Discuss the intricate details of microbiology here!| Stem Cell Breakthrough | | Who knew, out of all the diseases in the world, hunger would be the first one to be cured? Call it port in a Petri Dish - a technique to turn pig stem cells into strips of meat that scientist say could one day offer a green alternative to raising livestock, help alleviate world hunger, and save some pigs their bacon. Fish stem cell could be used to produce healthy Omega 3 fatty acids, which could be mixed with the lab-produced pork instead of the usual artery-clogging fats found in livestock meat. My question is, do you think you would eat this genetically produced meat? | |
| | Michael Jackson's Will Opened! He's NOT the father of the children?? WhAt? | | Can you believe how they are treating this poor man in death? Worse than when he was alive! The will has been reportedly opened and money is to be given to Katherine, (Mom), children (3) and a few charities. Joe Jackson is reportedly left out of the will. gee... I wonder shy...Now here's the kicker. Reports are online stating that Michael is NOT the father of the three children and that Debbie Rowe isn't the Mother! Reports are that the dermotologist is the father and someone else donated eggs! MJ Jr and Paris were concieved in a petri dish. Prince MJ2's bio mother didn't know who she was carrying the Baby for! They say that one of Michael's lawyers just picked him up from the hospital after he was born and delivered him to Michael. (Like the stork?) Oh dear. What do you think of this?? Being an adopted child never knowing my sperm donor, I can tell you that it really doesn't matter who's sperm was used inyour creation when you are loved by a good man who wants you to call him Daddy. Who is so in love with you that he just can't stand it. Who works hard to provide for you, prays with and for and over you, teaches you to fly a kite and survive geometry and algebra... THAT is a... | |
| | A womans tumor is floating through ur room | | Quote:
The immortal remains of Henrietta Lacks. There is, however, one human being who is biologically immortal on a technicality, and her name is Henrietta Lacks. In 1951 she showed up at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, complaining of blood spotting in her underwear. Samples were taken of her cervical tissue and sent to a lab for analysis, which came back with a diagnosis of cervical cancer.The cancer was caused by the Human papillomavirus, which is a sexually transmitted disease. Most variants of this virus are harmless, but some are known to cause cervical cancer, as in Henrietta's case. After her diagnosis and before attempts to treat the disease with radium, another sample from the tumor was sent to George Gey, who was the head of tissue culture research at Hopkins. Gey discovered that the cells from Henrietta's tumor would not only survive and multiply outside of her body, but they didn't age either. These cells were basically immortal.And they're still alive, even though Henrietta herself died of the cancer on October 4th, 1951. Now, HeLa cells are about as common in biological research as the lab rat and the petri dish, and are still being grown in an... | |
| | The five-second rule: Does it really count? | | [b]Hello everyone here Ji,[/b]
Since begining, we are taught, not to pickup any eatabes from the floor and eat them. But I find something interesting and conincing below. How many of us would agree to follow .[b]"We've all heard of the five-second rule: If an item has been on the ground for less than a count of five, it's still safe to eat (or to let your baby slobber on). But none of the moms we spoke to follow this famous benchmark. Their alternative rule of thumb? Location matters far more than timing."I'm not upset if my daughter eats something off the floor at home," says Cheryl Lutz, a reading teacher and mother of a 3-year-old on Long Island, New York. "But if something falls at the mall, I don't want it in her mouth." Even germ-conscious Titley says she'll let her daughter eat off the floor at home, "because I know it's clean."In 2003, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign put the five-second rule to a scientific test by placing gummy bears on cultures of Escherichia coli bacteria. They found that the sticky candies became germ-ridden in fewer than five seconds. The researchers also checked for bacteria on heavily trafficked floors on... | |
| | Will it be a boy or a girl? | | When The Boss was pregnant we went through a fairly protracted discussion about whether we wanted to know the sex of our baby before it (as she was at that stage) was born. There were some fairly compelling reasons why we did want to know the sex: Blue paint was on special offer; but London Town Barbie was on special offer too. Pink babygros (babysuits) and cute little bonnets were also going cheap. So I was delighted to read that the boffins at the Society for the Protection of Embryonic Mankind have devised a way to sex sperm. The method is quite simple. A small petri dish is loaded with a tiny gift shop selling pretty cards, thimbles etc. Sperm is introduced to the dish and those that swim past the shop, without even pausing are identified as male and those that have to go in are female. Those that dither, looking through the windows are sent on a loop that takes in a small buggy and pictures of small animals. Those that continue on by are invariably male whilst those that stop, female. There have been a few mistakes of course. However, at the end of the day there will always be a few undecided and there's nothing wrong with that! Is this a useful contribution to planned... | |
| | What is that stuff in my gelatin? | | I enjoyed the jiggly multicolored invisible food stuff just like anyone else does up until I read the ingredients. The package uses the term "cultures" to describe what is in my gelatin. I don't want to ruin gelatin for my fellow MyLotters, but when I think of "cultures" I think of a deadly bacteria reproducing in a petri dish. You mean to tell me that delicious, funny looking, floppy snack I enjoyed eating all those years was still alive? Did you know this about gelatin? Would you still enjoy gelatin knowing it is still alive? | |
| | Building your immune system | | My boyfriend never cleans anything, well almost never. If pressed he will wash a load of laundry or wash the dishes. Even he admits that he has only washed two loads of laundry in the last year since I do it. I am always finding sticky, dusty, musty, and just disgusting messes around the house, not to mention the way that he leaves a bathroom and the filth on doornobs, walls, and countertops. I go behind him and clean it up mind you. Though I am not the absolute cleanest person or best housekeeper in the world. Whenever I point out one of his funky habits or messes he always replies good I am building my immune system! This infuriates me! Germs and sticky unattended messes and handprints do NOT repeat NOT build the immune system. If anything leaving germs and bacteria lying around the house has got to break down the immune system not build it up I would assume. Yes some bacteria and germs in your enviroment do help your immune system but I fail to see how a pepsi cola spilled a month ago and all of the stuff that has collected in that nasty syrupy sample do anything but collect harmful germs and bugs, which bring in more germs into your enviroment!Do you agree with me or him.... | |
| | Fresh Teeth From the Lab | | Denture wearers take heart. Scientists in Japan claim they have for the first time developed a reliable way to generate new mouse teeth in a Petri dish. Although any application to humans is years away, the team hopes the new approach could eventually lead to the regeneration of entire organs in the lab.
Bioengeered organs are still in the earliest stage of development. Last year, Anthony Atala of Wake Forest University Medical School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and his colleagues transplanted some lab-grown bladders into human patients, a first for a discrete, complex organ. Efforts to grow working teeth, however, have met with difficulty.In the new study, tissue engineer Takashi Tsuji of Tokyo University and colleagues started with separate populations of the two cell types that make teeth: epithelial cells and mesenchymal cells. | |
| | unorthodox kitty | | my cat has a weird way of stretching. she would lie on her back and stretch like a frog on a petri dish ready for dissection. she's so lazy that she does that only and not stand up. but it's very funny so we let her be with it. | |
| | Should women be paid for their eggs? | | Maybe they should, it would increase the number of egg "doner's" by alot, and would provide the chance of children to many sterile couples in the world. With eggs being sold, if stem cell research was allowd, their would be much more stem cells.When specialists extract an egg from a woman, it is grown in a petri dish for a few weeks, then re implanted to produce a baby.But the ones they dont re-implant, are essentially stem cells.It really confuses me where people get the idea that stem cell research involves aborted fetuses. These stem cells from eggs should be allowed to be used, because otherwise, they are just thrown away!rediculous...
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