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Cthulhu
09-02-2005, 11:23 AM
Limb-regenerating mice have been bred in an Australian lab. (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16417002%255E30417,00.html)
First mammals to have regeneration capabilaties, yadda yadda, revolutionize modern medicine, yadda, possibilities for nigh-immortality in humans, yadda yadda.
steve
09-03-2005, 02:24 AM
Sweet, where's my adamantium?
pygmypiranha
09-03-2005, 02:56 AM
How is it possible for a mouse to stay alive if it is regrowing a heart?
steve
09-03-2005, 03:30 AM
If you read the article, you'd know that they only regrew part of their heart. The scientists froze part of it using our new word of the day: a cryoprobe!
Tiny
09-03-2005, 08:04 AM
Bah i read about this crap freshman year when they were growing human ears on rats. Old news
pygmypiranha
09-03-2005, 03:55 PM
Umm... no not old news. Growing ears on rats is old news. Rats regrowing their own limbs or their own organs is new news.
Max Power
09-03-2005, 05:12 PM
I regrew my hand once after having burned off in a fight with a dragon. He was drunk.
Cthulhu
09-04-2005, 06:55 PM
The ears were more of a cartiledge growth triggered by various materials planted under the skin of the mice. This is a genetic mutation.
One of these things, if we can adapt it to humans, can make not just prostetics, but organ transplants a thing of the past.
Max Power
09-05-2005, 04:49 PM
"Pumpkin, that's modern medicine. Advances that keep people alive that should have died along time ago, back when they lost what made them people. "
Cthulhu
09-10-2005, 02:34 PM
"Pumpkin, that's modern medicine. Advances that keep people alive that should have died along time ago, back when they lost what made them people. "
Most excellent quote.
Here's another genetic-mapipulation link: first semi-cloned baby attempt. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/womenfamily.html?in_article_id=361816&in_page_id=1799) UK courts gave permission to try it. Its not a prue clone, but they use the same technique. Its an opening of the floodgates.
So going to change my major to biology.
Max Power
09-10-2005, 06:42 PM
Those zany pro-lifers. They're like Washington Generals fans. Dude, your team can't win. Sooner or later Death (or one of the Globe Trotters) is gonna throw an alley-oop with one guy climbing up a ladder. There's no defense for that.