Rat Limb Grown in the Lab
Now this is a true game changer. Can you imagine?
From the article:
"When electrically stimulated, the muscle fibers contracted with a strength 80 percent of what would be seen in newborn animals. What’s more, the blood vessels filled with blood.
“We have shown that we can maintain the matrix of all of these tissues in their natural relationships to each other, that we can culture the entire construct over prolonged periods of time, and that we can repopulate the vascular system and musculature,” said Harald Ott, MD, of the MGH Department of Surgery and the Center for Regenerative Medicine and senior author of the research paper, which appeared in this week’s journal Biomaterial."
God, I love science and research.
From the article:
"When electrically stimulated, the muscle fibers contracted with a strength 80 percent of what would be seen in newborn animals. What’s more, the blood vessels filled with blood.
“We have shown that we can maintain the matrix of all of these tissues in their natural relationships to each other, that we can culture the entire construct over prolonged periods of time, and that we can repopulate the vascular system and musculature,” said Harald Ott, MD, of the MGH Department of Surgery and the Center for Regenerative Medicine and senior author of the research paper, which appeared in this week’s journal Biomaterial."
God, I love science and research.
Jan
in the morning!!! -- j
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You need a good news tidbit?
I am having a good time imagining a disembodied leg chasing you around the house every morning, trying to boot you in the butt.
Jan, entertained
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I think that movie is one of the reasons I am 'spider adverse'...
Jan
(Killed a rattlesnake over the weekend. A friend of mine cooked it (Since I was working on a dog-run/chicken-coop project; I had killed it outside her front door, and she cut its head off with garden shears.) - she barbecued it. She says that next time she will use oil instead of a dry rub since it is wild meat. It was better than the last rattlesnake I killed, which was skinny and stringy, but I think she is right about the oil. The builder who was with us when this happened was rather bemused.)
Jan, likes snakes...sometimes sauteed
First stage: Give everyone back the limb that failed to grow or had to be amputated.
Second stage: Wings.
Jan
I wonder when someone's going to tackle new skin for a burn victim or an old man's wrinkles?
some work which is quite similar, if my memory
is working. -- j
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Jan, wing salesman
Jan
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The potential is staggering.
Now for my point. With all the chat I have seen over “No God”, and that “Big Bang” and “Evolution” caused all this, why don’t rats, automatically grow limbs back when severed? Why don’t people?
I am surprised that these limbs did not just evolve out of nothing all by themselves with scientists standing around saying WOW look how that evolved.
Universe and all life, and EVERYTHING with its intricacies and infinite complexities coupled with the TOTAL precision makes the Universe an incalculably value higher in complexity than all the efforts put into growing a rat limb, and people still have the audacity to think there is no intelligent design in our universe.
May as well take a comment from Obama toward the scientists. “You did not build that!!!”
Hence it must have evolved meaning these scientists were never needed or required to complete this.
Every time I see major scientific advancement, my Belief in God is even further solidified, for if our universe was not Created by intelligence, then everything man does, man gets no credit since it must have simply evolved from nothing, simply because it “needed” to exist.
To oversimplify this. 0 + 0 = 0. Zero * anything is still Zero.
Notice the first mention of god is yet again from someone living in terror that the next facts will further demonstrate the scientific basis of magic.
This is warning 1 for highjacking a post.
I think Scientific advances are wonderful, and to be lauded. Cloning, Stem Cells, all those things that intelligent scientists who study their entire lives to create is splendid. These advances however did not EVOLVE!!! They were created and designed.
The possibilities for you to have your own heart clones or grown for replacement in the event of heart disease, provides opportunities people only thought of in science fiction 20 years ago. 20 years ago they would have called you unreasonable and lunatic crazy for even suggesting this could be done.
Also your intolerance of other REASONABLE opinions by implying I am not rational and reasonable is, well shall we say, not a very open minded, and a bit dogmatic and reminiscent of other cultures that display excessive levels of intolerance for other views.
If you wish to talk about supernatural phenomena somehow demonstrated by science, please do so on your own posts. This post concerns the significant accomplishment of some scientists using knowledge of scientific reality and scientific experiments confirming that reality to advance the knowledge and abilities of man.
This is strike two.