvest a sh#t ton of ovaries and get egg cells. Thousands and thousands of them without too much trouble. With humans, you're talking hormone therapy and a surgical procedure by a willing donor in order to get just a few egg cells. So that's the big thing. And the unique developmental biology of each organism in its embryonic stages and the implantation procedure (also needing a willing host mother rather than just a female lab animal) poses a challenge because it means you can't just do the sheep procedure with a human egg - it wouldn't work. But I'm pretty sure we've gotten to the point where we've at least created some viable embryos, so it's a start Unfortunately, the religion nuts start foaming at the mouth when they hear the word "clone" so they're sabotaging research that will produce literal medical miracles in the future. So it goes.
  4. Young commits, Cotton and Garrison are gone, and Warren stays. Bears are awful. Today is pretty fantastic.

    1. NUance

      NUance

      Garrison wasn't that bad. The Bears are though. /facepalm

  5. Warren staying! Happy days!

  6. Johnny Foosball

    1. Junior

      Junior

      More like Johnny Suckballs!

  7. lol mormons

    1. irieboy8

      irieboy8

      i HATE BYU and pretty much anyone from Utah..unless they snowboard and are not mormons

  8. I feel like this game is God's punishment for me going out last night and misbehaving and drinking way too much JUST MAKE IT END ALREADY
  9. I blame the fat towel kid for not wiping the floor well enough
  10. Who's a 20 yr old Kobe? Who are the white kids on the bench. Will they never play? If those white kids were playing I bet we'd still be undefeated!
  11. Luckily for us, the Cincinnati offense is abysmal. No clue what they are trying to do
  12. If this team is going to be so inept in the half court with no point guard and no bigs, we're going to need to start scoring in transition a lot more. I understand not wanting to start track meets, but I think we're killing ourselves by slowing down at times
  13. Can I get tomorrow's lottery? I'll need 100K up front.
  14. Cincinnati has us figured out. I've seen this game before; it was the Creighton game. Nebraska loses by 15
  15. walks is in favor of torture, we get it.
  16. hey do u guys remember BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIP PREVIEW Nebraska @ Michigan State on October 4th?

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