You, too, can collect amniotic stem cells at home!

If you can prep a turkey ... and have a liquid nitrogen freezer, you can HARVEST YOUR OWN STEM CELLS. Oh yeah, you need a placenta. So if you or yours are pregnant, convice the doc to save the placenta and ensure that you have stem cells saved, should any lifesaving therapies become available in the near future.

And yes, yes, yes, you can do this at home. Self-proclaimed "biotech geek blogger" Pimm shows you how, in 22 easy steps:

Here I would like to show, although I do not provide any warranty and can not give any guarantee, that isolating stem cells from the placenta is not more difficult than making a steak and with proper preparation, investment and timing you can do it even at home or in a rent lab. The process is ethically non-controversial since the placenta is usually discarded away after birth. Today, stem cell therapy is just a promising possibility, but in the not so distant future, self-aware citizens may manage their own stem cells, grow them in the garage, and store them in the fridge. If so, it could be a form of autonomous medical self-insurance. We are at the dawn of the biodiy movement backed by open source science, for the people.

This gem is making its way all across the Internets, and I found it via Boing Boing by way of the truly great Make, one of the very best new magazines out there, by the way.

Kids, this would be one helluva science project -- it'd get your butt straight into Harvard/Stanford/Cornell.