Slog - Comments on Re-Animator http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator The organs without a body: In late 2005, cardiac researcher Doris Taylor revived the dead. She rinsed rat hearts with detergent until the cells washed away and all that remained was a skeleton of tissue translucent as wax paper -- a ghost heart, as Taylor calls it. She injected the scaffold with fresh heart cells from newborn rats. Then she waited. What she witnessed four days later, once the cells had a chance to make themselves at home, was astonishing. "We could see these little areas that were beginning to beat," says Taylor, director of the University of Minnesota's Center... Copyright 2008 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:31:03 -0800 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:59:07 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by nos Vampires?

]]> nos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1174427 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1174427 Science Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:50:13 -0800 Comment by Super Jesse kurzweil, on schedule again.

]]> Super Jesse http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1174460 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1174460 Science Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:55:57 -0800 Comment by Mike in Olympia Well, this is good news for Dick Cheney, isn't it?

A rat heart would be a vast improvement.

]]> Mike in Olympia http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1174535 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1174535 Science Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:14:27 -0800 Comment by Furious I'm trying not to lose my head.

]]> Furious http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1174542 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1174542 Science Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:15:05 -0800 Comment by Levislade You've really gotta work on your copy/pasting skills there, Charles.

]]> Levislade http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1174559 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1174559 Science Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:17:41 -0800 Comment by scarecrow Dorothy
I don't like this forest! It's - it's dark and creepy!
Scarecrow
Of course, I don't know, but I think it'll get darker before it gets lighter.

]]> scarecrow http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1174563 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1174563 Science Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:18:50 -0800 Comment by konstantconsumer that's amazing. i don't like the idea of allowing people to live longer and longer, but a friend of mine is 33 and slowing dying from being born with a shitty heart. it'd be nice if he was able to live to 70 or so.

]]> konstantconsumer http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1174616 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1174616 Science Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:31:54 -0800 Comment by Max Charles- is it really necessary to turn everything into a comp lit essay?

]]> Max http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1174636 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1174636 Science Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:35:04 -0800 Comment by Josh http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/14/brains-reaction-to-h.html

We're already there. We just know know it yet, because we're living in it, and it looks normal to us.

]]> Josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1174936 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1174936 Science Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:08:28 -0800 Comment by ams you can do this without the washed heart scaffold- it's simply a matter of getting the cells at the right developmental stage so they have already been told to grow into a heart, and then giving them what they need to survive.

]]> ams http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1176053 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/eanimator#c1176053 Science Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:59:07 -0800