From: Paul Grant (shade999@optonline.net)
Date: Mon Aug 04 2003 - 23:07:41 MDT
Anybody really up on stem cell research here?
Out of curiousity?
omard-out
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From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]
On Behalf Of Robert J. Bradbury
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 11:04 AM
To: extropians@extropy.org
Subject: Re: Maternal diet as a kind of genetic modification
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Anders Sandberg wrote:
> The gain in human intelligence and eventual ability of a good maternal
> feeding program might be far greater than many adult intelligence
> enhancement programs.
I believe that Leonid Gavrilov speculated in a recent JAAM article that
some of the extension in longevity we are observing may be due to better
maternal nutrition and/or nutrition during early development. It makes
sense if one postulates that it may lead to an increase in the pool of
available stem cells that one can utilize later in life.
So there may be both intelligence and longevity gains from better
nutrition.
R.
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