Comments on: “We took a rat apart and rebuilt it as a jellyfish.”

By: Jess Tauber

Jess Tauber — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:30:20 +0000

As if nature-made jellyfish weren’t already starting to overpopulate the seas because of our overfishing. But waste-not, want-not. And yet another stupid plot line for next year’s lineup of movies on the SCIFI channel. At least the shark in Jaws was quick. Dying inside the gut(s) of an artificial coelenterate might take a long time under the right conditions (though not as bad as that thing in the Return of the Jedi).

By: William Grant

William Grant — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:06:44 +0000

Remarkable finding of wave propagation manner of transmission. Highly likely to produce a useful model to test cardiac drugs controlling chronotropic and ionotropic conduction. Brilliant.

By: ChasCPeterson

ChasCPeterson — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:49:09 +0000

It’s not a synthetic jellyfish; far from it. For just one thing, the pulsing is extrinsically controlled.

It’s not even ‘science’.
No questions were answered other than ‘will this work?’

It’s a nifty piece of engineering, nothing more.

Plus a guy full of hype and another guy who apparently bought it.

By: ZL 'Kai' Burington

ZL 'Kai' Burington — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 03:13:26 +0000

Very interesting, but this isn’t a functional jellyfish in any sense. It does not have stinging cells, it does not feed, it does not reproduce. It’s a model of jellyfish motion using rat heart cells. Mad science, indeed, but not a jellyfish.

By: Fredrik Asplund

Fredrik Asplund — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:39:19 +0000

Interesting stuff! Linked on Sprawler:

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By: Sancho

Sancho — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:16:54 +0000

Shame that the first comment on a stunning and fascinating science article is a partisan political stab, but it was a good one at least.

By: Eideard

Eideard — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:22:18 +0000

Jellyfish with the heart of a rat – that’s a Blue Dog Democrat.