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In a novel experiment, brain-like human tissue implanted in rat brains influenced the rodents' behavior
nbc ^ | 10/12/2022 | Aria Bendix

Posted on 10/12/2022 4:05:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The researchers injected the human tissue into the rats’ somatosensory cortexes — regions that receive and process sensory information like touch or pain. After about two weeks of training, the rats began to lick a spout in search of water whenever the researchers stimulated the human neurons (they did this using blue light lasers). The researchers also used a puff of air to prod the rats’ whiskers, then observed how the human neurons responded.

After the transplants, he said, the human neurons grew to six times their original size over about eight months, making up roughly one-third of a single hemisphere in the rat brains.

The rats didn’t show signs of health issues like seizures or epilepsy, which the researchers had worried might arise. More than 70% were alive one year after the transplants.

The study is the latest example of an attempt to transplant human cells into animals. This line of scientific inquiry started decades ago, and some past tries have been successful: In 2006, developmental biologist Ali Brivanlou and a team of researchers at The Rockefeller University showed that they could grow human embryos in mouse tissue. Then in 2013, a group of Belgian researchers transplanted human neurons into newborn mice, creating functional brain circuits.

In 2018, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies implanted human brain-like structures in mice, producing results similar to the Stanford study. But they used adult mice, whereas the Stanford researchers chose newborn rats in order to see how the human neurons integrated with the rodents’ developing brain circuits.

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1 posted on 10/12/2022 4:05:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Don't we already have some chimeras like that?

Rat + Human = Politician

2 posted on 10/12/2022 4:07:15 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: BenLurkin

They stopped being interested in food, and began incessantly checking their teeny tiny little cell phones that were given to them.


3 posted on 10/12/2022 4:07:27 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: BenLurkin

Oh, brave new world....


4 posted on 10/12/2022 4:09:21 PM PDT by quikstrike98
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Ok. So how much did this idiocy cost and what do they hope to accomplish?


5 posted on 10/12/2022 4:10:16 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Kick every last democrat out of office! )
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To: BenLurkin

Where did they get the human neurons?


6 posted on 10/12/2022 4:12:11 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: BenLurkin

As in the days of Noah ...


7 posted on 10/12/2022 4:13:34 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: BenLurkin

The world is getting sicker and sicker. God help us.


8 posted on 10/12/2022 4:14:50 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: BenLurkin
the rats began to lick a spout in search of water whenever the researchers stimulated the human neurons

Maybe the human neutrons are instructing them to 'attack' the spout. If they ever get loose, look out.

[Don't you guys -- scientists -- ever watch horror movies?]


9 posted on 10/12/2022 4:18:22 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: BenLurkin

So did they become Democrats or stop being Democrats?


10 posted on 10/12/2022 4:23:38 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Fungi

Where did they get the human neurons?

/\

Probably

Baby parts r us division of

Planned deParenthood.

I hear they have a new side gig in Calif

Planned Genderhood.


11 posted on 10/12/2022 4:30:52 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: BenLurkin

Building better democrats. Ones with actual partially human brains.


12 posted on 10/12/2022 4:31:16 PM PDT by sjmjax
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Rat + Human Demon = Politician

That's more like it.

13 posted on 10/12/2022 4:31:53 PM PDT by Bullish (Rot'sa Ruck America. )
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To: BenLurkin

Rats stood on their hind legs and had James Cagney accents and said “You dirty humans.”


14 posted on 10/12/2022 4:31:56 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger

lol...


15 posted on 10/12/2022 4:33:51 PM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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To: MHGinTN

As in the days of Noah ...

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Back then it took fallen angels mating with humans ..

( that then we’re thrown on the pit till the great whitethrone judgement)

to create a nephiliam.

Nowdays,,, we make nephiliam for the fallen angels...

so they don’t have to thrown in the pit till the end

this might be what scripture was aluding to
when it said the days had to be cut short or no flesh
( original human flesh ? )
would survive.

Maranatha please.


16 posted on 10/12/2022 4:37:24 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: BenLurkin
Island of Doctor Moreau House of Pain.

17 posted on 10/12/2022 4:41:10 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: BenLurkin

Hummmmm
If it works on rats, it may work on D’rat politicians.

Truly truly we live for hope.


18 posted on 10/12/2022 4:50:16 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: MHGinTN
GMTA
Gen. 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
12 And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with violence through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

For those who don't know the back story.

19 posted on 10/12/2022 5:14:31 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: BenLurkin

This is how the democrats will use in the 2044 Presidential election.


20 posted on 10/12/2022 5:21:39 PM PDT by daku
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