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Mice grow ‘mini-antlers’ thanks to deers’ speedy stem cells
- stametseater 4y agoOh sweet, more man-made horrors beyond my comprehension.
- pavel_lishin 4y agoThis sounds like the cutest possible man-made horror. I'm putting these little guys in my D&D game.
- jollyllama 4y agoSearched for an article with pics Man made horror, not very cute, can confirm
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoHave a link handy?
- perilunar 4y agohttps://www.popsci.com/science/antler-mice-stem-cell/ https://www.popsci.com/science/antler-mice-stem-cell/
- tsujamin 4y ago+1 for instant regrets
- Buttons840 4y ago"Mouse with antlers" would be better described as "mouse with cancerous growth on head with some antler like traits".
- pavel_lishin 4y agoYou are ... very much correct, those pictures are no fun at all. I'm glad I drew my own version before googling those: https://i.imgur.com/YMXTnX0.png https://i.imgur.com/YMXTnX0.png
- Fauntleroy 4y agoThe actual results of the experiment are not what the title would lead one to believe.
- skeaker 4y agoIt's weird how this phrase has come to mean "potentially vaguely unethical"
- kanzure 4y ago> "Such a treatment could raise ethical concerns about the cross-species implantation of cells, as well as the significant safety trials that would be required" Yes the significant ethical concerns of deer antlers... what? We need to just accelerate (in general; I don't have many thoughts about deer antlers but don't let this stop you) and not get into another incident spending 14 years "safety testing" golden rice: https://twitter.com/kanzure/status/1636170779447513091 https://twitter.com/kanzure/status/1636170779447513091
- UberFly 4y agoYes, perhaps we should get the Wuhan lab to go full speed ahead on this. What could go wrong?
- jMyles 4y agoIntentionally engineering features that make a pathogen more dangerous (whether or not that's the origin story of SARS-CoV-2) is not the same thing as putting antlers on a mouse. Or even putting antlers on a human. Electricity is wonderful for lighting our homes, powering our thinking machines, and talking to each other over vast distances using radio. That doesn't mean it's OK for some rent-seeking asshole company to make electric torture devices and hand them out to the cops. Likewise, genetic engineering can be useful, and fun, and productive, and insightful. It can also be murderous. The former don't per se imply the latter. Not everything needs to be weaponized. And some things need not to be.
- UncleEntity 4y ago> Not everything needs to be weaponized. And some things need not to be. And some things need not be done at all. Could you imagine being a being with human level intelligence but trapped in a pig’s body, because science? Or The Island of Doctor Moreau as a warning and not a playbook of “things I want to do with my career”.
- xwdv 4y agoEventually the antler keeps growing until the mouse is more antler than mouse. An antler with a mouse as a tumor.
- IncRnd 4y agoThis is a really expensive and roundabout way to have discovered a better mouse trap.
- chrisco255 4y agoIf this were available as a cosmetic enhancement for humans, how many people you think would go for it?
- c-cube 4y agoI shudder at the idea of people who put truck nuts on their F150 having access to that kind of technology...
- chrisco255 4y agoHonestly, the last thing a redneck would ever do is wear antlers during deer season.
- hinkley 4y agoI was reminded of the Hyperion Cantos, where "biosculpting" is a thing and the reformed party animal had turned himself first into a satyr, and then back into standard human.
- linksnapzz 4y agoA surgeon named “Graumann Hackett” did it for Silenus, IIRC.
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- davidw 4y agoPaywalled, but... are there pictures of mice with little antlers? I would really like to see that.
- 6177c40f 4y agoI found pictures. You really do not want to see them, but if you must, here: https://interestingengineering.com/science/mini-antlers-mice-stem-cells-deers https://interestingengineering.com/science/mini-antlers-mice...
- rolenthedeep 4y agoI extremely regret clicking this link. For the curious, most of the photos just look like a weird tumor on top of the mouse head. A few display spindly growths that look like cordyceps. It's very gross and kind of disturbing.
- userbinator 4y agoBasically, it seems like they got a tumor of deer cells to grow on a mouse, and the deer cells started becoming antler-like. Unlike what the title of the article implies, it's not mice with antlers in the positions they would be on a deer.
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- xwdv 4y agoShould have asked an AI instead
- userbinator 4y agoI did, and it generated an image that seemed closer to what people would think when they read the title.
- IncRnd 4y ago
- sparrish 4y agoNow I just need a little sley and a tiny Santa...
- davidg109 4y agoI’m officially evicting my hamster to make room for one of these, cute as a button, antler rodents.
- mynegation 4y agoNext step: wolpertingers.
- ben_w 4y agoAh, so that's what the mystery creature in one of my local restaurants is. I just assumed jackalope.
- DoktorDelta 4y agoOne step closer to Jackalopes!
- tomrod 4y agoPaywalled :fear emoji:
- Coffee_Overflow 4y agohttps://images.interestingengineering.com/2023/03/13/image/jpeg/bavUMGFqHG1NMRRWy5MYlLWaYGEKh7B3t6Jc4iyH.jpg https://images.interestingengineering.com/2023/03/13/image/j...
- tedunangst 4y agoThis article could not possibly be worth $40.
- maxerickson 4y agohttps://www.irec.es/en/publicaciones-destacadas/celulas-madre-impulsan-regeneracion-cuerna-ciervo/ https://www.irec.es/en/publicaciones-destacadas/celulas-madr... has more information and seems to be discussing the same research. They are focused on understanding the rapid growth with the idea of applying it to tissue regeneration.
- imgabe 4y agoFinally! Now we won’t have to attach them with staples anymore. https://youtu.be/H70ybZlB19Y https://youtu.be/H70ybZlB19Y
- Logans_Run 4y ago...If only someone would provide a full access link to the paper (Sigh & hint-hint). Then perhaps We (the HN Community) could have an adult conversation beyond what the Click-Baity submission title portrays.
- docandrew 4y agoThis bothers me, but the use of this technology to regrow teeth might be an interesting use case.
- abudabi123 4y agoMice meniscus growing stem cells is certain to replace medieval surgical procedures.