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Scientists Derive Gelatin From Human Tissue
An anonymous reader writes "Conventional gelatin is made from collagen inside animals' skin and bones, however a group of researchers has managed to replace that animal base with a human one. The process involves taking human gelatin genes and inserting them into a strain of yeast, which can be cultivated to grow gelatin with controllable features. Jinchun Chen, the leader of the study, and his colleagues believe they can scale this process up to produce large amounts of human-based gelatin for medical uses. The research appears in the American Chemical Society's Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry."
Now you know.
Gross, but delightfully delicious!
it's soylent jello
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I'll be able to find Soylent Green in my local supermarket, next to the Jello!
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Why does my jello taste like Grandma?
Depends.
This means I can finally eat Jello made from Bill Cosby!
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Will this type of gelatin be acceptable to use in vegan food? No animal products, just us. Is that ok?
Why does my jello taste like Grandma?
How do you know what Grandma tastes like?
Now, small children will get a taste for human flesh. You've doomed us all, you bastards
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There's always room for Jell-O.
If they could derive human tissue from gelatin, that would be news.
Human gelatin!
I think they found the recipe from the site of the Donner party.
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The Pohl house special: Chicken Little.
The next time I get a cold, I can replace all my lost phlegm with no fear of the dreaded phlegm rejection syndrome.
It means that...
humans are animals!
[dramatic music]
[open-mouthed yawn]
Well, the summery is misleading. Fact is that we've had the technology to make gelatin from human tissue for millennia. The new development here is that unlike the previous method, this does not require hacking up corpses and rendering them in a pot.
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Briefly mentioned in the summary: Medical uses. If you can make gelatin that is completely human bio-compatable, you can use it freely in the human body. Infuse it with drugs and you have a time-release capsule that can be implanted. Build it around shattered bone, and you've got a scaffolding that you can re-grow bone on. It'd even make a decent short-term replacement skin in some cases.
Bio-compatable, bio-degradable, flexible, and about the same density as most human tissue. There's lots of uses for that.
'Sensible' is a curse word.
In case beef/pork allergies exist, this is the solution.
Now, if they could only find a way to make petrol out of the rest of the body ...
Made from blood.. No shortage of that
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Gross! But I think they use hydrocolloids for those these days.
Uh, "if it looks roughly mouse-shaped according to my infra-red sensitive pit, eat it"? --Chris Burke 09-08-10
More than you know:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDvSPQ7megQ
Do you know any vegans who eat food products made from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms)?
Unless I miss my guess there will be few to none who would consider this acceptable, regardless of the human source of the inserted gene.
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Bio-compatable, bio-degradable, flexible, and about the same density as most human tissue. There's lots of uses for that.
Use it for ballistic gelatin. Talk about authenticity!
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Some entrepreneur ought to be able to sell at least one (5 ton minimum) order of "Certified Human" ballistic gelatin to some defense department employee gullible enough to think they ought to test it and see if the "Certified human" content makes a difference.
You'll have to ask the Vegans? If you send a message there now you could get a reply in 52 years
What color is it?
gelatin made by yeast modified with the genes from a cow that died of old age?
70 years ago, it was soap and lamp shades. Is this what the New World Order is about? Reduce the population and stock up the larder in one go.
The mind conceives, the body achieves, the spirit manifests.
In case of the zombie apocalypse, this is what you can distract them with. Add poison or high explosives, and much hilarity ensues.
So, you're saying, there's always going to be room for it?
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I've got a fine Chianti...
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Now in the age facile convenience we may Grok our loved ones with jello shots at the wake. No muss no fuss, and for added experiential profundity lace those shots with psilocybin.
Why does my jello taste like Grandma?
Depends.
They keep the adult diaper on during processing for that extra Grandma flavor. "Depend - Kimberly-Clark"
Scientists replacing animal collagen with animal collagen is news? The only thing that is news in this is the way the collagen was obtained.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
Oh NO!
Jello IS people!
You can't handle the truth.