(linkback) Hooray! or Boo!? Researchers use stem cells for breast augmentation [VOTE] - http://www.thriveorfail.com/bb085

I for one will invest heavily in whatever company learns how to use stem cells to enlarge a man's penis. I'm sure there's a lot of money to be earned in stem cell breast implants, but stem cell penis augmentation will be a friggin gold mine.

What on earth does this inscrutable Cytori tagline mean?

Where mammophilia meets the profit motive the possibilities are infinite.

Whether this stem cell approach works or not, the industry and its profit motives are not gonna change.

And if it does work, and breast cancer survivors (Christina Applegate, anyone?) wish to use it to regain natural-looking breasts, then who the hell are we to say no?

Perhaps the proecedures may even shine new light on challenges / benefits that will face future stem cell applications.

I vote for Hooray.

For sure, if stem cells are to be used for breast augmentation, there will be more support for stem cell research. Votes, bucks, whatever, it'll be coming the way of the researchers. The Parkinson's patients will definitely benefit from the trickle-down effect.

There's some evidence to suggest that stem cells cause cancer. A scientist looked at cancers from transplant recipients where the donor was the opposite sex. If the sex chromosomes of the cancer cells were not the same as the gender of the host, then the presumption was that stem cells from the transplant moved elsewhere and caused cancer.

And who needs breast augmentation anyway? I can't imagine wanting foreign bodies implanted in one's own body, especially after cancer. (And yep, I'm likely to get breast cancer, based on my genetic heritage)

I can’t imagine broadsheet missing the point more if they tried. This is an immeasurably good thing for stem cell research. One simple word: familiarity.

When the vast majority of people hear stem cells they think “made from aborted babies”. With the advent of using stem cells to enlarge breasts, stem cells go from horrible to no big deal (no pun intended).

This is exactly the brilliant strategy used by the gay community. Get people used to it in small steps. Small, inoffensive steps that can lead to more.

Some day, people, even religious people, will have stem cell treatment available to them. Available to cure diseases, to regenerate tissues, to save and improve lives.

And we will have breast augmentation to thank for that.

Stay away from broadsheet girls when this happens. Their heads might explode.

Not just familiarity for the public, but also for doctors. Physicians and researchers will gain invaluable knowledge about stem cell therapies. By learning to grow new breast tissue, we'll be much better prepared to grow, say, liver tissue, or lung tissue.

Cosmetic procedures are an ideal, high-profit incentive venue to get pharmaceutical companies to invest in innovative new treatments.

And if fake breasts become, well, a little less fake, that's probably a win too.

"I do find it hard to stomach the idea that the profit motives are such that companies are willing to invest so much money into something so purely cosmetic."

It's 100 million dollars...some movies cost that much to make. It isn't a lot of money anymore, with the dollar barely worth the paper it's printed on. And, by the way, "profit motives are such that" many companies would be willing to grind babies into hamburger and eat them with ketchup. :)

Short-term profit is the only motive a corporation has.

Why is it that womens breast are constantly seen as inadequate - all the world over? And is there any wonder why girls have such bad self image? Geez - let's ALL strive to be a Page 3 girl! Forget getting an A in Math, Girls! Strive for a D in Breasts!

I don't group rehab due to accidents and disease in here - anyone who knows someone with an implant to replace a breast amputated fighting cancer knows we aren't talking the Pammy Anderson look.

Will there be no end to augmentation innovation and hard sell until all women feel bad and buy boobies? And only those low class no account women sport real ones?

It doesn't matter how "natural" the effect is, if you are shooting anything in breasts to make them bigger, by definition, they no longer look "natural"

Perhaps Big Pharm and Big Corp will figure out a way to replace all our primary and secondary genatalia so we will finally be pornaliscious and conform to the standard?