Scientists continue to get all thier ideas from horror/sci-fi
movies. But they must leave the theatre halfway through the movie
because they never realize that this stuff is a -bad idea-.
Now Ellen Heber-Katz has created mice that can regenerate any organ
except the brain. Remove a lung, it grows a new one. Pull out it's
heart, and a new one will show up. "We have experimented with
amputating or damaging several different organs, such as the heart,
toes, tail and ears, and just watched them regrow..."
The zombie mice can even infect other animals with the regeneration
trait. "When we injected fetal liver cells taken from those animals
into ordinary mice, they too gained the power of regeneration. We
found this persisted even six months after the injection."
Ellen Heber-Katz is a professor of immunology at the Wistar
Institute, a biomedical research center in the US. She's still
researching exactly how the genes work and thinks that humans may
be able to duplicate the regeneration trait.
In a nutshell, a scientist in a biomedical research center has
created zombie mice that can make other animals into zombies, too.
And now they want to see if people can be made into zombies,
too.
Please, someone send these people a copy of 'Resident Evil' or
'Dawn of the Dead' (now available on DVD!).
