Student Invents Silicone "Tampons" To Harvest Monthly Menstrual Stem Cells | Popular Science

Mademoicell Chelsea Briganti

Women who bemoan their once-a-month curse may soon have reason to appreciate it: Chelsea Briganti, a senior at the Parsons New School for Design, has developed a tampon-like kit made from silicone that collects and stores adult stem cells from [...]

Full article at popsci.com

It's cool if this works the way it's meant to and leads to new treatments and cures. I must (or more accurately, I choose to) point out that menstrual cups have been around a long time, and are very different, much cleaner, 'greener', and less smelly and gross, than either tampons or pads. Still, they've never harvested stem cells before. :)

Posted via email from Moments of Awareness