Brain grows in rat thigh after transplant.

[Star of Penumbra]

Go science.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_112313,0004.htm

 

[Ginny]

oh wow...pretty cool....though i'm stuck on the visual of the adult rat thigh...with a baby rat head poking out the muscle...mouthing, "Mommaaa!"

 

[horny_giraffe]

Interesting. I wonder when we'll get a human volunteer for a body transplant. And you thought a face transplant was tricky...

 

[islandman]

I don't get this part......

The brain grew and the mouth of the baby rat even moved as if trying to drink milk, it said.

Okay, so the brain of the baby rat is in the thigh of the adult rat, yes? So, why would the mouth of the baby rat move? It's body no longer has a brain.

See my dilemna?

 

[Ginny]

i was a wee bit puzzled myself....being such a scientific guru and all....i kinda pictured the skull open...brain out....attached to vessels in thigh....rest attached to baby rat...kinda hanging out....had to be some connection to the baby.....hmmmm....maybe penumbra knows.....

 

[Star of Penumbra]

i was a wee bit puzzled myself....being such a scientific guru and all....i kinda pictured the skull open...brain out....attached to vessels in thigh....rest attached to baby rat...kinda hanging out....had to be some connection to the baby.....hmmmm....maybe penumbra knows.....

Go back an read it again real careful-like.

The scientists... removed the head of a 12-day-old rat and connected its blood vessels to those in the thigh of the adult rat,

Basically they grafted the head onto another rat.

 

[islandman]

Go back an read it again real careful-like.



Basically they grafted the head onto another rat.

Yes, but:

It took the Japanese scientists 90 minutes to graft the rat’s brain into the thigh, but the organ survived and its neurological functions developed after the transplant.


So, head still makes more sense, especially if the baby's mouth is moving. Athena it is not.

 

[Ginny]

Go back an read it again real careful-like.

see....i knew Pen would know.....<giggling>.....thanks Pen....

 

[horny_giraffe]

... Athena it is not.

I suppose that if I was classically educated I'd know this one. But I don't. Could you explain this allusion?

 

[HeavyStick]

What's the chances of signing Redwavetard up for a brain transplant?

 

[tortoise]

I suppose that if I was classically educated I'd know this one. But I don't. Could you explain this allusion?

Athena sprang from the head of Zeus.

 

[islandman]

I suppose that if I was classically educated I'd know this one. But I don't. Could you explain this allusion?

My mistake. Dionysus was born from Zeus' thigh. Athena was born from Zeus' skull.

edited to add:

Zeus rescued the fetus of his son from the ashes, slashed a hole in his thigh, stowed the fetus away in the wound, and sewed it up. And in nine months a baby was born from the thigh of his father, Dionysus, god of ecstasy, wine, and the theater. The young god was said to have been twice born: once in fire from the body of his mother, and once from the thigh of his father. But it was also said to mean born first as the young god Zagreus and once again under the name Dionysus.

 

[tortoise]

oh wow...pretty cool....though i'm stuck on the visual of the adult rat thigh...with a baby rat head poking out the muscle...mouthing, "Mommaaa!"

Freakish rodents rock!

 

[Problem Child]

What's the chances of signing Redwavetard up for a brain transplant?

What if they sewed REDWAVE's head onto Donkeydick's ass...and then cut the whole mess off and stapled it to ppman's nutsack? It'd be enough of a nightmare for three more Godzilla movies!


Somebody call the Japanese!

 

[Guest]

Japanese scienticians will go to hell - Religious nut

Make a note to send a letter bomb to Japan - Radical Animal Rights activist aka nut

That Lose weight advert on the right hand side made tomato juice goes into my nose - me

 

[seXieleXie]

Somebody call the Japanese!

what should i call them?

 

[horny_giraffe]

Thanks tortoise, islandman.

 

[HeavyStick]

What if they sewed REDWAVE's head onto Donkeydick's ass...and then cut the whole mess off and stapled it to ppman's nutsack? It'd be enough of a nightmare for three more Godzilla movies!


Somebody call the Japanese!

1998 Godzilla with Matthew Broderick, 2001 Godzilla with Tsuyoshi Yamada, or
1969 Bambi Meets Godzilla? (runtime 2 mintues.)

 

[Star of Penumbra]

Bump.