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RemoteUser -> Genetic Modification (7/31/2012 12:46:19 PM)

Why anyone would want to dissect a rat and reanimate its heart into an artificial sea-dwelling creature, I'm not sure. And yet, here it is.

They do cite testing heart medication, but that's a long way to go to do so, innit...?

I'll look for more weird things like this. Now I'm curious.



ARIES83 -> RE: Genetic Modification (7/31/2012 2:38:08 PM)

Thanks for finding that remote



DomKen -> RE: Genetic Modification (7/31/2012 3:37:21 PM)

This is really very exciting.

It's pretty simple to extract a small number of living heart cells from a person and grow them in vitro. However that results in a lump of cells and is of limited utility. However if those same cells were grown on a silicon sheet, as was done in the OP, those new healthy heart cells could potentially be transplanted into a heart to replace damaged tissue. It would require a pacemaker to make the new tissue beat in rthymn, no nerves, with the rest of the heart but that is already being done.

This could then serve as a treatment for people with various heart disease issues that presently requires a transplant to treat. It's probably a generation or more from use in humans but it shows what may be possible in the relative short term.

Also I'm not seeing any indication there was any genetic modification going on.



ARIES83 -> RE: Genetic Modification (7/31/2012 4:48:22 PM)

It's more a bio-mechanic thing but still
this type of thing has unlimited potential,
stuff repairing a heart, build a new one
and swap it out, and not just the heart,
any organ and while your at it, I'd like a
car that runs off food scraps and and heals
when I have a fender bender!

-ARIES



littlewonder -> RE: Genetic Modification (7/31/2012 7:15:44 PM)

It's even DIY!! [:D]

http://www.psfk.com/2009/01/diy-car-runs-on-garbage.html



FrostedFlake -> RE: Genetic Modification (7/31/2012 8:50:27 PM)

I couldn't load the vid, don't know why. If it is just "It's MOVING!!!" I guess that's ok.

My reaction : 45% COOL!, 55% Shades of Gray (Matter).

I am probably being too squeamish.



ARIES83 -> RE: Genetic Modification (8/1/2012 1:36:36 AM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: littlewonder

It's even DIY!! [:D]

http://www.psfk.com/2009/01/diy-car-runs-on-garbage.html


Reminds me of that thing on the back of the delorean
in back to the future 2.



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