Don't Mess With Them, You'll Regret It

Don't mess with them, you'll regret it

It is always refreshing to find inspiration in unusual places

A man on his way to his flight,

Gave TSA quite a large fright.

- Suspected a gun

But he was just hung,

A quick pat then proved that he's right.

~

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Bioengineers have made an artificial jellyfish using silicone and muscle cells from a rat’s heart. The synthetic creature, dubbed a medusoid, looks like a flower with eight petals. When placed in an electric field, it pulses and swims exactly like its living counterpart.

“Morphologically, we’ve built a jellyfish. Functionally, we’ve built a jellyfish. Genetically, this thing is a rat,” says Kit Parker, a biophysicist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who led the work.

Be forewarned

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