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How To Grow a Head

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-not-like-that dept.

Taco Cowboy writes "British scientists have found a mechanism within our gene sequence that allows the growing of a new head — with brains, etc. The gene is tentatively known as smed-prep, and the information contained in smed-prep also makes the new cells appear in the right place and organise themselves into working structures."

4 of 355 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm sure if someone were to make a comment about blacks or another racially charged statement it would be modded funny, right? Right?

  2. Re:What??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The difference, of course, being that you can always choose not to be an ignorant cousin-humping redneck, whereas your colour is pretty much predefined prior to birth.

  3. Re:What??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Where do Tea Party members and Birthers fit in the spectrum?

  4. Re:Oh Sure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Great news everyone!