Anyone in DC area?

[Catrona]

Well?

[Tesla]

How big do you define an area.  I'm 5 hours drive from DC.

[Catrona]

dunno.... but my pool of aspies i've met in IRL is small

[Tesla]

dunno.... but my pool of aspies i've met in IRL is small

Would you hook electrodes up to my brain if we met?

[Catrona]

dunno.... but my pool of aspies i've met in IRL is small

Would you hook electrodes up to my brain if we met?

nah but i'd let you run through our rat mazes if ya want.... well sit in it, is about all you could do

[Tesla]

dunno.... but my pool of aspies i've met in IRL is small

Would you hook electrodes up to my brain if we met?

nah but i'd let you run through our rat mazes if ya want.... well sit in it, is about all you could do

Would I get a piece of cheese?

[Catrona]

dunno.... but my pool of aspies i've met in IRL is small

Would you hook electrodes up to my brain if we met?

nah but i'd let you run through our rat mazes if ya want.... well sit in it, is about all you could do

Would I get a piece of cheese?

actually, they use chocolate 

[enronh]

dunno.... but my pool of aspies i've met in IRL is small

Would you hook electrodes up to my brain if we met?

nah but i'd let you run through our rat mazes if ya want.... well sit in it, is about all you could do

Would I get a piece of cheese?

actually, they use chocolate 

Yeah mice must be sick of cheese by now. If not of the taste, of the cliche. 

Did you ever see a mouse with a human ear on its back?

[Tesla]

dunno.... but my pool of aspies i've met in IRL is small

Would you hook electrodes up to my brain if we met?

nah but i'd let you run through our rat mazes if ya want.... well sit in it, is about all you could do

Would I get a piece of cheese?

actually, they use chocolate 

Even better!

[SovaNu]

Did you ever see a mouse with a human ear on its back?

everyone who watched that episode of Nip/Tuck...

[Catrona]

dunno.... but my pool of aspies i've met in IRL is small

Would you hook electrodes up to my brain if we met?

nah but i'd let you run through our rat mazes if ya want.... well sit in it, is about all you could do

Would I get a piece of cheese?

actually, they use chocolate 

Yeah mice must be sick of cheese by now. If not of the taste, of the cliche. 

Did you ever see a mouse with a human ear on its back?

not in IRL

[Tesla]

[Catrona]

i forget.... did they attach the ear and show that it can survive on the mouse?

or was the mouse born with the ear on it and they showed how human and mouse genes arent so different (they arent**) and that it still develops properly?

i know it's supposed to help contribute to being able to clone human organs for transplant surgeries ect....

though it does certainly open up many other doors

** in fact, they are finding out that the main difference between organisms is in the junk DNA inbetween genes... they're finding out that this "junk" actually controls a lot of gene regulation/expression... explains why humans and monkeys AND mice can have such a high percentage so similar DNA yet be diff species... also explains how a lot of studies are finding conflicting results as to why or why not some genes are involved in certain conditions... cause it may not be the gene that's mutated... but this junk DNA is F***ed up and causing the same effect as a gene mutation... but when you go in and look at DNA... sequence looks fine (ie no mutation)... new and hot field that we dont know a lot about

[Tesla]

Neither, they grew the ear on the mouse by using a biodegradable ear structure and bovine cartilage.

[Catrona]

Neither, they grew the ear on the mouse by using a biodegradable ear structure and bovine cartilage.

ok, i see what they did... but to do that what they are doing is inducing the native mouse "growth genes" ( really what they are are  homeotic transcription factors which are genes responsible for setting up our segmental body parts and helping them to grow in specfic places [which you can mutate and express ectopically, say on backs]) to take some basic building blacks and complete the process.... this is only possible due to gene conservation between the species.

so they took human ear gene... linked it up with the mouse transcriptionfactor for ear growth... and ectopically expressed (mutated) where the mouse gene was telling "grow ear here"....  so in effect... the mouse's normal biological process grew the ear (with a lil basic biodegradable help) using the mouse's biological processes.

they started doing all this stuff in flies... check out antennapedia.... where they made feet (pedia) frow on the head where antennas should be

same kind of homeotic transcription factors involved