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Mice Get Human Breasts
cavehobbit writes "Nature.com reports: Lab mice have grown tissue more usually confined to a bra - lumps of human breast. The growths should help researchers work out how cancer develops. My only question is: Will Logitech or Microsoft be first to market...."
And once again, boobies fuel research.
VCRs, DVDs, high-speed internet... and now boob-laden mice. What'll they think of next?
Obviously this is Eisner's last, desperate attempt to make Disney more popular...
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Apple would make one with only one nipple and the rest of you would be up in arms about it! ;)
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
An interesting concept: since mouse breast cancer is sufficiently different from human breast cancer that the efficacy of the research is limited, make the breasts on the mouse more human so that the resulting cancer is more human... Basically the mouse -- or any other lab animal for that matter -- becomes the host for a human emulation layer for studying disease.
Is it just me, or does this makes make anyone else think of the WINE project: create a more Windows-like "tissue mass" on Linux in order to grow/study the cancer on a different platform...
With a soft breast-shaped mouse, we could teach half the population to be skilled computer users!
Straight males, lesbians, etc.
Just think of all those "Joe Users" just looking for a reason to click on one more thing, to mouse around just a bit more. They'd learn every single menu item in every app on their PC!
"Son, why don't you go play on the internet some more."
"OK Ma, But I've already finished it once."
Heck, I want one myself!
The new office catch-phrase: "Sorry, been mousing around, can't stand up for awhile.
Operator, give me the number for 911!
...a titmouse was a bird.
The corollary I was raised on:
The leading cause of cancer in rats is research.
You've left the lens cap on your brain again, haven't you Pinky?
Ah, yes, this is a very insightful post. Especially considering that you didn't say a thing.
The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Stay in the cage and fondle ourselves.
Breast cancer hits one in eight women at some time in their life. One in eight! That's a frightening prospect, yet this is the risk that faces our mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters.
This new tissue transplant procedure in mouse provides what, up until now, has not been available... living human breast tissue on which to experiment.
Despite massive funding of breast cancer research over the past 20+ years, we still know very little about the cellular mechanism by which breast cancer takes hold. I'd say this new procedure is a move in the right direction and gives the female population new hope.