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Scientists Grow New Eyes (In Tadpoles)
MagnetDroid writes "Michael Zuber and his colleagues from SUNY Upstate Medical University have shown how to regrow frogs eyes using stem cells. Zuber's team genetically engineered the stem cells to express transcription factors that regulate eye development and, when they transplanted them into frog embryos that had had one eye removed, they regrew into fully functioning tadpole eyes. Unfortunately, the same trick doesn't work in mammals but Zuber hopes to find chemicals that activate the transcription factors without genetic engineering and says this might one day lead to new treatments for diseases linked to cell loss in the retina."
"Do you see what I see?" ...
Said the science experiment to his fellow frog.
"Do you hear what I hear?"
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
What has been seen, cannot been unseen.
If given the chance a frog would kill you and your whole family. Now is not the time to go soft on frogs.
Does this make anyone think of the 20-eyed frog from the polluted lake in The Simpson's Movie?
Well, they cut the eye off of the tadpole, it seems only polite to regrow it for them. Geez, the manners of young anonymous cowards these days...