Ricki Yasha TarrThe period blood that's been treated with fear and disgust is also the most easily and non-invasively available place to find Regenerative Adult Stem Cells. You know, the kind scientists are studying to potentially grow organs with. What's even crazier is they didn't realize this until the early 2000's.
Michael Gemar@RickiTarr Didn’t realize, even though a major organ sloughs off part of itself and then rebuilds it every four weeks.
@michaelgemar I guess scientists weren't really thinking about it either lol
Hugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷@RickiTarr Wimmun stuff! Of course they weren't🤦♀️ @michaelgemar
Sparkymike@RickiTarr This is one of the most compelling reasons we should be recruiting young women to pursue careers in science and medicine, while providing reliable funding for both.
Emily Vale, Gendermancer@RickiTarr hooray for period blood! 🤘🎊🎉🤘
The Doctor@RickiTarr That's really cool. Do you have links to papers about that? I'd like to read up on this.
Data Ghost@DataGhost @RickiTarr Sweet! Thanks!
@drwho https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9856091/
Here's one I read
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WhichOne'sPink 🇫🇮@RickiTarr Probably spent their time researching mysterious blue liquid instead.
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Not to worry. Conservatives will think up some other reason to try to ban using it for research or medical purposes.
Not to worry. Conservatives will think up some other reason to try to ban using it for research or medical purposes.
draNgNon@RickiTarr astounding. even a minute's thought and it makes total sense
JacquelineThat's damn cool
Rana@RickiTarr Taboo and medical neglect working hand in hand as usual
Dienstag 🌻ANTIFASCHISMUS 👍🏼@RickiTarr
That's absolutely crazy!
That's absolutely crazy!
Jérôme Petazzoni@RickiTarr I gotta admit, I spent a solid minute rereading that toot wondering "how does one treat blood with fear and disgust, what kind of chemical process is that, do they mean you spice it upwith cortisol, adrenaline or whatever" before I got it. Perhaps I need coffee, or a new brain 😅
iwein@jpetazzo 🫂 you're not alone, and in our defense it _is_ technically ambiguous... But damn 🧠 wth🤣
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Franchesca@jpetazzo @RickiTarr or an autism diagnosis? 😜 I did the same and that’s definitely my issue 😅
Darcy Casselman@RickiTarr Is it only the blood that's been specially treated with fear and disgust, or will any period blood do?
curtmack@RickiTarr I read "period blood that's been treated with fear and disgust" like "a wooden deck that's been treated with mineral oil and weatherproofing" and I was so confused for a moment.
@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote@RickiTarr That's because they only study men…
Aatch@RickiTarr this makes it sound like there was some massive amount of time where we getting stem cells from various other sources, but it's not like stem cell research is some ancient practice held back by sexism. Other than bone marrow transplants, stem cell therapies are still pretty rare and even stem cell research is fairly new, only really getting going in the early 2000s.
The fact that it took a few years to check to see if menstrual blood was a viable source of stem cells is hardly surprising when you realise that they first needed to know that there was a reason to check.
@aatch @RickiTarr most people would consider a quarter of a century to be a massive amount of time, but I guess it depends on age and perspective (for me I keep having to remind myself that there is a quarter of a century between early 2000s and now!!!)
I think the point is people are less likely to consider things that they don’t themselves experience as interesting for study. More women = more chance a researcher thought to check other parts of the baby making infrastructure for stem cells.
tuv@aatch @RickiTarr because of the long process of scientific discovery, by the time anyone outside the field hear about any progress, it's usually decades after the pioneers started exploring, often without huge funding but with a lot of work done. There were experiments to treat Parkinson's disease with cell therapy in the 80s, but the results were underwhelming and researchers moved on.
@aatch The fact that it took that long for scientists to want to understand how the lining of the uterus regenerates something like 400 times is the issue, women's bodies have always been on the back burner of health science to the detriment of science as a whole.
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Interesting. What a treasure.
Interesting. What a treasure.
Pusher of Pixels@RickiTarr my brain read this as 'period blood [from women who've] been treated with fear and disgust"
And was thinking wow the GOP really has effects on people
Medea Vanamonde 🏳️⚧️@RickiTarr i know a group of feminist Jewish Mystics who use it to paint mystic symbols in their ritual environments.
Only Manly Men seem to be squicked by Lunar Seepage
Jess👾@MedeaVanamonde @RickiTarr Okay now I'm a trans woman, and no issues with periods or period products or discussions of periods or whatever. But I do kinda draw the line at smearing ANY bodily fluids around. I don't care which ones. Hell, even sweat - wipe that shit up after yourself.
It wasn’t exactly raw: the ladies did some processing to it first. Also it needed to be “extended”
@MedeaVanamonde @RickiTarr I'm not sure if that's better or worse. But idk, it's their space, they can do what they like with it.