Re: Nerds!

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That's awesome, but what stopped the mouse legs from rotting adn falling off while they grew new arteries?


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 7:03 AM
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I was wondering the same thing.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 7:04 AM
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Link?


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 7:05 AM
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Maybe the electrocution bit also let them absorb oxygen through their skin?


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 7:06 AM
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Link.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 7:07 AM
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Comment.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 7:11 AM
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5 possibly was funnier in my head than in the execution.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 7:12 AM
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Here you go:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/07/nanochip-could-heal-injuries-or-regrow-organs-with-one-touch-say-researchers

Links to a paper in Nature Nanotechnology which I can't read...


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 7:13 AM
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The electric part is just a technique, electroporation, that allows things that normally wouldn't get into cells (eg DNA because allowing other DNA into a cell is generally bad). Really this is a form of gene therapy or cellular reprogramming. More controlled and localized than the alternate method of using viruses.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 7:33 AM
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It's like you tried to sound less like a Nazi doctor, and you were doing well until the last sentence.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 7:38 AM
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It's alive allowing DNA into cells that wouldn't normally allow DNA into them.


Posted by: Opinionated Dr. Frankenstein | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 7:43 AM
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Also, 10 is funny.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 7:48 AM
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Why thank you sir.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 8:02 AM
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Full text link: http://rdcu.be/uQwH


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 8:59 AM
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Fixed point.


Posted by: puli | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 9:40 AM
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Damn it.


Posted by: puli | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 9:41 AM
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Thanks!

I think the answer to 1 is that they only severed the femoral artery, which is the main artery supplying the limb but not the only one, so they reduced perfusion but not to zero.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 9:44 AM
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That does seem pretty cool. Last time I looked at stem cell research even changing adult cells to pluripotent ones was a challenge.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 9:44 AM
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OT: ITV is planning a "dark and adult" remake of Pride and Prejudice. (Not directed by Christopher Nolan, alas.)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40860644


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 9:50 AM
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a media conglomerate in possession of the rights to a beloved property, must be in want of a grimdark version of it.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 12:15 PM
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Hasn't a movie of Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies already been made?


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 12:50 PM
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"Pemberley. Shit. Two weeks, and I'm still only in Pemberley. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a fortune must be in want of a mission, and for my sins they gave me one."


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 1:47 PM
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Molly Keane already did the updated Austen thing, see Good Behaviour, covers the vampire thing quite adequately too.


Posted by: dairy queen | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 2:15 PM
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PD James wrote a murder mystery with the same characters six years later, and that's been adapted for TV.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 2:30 PM
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I had no idea P.D. James was that old.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 2:32 PM
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|| So, should we be looking into whether we can get Spain to take Guam back? |>


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 3:26 PM
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Japan might be interested.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 3:31 PM
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Possibly a nuclear holocaust on Guam would wipe out the brown tree snakes before they make it here, but more likely it will just mutate them into giant, Godzilla-like brown tree snakes.


Posted by: DaveLHI | Link to this comment | 08- 8-17 4:43 PM
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