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Michael Levin has some awesome experiments where he screws around with the bioelectric fields of planetaria and he gets them to grow two heads and no tail, whil
by rolisz 2y ago
Michael Levin has some awesome experiments where he screws around with the bioelectric fields of planetaria and he gets them to grow two heads and no tail, while being genetically identical to a normal one.
- elric 2y agoOne of my old classmates' area of research is applying electric stimuli to various types of cells. Apparently the right amount at the right time can briefly allow foreign material to pass through the cell wall unimpeded. The complexity of a single cell is insane, that of a complex organism is way beyond insane.
- dennis_jeeves2 2y agoI think you meant cell membrane rather than cell wall? (There is a contrarian theory that says that the cell membrane does not exist at all, look up Gilbert Ling. So it's no surprise that things can move in and out of the cell under certain conditions.)
- inglor_cz 2y agoPlanaria. (Yeah, I am a pedant sometimes.) Also, frogs, tadpoles, axolotls. Truly a wonderful mind. I admire him, not least for his ability to do really weird and important science outside the usual "don't do anything extraordinary" boundaries set by ossified grant committees.
- Gooblebrai 2y agoI thank you. I was looking for planetaria and I was confused
- rolisz 2y agofacepalm Thank you. That was not pedantic at all, I made an early morning mistake.
- dmd 2y agoAnd you keep them in the planetarium, right?