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Miscellaneous What-Have-You => That's interesting, man. That's fucking interesting => Topic started by: DigitalBuddha on July 23, 2012, 06:33:58 PM

Title: Franken-jelly
Post by: DigitalBuddha on July 23, 2012, 06:33:58 PM
Franken-jelly

(http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/09/ScienceNOW_logo_330.jpg)

Now Frankenstein can have a pet jellyfish. A team of scientists has taken the heart cells of a rat, arranged them on a piece of rubbery silicon, added a jolt of electricity, and created a ?Franken-jelly.? Just like a real jellyfish, the artificial jelly swims around by pumping water in and out of its bell-shaped body. Researchers hope the advance can someday help engineers design better artificial hearts and other muscular organs.

Far fucking out, man!
- http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/artificial-jellyfish-heart-cells/

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--oXnGUz0B2g/Tg9J7sMLCcI/AAAAAAAACtc/oQONjTMBmI4/s1600/NewFrankenJellyGID.jpg)