Injured Brazilian Wolf Is First Wild Animal Treated With Stem Cells

Wow, that looks like a really bad photoshop job on the leg there.

seriously, i look and look at it and it has to be photoshop. maybe this is some kind of joke... but if this is a joke then that means... time for blue pill

We will have Bonorino to thank when las chupacabras take over the bread-basket of South America.

Better figure out a way to fix habitat loss and reduce mankind's damage. There won't be any wild animals left to test medicine with soon.

Why does the article not state whether the wolf was treated with adult stem cells or embryonic stem cells?

Given that the most promising stem cell scenarios involve adult stem cells, but that the general public probably isn't even aware that adult stem cells exist because embryonic stem cell research has been so propagandized by the left-wing, pro-abortion media, it is very interesting that this article does not tell whether the stem cells in question are adult or embryonic. This is good reason to suspect biased reporting.

dually: well said

Jesus christ guys, its either a cast or a bandage and its white. and that part of the photo is overexposed.

Once stem cell is perfected, we could cure all diseases, we could rebuild our bodies to live almost forever. It will require incineration of the body to stop one from living forever. I for one would love to live forever. Cant wait.

it doesn't even look like a fox, it looks more like a hyena they died red.

*wolf*

I thought hyena as well. Has there been a formal genetic comparison study of the specie that would tell us whether it's closer to the hyena or the wolf? Knowing Latino machismo well; I'm sure they'd rather have us call it a wolf, but I know that a lot of Brazilians have to wonder about this critter too.

I can imagine professional sports wanting to get ahold of the technology to use on their players.

Imagine a player injured in preseason and designated for IR then coming back from a devastating ACL injury in about 3 or 4 weeks! Or from a torn pectoral muscle in 2 weeks!

It's possible with stem cell technology.

We can build him better, stronger, faster.

Sad it won't happen in our lifetimes due to politics/ethics.

@ gizmowiz: Yeah, imagine if pitchers and quarterbacks weren't forced to retire in their prime nearly so often from Tommy Johns surgery. Now let's get really out there and imagine normal humans getting some benefits out of this too. I say this because I remember the speed and forcefulness of the two techs that came running into my wife's delivery room and damm near ripped the umbilical cord loose before I could cut it at my youngest child's birth. They way they ran back out of there without even a single peep of censure or caution from her doctor or any of the nurses once they got their embryonic stem cells that are supposedly illegal to use. I suspect that rare blood type and rarer Rh factor just might have had something to do with it; but do you think I may just be paranoid?

why does its left leg look like it was made with MSPaint?

dually: both adult and embryonic stem cell research are and have been covered in a wide variety of reporting outlets. It is you who are attempting to spread misinformation by claiming otherwise. You imagining biased reporting is just your own bias coming out. Your claim that adult stem cell research is the most promising as a given becomes itself suspect in the process. Just claiming something doesn't make it so. And trying to say that you know so much that the general public doesn't know just makes you sound pompous and presumptuous. By lacking respect, you lose respect.

By following the link to that article, one can see the bandage in a video and how the lighting source sometimes overexposed the bandaged area. That may be why the photo in the popsci article looks bleached out or Photoshopped.

I am wondering whether the stem cells are autologous or exogenous??