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Awesome little mouse.
2005-08-31, 12:13 PM #1
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1754008,00.html

Apparently, this "miracle mouse" can regenerate lost limbs and organs. I'd look to see a video of this happening. Cool stuff.

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Article:
The researchers have also found that when cells from the test mouse are injected into ordinary mice, they too acquire the ability to regenerate.
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2005-08-31, 12:15 PM #2
*removes Echoman's fingers*

>.>

Seriously, though..that's pretty cool.
woot!
2005-08-31, 12:19 PM #3
I bet I wasn't the only one expecting something hardware related. :(
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2005-08-31, 12:20 PM #4
Originally posted by TimeWolfOfThePast:
I bet I wasn't the only one expecting something hardware related. :(


lol..no. I was thinking about my MX1000 when I checked the thread :p
woot!
2005-08-31, 12:22 PM #5
I thought someone had bought a mighty mouse!
2005-08-31, 12:23 PM #6
Why would you want to regenerate a lost limp?! I'd rather walk normal than with a limp. :p
Think while it's still legal.
2005-08-31, 12:33 PM #7
Originally posted by TimeWolfOfThePast:
I bet I wasn't the only one expecting something hardware related. :(


I know I was.
2005-08-31, 12:36 PM #8
Susceptibility to cancer +1000%...


EDT:Damn, I just checked PubMed, and the person Ellen Heber-Katz mentioned in the article has quite a few articles published regarding this particular mouse mutant.
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2005-08-31, 12:36 PM #9
I am so confident that we will never see this in use that if it ever IS, for some reason, I will personally cut off my own arm to test it.

This is just like all those other stupid online article where you hear about something cool, and it's never fricking heard of again. That is the single thing that pisses me off more than anything else in the universe. I'll start caring when this is working on humans.
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2005-08-31, 12:37 PM #10
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The experimental animal is unique among mammals in its ability to regrow its heart, toes, joints and tail.


Wait.. it can regrow its HEART?! This rather makes one wonder how it stays alive while doing so...
Stuff
2005-08-31, 12:39 PM #11
Well it's obviously talking about heart tissue. If someone just cut its heart out with a scalpel, then yeah, obviously it's going to die.
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2005-08-31, 1:03 PM #12
Originally posted by Freelancer:
This is just like all those other stupid online article where you hear about something cool, and it's never fricking heard of again. That is the single thing that pisses me off more than anything else in the universe.


Maybe if you signed up for some medical journal, magazine or newssite then probably you hear these projects more often. Their work isn't going to "disappear" if you don't hear about. Researchers aren't going to report daily on the progress of the work in the common newspaper or newsite, obviously.
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2005-08-31, 1:15 PM #13
Right, that makes sense. Hmmm... how long before we can put this in humans? I've always wanted amazing healing power without having to implant a Goa'uld symbiote.
Stuff
2005-08-31, 1:20 PM #14
Well, development for something like this for humans does take time. (a concept that some don't understand)
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2005-08-31, 1:30 PM #15
Originally posted by Echoman:
Maybe if you signed up for some medical journal, magazine or newssite then probably you hear these projects more often. Their work isn't going to "disappear" if you don't hear about. Researchers aren't going to report daily on the progress of the work in the common newspaper or newsite, obviously.


Day One: Put mouse under the cleaver. Waiting for leg to grow back.

Day Two: Wound is healed. Waiting for it to grow back.

Day Three: Still waiting.

Day Four: still waiting.

Etc.
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2005-08-31, 1:55 PM #16
Clearly they don't know what to do when they find things (like mice) such as this.

YOU HAVE TO USE THE GUIDE, PEOPLE!
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