Science is really making leaps and bounds!

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Science is really making leaps and bounds!

Post by chocolate » 29th Aug, '13, 03:32

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.

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Post by Lili Von Shtupp » 29th Aug, '13, 07:45

Sorry, I couldn't resist!

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Post by Fat Bob » 29th Aug, '13, 07:55

Pretty fantastic. I know they are also making leaps and bounds with livers, hearts - these have a more tangible application as in matching organs for transplant. I always thought it would be possible, I'm wondering when the first one is put into a patient. 10 years?
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Post by Tas » 29th Aug, '13, 08:14

Will read article in second, but the brilliant thing on FBI observation around transplant organs will be possibilities of eliminating those nasty rejection medications as well. So cool.
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Post by Morrolan » 29th Aug, '13, 16:47

just imagine the use: a little human brain in your pc, fridge, tv, car, lifts in buildings, maybe even your dog or cat.

the possibilities are endless! :mrgreen:

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Post by chocolate » 29th Aug, '13, 19:52

I would hope sooner than 10 years but clinical trials do take a while. And yes, the other organs are probably a lot more useful, still it's pretty amazing they managed to "make a brain" - though far from perfect.


I don't think I'd like my pet having a human brain, however if my fridge could tell me what to cook for dinner based on the contents of my fridge using it's brain rather than mine that'd be something!!
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Post by Lili Von Shtupp » 30th Aug, '13, 13:47

chocolate wrote:if my fridge could tell me what to cook for dinner based on the contents of my fridge using it's brain rather than mine that'd be something!!
I would buy that fridge! :D
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Post by chocolate » 30th Aug, '13, 19:00

As I always tell Mr Chocolate when he says "I'll make dinner" then turns around and asks me "what do you want for dinner" - the point is not really the cooking of the dinner, but the thinking of what to cook for dinner!!! :)

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Post by steviestiles » 6th Sep, '13, 11:51

I read an article about lab grown liver and burger as well. All these lab grown stuffs reminds me of a movie called "The Island". Pretty scary if we can 'grow people' in the near future.

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Post by Lili Von Shtupp » 6th Sep, '13, 12:03

steviestiles wrote:I read an article about lab grown liver and burger as well. All these lab grown stuffs reminds me of a movie called "The Island". Pretty scary if we can 'grow people' in the near future.
Oh, I really liked that movie. Good science fiction.
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