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Cell Division Reversed for the First Time
SubtleGuest writes "Gary J. Gorbsky, Ph.D., a scientist with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, has found a way to reverse the process of cell division.
The discovery could have important implications for the treatment of cancer, birth defects and numerous other diseases and disorders. Gorbsky's findings appear in the April 13 issue of the journal Nature.
"No one has gotten the cell cycle to go backwards before now," said Gorbsky. "This shows that certain events in the cell cycle that have long been assumed irreversible may, in fact, be reversible."
In the lab, Gorbsky and his OMRF colleagues were able to control the protein responsible for the division process, interrupt and reverse the event, sending duplicate chromosomes back to the center of the original cell, an event once thought impossible.
Here is a video of it happening."
is this video playing backwards?
And here is the video of cell division. only its played in reverse.
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Mark
It might not be too late to 'take back' that decision you made to have children 10 years ago?
There must be a Cell processor story somewhere that Slashdot could post. That would make it three cell stories in a row. It's funny becuase it's repeated.
I'm quite curious, could someone explain what sort of technology is used to observe chemical reactions at such a small level? (such as that in the video)
So one cell gets split and then they merge back together again and again?
Just like Eminem and Kim?
"a scientist with the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, has found a way to reverse the process of cell division."
Eeewww!! Grosss!!
Anybody else also reminded of those "see me eat my hamburger in reverse" videos?
It's easy to lower the cancer death rate; make sure people die of something else first!
Males will all eventually get prostate cancer; the rates are rising because they aren't dieing of the things we traditionally died of in the past - communicable diseases, war, accident and heart disease.
If we got out and started a good war, fewer people would die of cancer! Think of Iraq as a big anti-cancer crusade.
Like my raincoat!
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THERE IS ANOTHER SYSTEM
I can use this cell undevision (fusion?) technique to revert myself to a giant sperm. And I'll be smart enough to choose the best genes before finding myself an equally oversized egg to start over. Who wouldn't want in-home eugenics?
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
The inverse of division is multiplication, so cell division is its own inverse.
*Kryten's head explodes*
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
The question is will they want to, given a reasonable possibility that half of the population will police the other armed with shark-mounted, Linux-running lasers?
Now we can prove evolution. Just reverse all the cells back to their previous state until we get back to the original single-cell organism.
OK. Sure, nobody would be around any more to see it, but that's beside the point.
It would also be a great opportunity for Earth to pass on that whole human mistake.
You never really know how close to the edge you can go until you fall off.
WHY WOULD YOU POST A VIDEO THAT NOBODY CAN WATCH?
Here is the ASCII version:
frame 1: O........O
frame 2: O.....O
frame 3: O..O
frame 4: OO
frame 5: O)
frame 6: O
Table-ized A.I.