[leucetios]

Fancy a partially alive jacket, possibly grown out of your own skin? In reality, it may not be that far away.

Article here

The short version. They're able to use renewable cells (like human bone cells and some cell from a mouse*). Then ssing a biodegradable polymer as a base, they coat it with the mouse cells to form connective tissue and topped it up with human bone cells in the hope of creating a stronger layer of skin. The jacket is being grown inside a specially designed bioreactor that acts as a surrogate body. The group hopes that once the polymer degrades, a whole jacket that maintains its shape and integrity will be left behind.

So technically this is alive. But no animals are being killed to attain it. Is there an ethical side to this?

** When I say renewable I mean it. These mouse cells, which are very common in scientific research, can be weighed in tons or even tens of tons and they all came from one mouse in the 1970s

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[Fairiedust]

great idea for burn patients...but a bit disturbing to view the little jacket :o

[leucetios]

I know it doesn't continue to live when it is "finished", but it would be nice to have a jacket that mended itself when ripped

[Banana]

I could throw up.

[leucetios]

Originally posted by Banana@Oct 13 2004, 08:03 AM
I could throw up.

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why?

[Banana]

Originally posted by leucetios@Oct 13 2004, 10:12 AM
why?

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That kind of thing....growing tissue in petrie dishes, growing an ear on a mouse...makes me feel really queasy. I'm not sure why. It just turns my stomach.

[leucetios]

Fair enough. Some random shit makes me queasy (sup kneecaps?)

If you read the article skip the last couple of paragraphs about the performance "artists" who are having extra organs and shit grown and put on them (like extra noses and shit).

[VitaminE]

This reminds me of the movie Darkman.

[Banana]

Originally posted by leucetios@Oct 13 2004, 10:22 AM
Fair enough.  Some random shit makes me queasy (sup kneecaps?)

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And boogers

[TomFoolery]

I'd fuck the sleeve of that jacket.



Sin,

minorthreat

[leucetios]

Originally posted by Banana@Oct 13 2004, 08:26 AM
And boogers

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Do boogerd make me queasy? Do you know something about me that I don't? :S

[Bill]

I wonder who thought the mice needed jackets to begin with.

[Banana]

Originally posted by leucetios@Oct 13 2004, 10:52 AM
Do boogerd make me queasy? Do you know something about me that I don't? :S

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Yep. Want proof?

[leucetios]

Originally posted by Banana@Oct 13 2004, 08:58 AM
Yep. Want proof?

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I might >_>

[CodeWarrior]

Originally posted by Banana@Oct 13 2004, 12:26 PM
And boogers

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cough::velvet::cough

[Banana]

Originally posted by leucetios@Oct 13 2004, 11:02 AM
I might >_>

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I have a good memory.

[leucetios]

dayamn you do have a good memory.
:|

[leucetios]

bump for greg, he digs this serious shit

[Banana]

Originally posted by leucetios@Oct 13 2004, 04:09 PM
bump for greg, he digs this serious shit

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Speaking of "digging".....

[leucetios]

that shit doesn't bother me :angry:

I just ... just.. I... I just didn't WANT to see that picture :>