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Blind Mice See Again After Cell Transplants
Korbinus writes, "Scientists have managed to restore vision in blind mice by transplanting light-sensitive cells in their eyes, cells on their way to become photoreceptors. This might be a important step towards new treatments of eye disease."
I wonder if this procedure will work for Republicans? :-)
Thr^H^H^HTwo blind mice.
...and here i thought the future of vision was a gold-plated bananaclip visor.
"Holy crap, look at the size of that carving knife! Run!"
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Now if they could just help them regenerate the tails the farmers wife cut off the mice will be whole again.
I guess they don't have any excuse now.
I for one welcome our new seeing mouse overlords.
I have two eyes, I have two feet.
Sony was right, Cell can do anything!
Surgeons have succeeded in transplanting a frog's brain into a cloned copy of The Handsome Prince's body.
This comes after last weeks news that Little Miss Muffet didn't know what a "tuffet" was at the time of the incident with the spider, and that her subsequent testimony was completely fabricated by her lawyers.
Three blind mice, three blind mice,
See how they run, see how they run,
They all ran after the lab tech's wife,
were given new sight with one gene splice,
saw her and ran for the rest of their life.
The three spliced mice.
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(No offense to the lab tech's wives out there. =))
What if somthing goes wrong & the cells become cancerous ?
Would someone have to walk around looking like this ?
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.