That's awesome, but what stopped the mouse legs from rotting adn falling off while they grew new arteries?
Maybe the electrocution bit also let them absorb oxygen through their skin?
5 possibly was funnier in my head than in the execution.
Links to a paper in Nature Nanotechnology which I can't read...
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.
It's like you tried to sound less like a Nazi doctor, and you were doing well until the last sentence.
It's alive allowing DNA into cells that wouldn't normally allow DNA into them.
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.
That does seem pretty cool. Last time I looked at stem cell research even changing adult cells to pluripotent ones was a challenge.
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
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.
Hasn't a movie of Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies already been made?
"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."
Molly Keane already did the updated Austen thing, see Good Behaviour, covers the vampire thing quite adequately too.
PD James wrote a murder mystery with the same characters six years later, and that's been adapted for TV.
I had no idea P.D. James was that old.
|| So, should we be looking into whether we can get Spain to take Guam back? |>
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.