Cool stuff brought to you by SCIENCE:
Researchers at Harvard University have successfully created a functioning, respirating human ‘lung’ on a chip in a lab. Made using human and blood vessel cells and a microchip, the translucent lung is far simpler in terms of observation than traditional, actual human lungs (for obvious reasons), in a small convenient package about the size of a pencil eraser. The researchers have demonstrated its effectiveness and are now moving toward showing its ability to replicate gas exchange between lung cells and the bloodstream. Down the road a bit more, the team hopes to produce other organs on chips, and hook them all up to the already operational heart on a chip.
AWESOME.
I’m sure the fundies will come out with “this is just the devil deceiving the scientists to trick them into thinking that man can create life” crap.
Nobody’s forcing the fundies to get AWESOME bionic lungs.
Their loss.
So El, answer me this, do you think bionic lungs are AWESOME?
A teensy bit, yeah.
Did you ever play Syndicate?
Oh, yes! Fully decked-out bots with miniguns pwned all. I did have quite a bit of difficulty with the last territory (the Atlantic seabase).
Gosh, I haven’t played that game in a decade, or more.
Recently I’ve been trying to get the old X-Com games to work on my XP lappy. Mixed success, awesome nostalgia.
I sort of updated the game by playing Laser Squad Nemesis or just went back in time as the original Laser Squad predates X-com …
If you buy the x-com games through steam (dirt cheap too) the install comes all ready to run on virtually any modern platform.
I was wondering about syndicate, because of the awesomeness of bionic organs.
I prefer my chips with a little ranch dip, but to each his own.
what actual intelligent design looks like
WIN!
Double WIN!
i dont know why, but i find this humorous especially till the very end http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UYcgotk48o&feature=player_embedded
i didnt know where to share this so heres a treat for you all