Posted on 12/16/2011 6:26:02 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
Scientists have created a tadpole that can literally watch what it eats: The tadpole has an eye growing in its gut.
Led by developmental biologist Michael Levin of Tufts University in Medford, Mass., the researchers manipulated cells in the tadpoles gut to take on a specific electrical state. Those cells developed into a fully formed eye. Inducing just the right electrical state in cells can lead to eye growth anywhere on the body, the team reports online December 7 in Development.
Bizarre as the experiment sounds, it is a major step toward regenerating complex organs and limbs. One day, Levin says, someone who loses an arm or leg might be able to slip on a special sleeve that will electrically stimulate cells at the wound site to regrow the missing limb.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenews.org ...
A tadpole has an extra eye growing in its gut (indicated with red circle) thanks to Tufts University scientists who manipulated electrical signals in gut cells to spark eye development.Sherry Aw, Vaibhav Pai, M. Levin
Has anyone informed Kermit about this?
They won't want folks to sign off to "take my parts". Retail will be much more profitable.
Let’s focus on real beauty:
I sing the body electric,
The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them,
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.
Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?
And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead?
And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
There followed a discussion about other experiments now being conducted with veterans who have lost limbs, and the potential for regrowing them using stem cells.
Maybe this could be used to have the GOP in Congress grow a spine.
And there is some research on that, as well.
/johnny
Walt glowed in this one.
In grade school, I remember I ordered Planaria to slice up for a science fair to show regeneration... they clone themselves after slicing off the head or the tail, or any part of, etc. I was quite intrigued with this project.
[Quote]”The ability of these cells to become whatever tissue the body needs is very similar to the capacity of embryonic stem cells in humans and other vertebrates...”
Did George Washington Really Have Wooden Teeth?
Posted on October 5, 2011 by Dakota Dental
Great. Maybe someday we won't need to undergo colonoscopies. We can look in on our own innards.
Some day pretty son, you probably will grow new teeth. That one appears to be close to market even.
Shucks, I used to be...
Oh.. wait, you meant soon... ;)
/johnny
Unless they figure out how to grow lights in there, nyet.... Besides. I know what I eat. I don't want to see the intermediate processing. :)
/johnny
/johnny
One of the financial guys I was listening was saying that if you could live another 10 or 20 years that would be long enough to see replacement body parts grown with the patient’s own stem cells become the norm thus making people’s life spans even better.
They grew a trachea in the lab and transplanted to a patient successfully using his own stems cells, took a week to grow it.
http://www.courant.com/health/la-he-trachea-qanda-20110709,0,4418428.story
Good success in growing teeth in mice although not fed by the blood stream, they can be implanted and crowned.
Finally, there is hope for liberals!
Perhaps some day, that procedure can be used to grow them some brains.
.....eye growing in his gut, not butt
It is speculated that this may be part of the reason why President Washington always looks so stern in all of his portraits hes trying to hold his mouth shut. (Or perhaps its because he was turned down twice in marriage proposals to two different women...)...SCARY, you think? Does not a chick magnet make!
/LOL
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