Brain cells regrown

[keith]

This is the present and future of stem cell research - stem cells taken from your own body:

Researchers create new functioning brain cells from stem cells of living adults

"In cooperation with the University of California at Los Angeles, Westerlund and other Swedish researchers have inserted the extracted human stem cells into the spinal marrow of rats .... the cells continued to divide and create new cell neurons."

Human brain cells ... growing in rats!

 

[GROUCHO MARX]

Thanks for that, Keith.

 

[kenw]

now we're dumbing down rats....

this opens up a ton of possibilities, at least as far as smartaleck comments goes....

bring 'em on!

 

[Dan4510]

One wonders, if the brain cells present are barely functioning would adding any more of them make any difference to an idiot?

If you undergo this procedure, would your craving for cheese increase?

Dan

 

[Gary Allan]

Well, why don't they try it the other way around? See if the "reptile" part of our brain can be outdone by the "rodent" part.

 

[Al]

What I liked about this story was the link to this story.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,16064442-13762,00.html

"Swearing parrot banned
July 27, 2005
From: Agence France-Presse

Macaw ... who's a naughty boy? / file A FOUL-mouthed parrot previously owned by a lorry driver has been banished from public areas in a British animal sanctuary after repeatedly embarrassing his keepers.

Barney, a five-year-old Macaw, is now kept indoors at Warwickshire Animal Sanctuary in Nuneaton, central England, when outsiders visit after abusing dignitaries with swearword-littered insults.
"He's told a lady mayoress to f--- off and he told a lady vicar: 'And you can f--- off as well'," sanctuary worker Stacey Clark said.

Nor did the forces of law and order escape, she added.

"Two policemen came to have a look at the centre. He told them: 'And you can f--- off you two w---ers'."

Clark said sanctuary workers believed Barney either picked up the phrases from television or was taught them by his previous owner, a lorry driver who emigrated to Spain.


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"He does say 'Hello, big boy' and 'Thank you' when you give him a biscuit," she added.
"But it's mainly naughty words and always to the wrong people. We're trying to teach him not to swear. Macaws are very intelligent birds."