{"id":18159,"date":"2021-07-01T00:17:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T07:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18159"},"modified":"2021-07-01T00:17:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T07:17:32","slug":"quick-takes-mad-science-monkeys-playing-pong-with-neural-implants-lab-grown-tear-glands-24000-year-old-animals-revived-in-siberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/07\/01\/quick-takes-mad-science-monkeys-playing-pong-with-neural-implants-lab-grown-tear-glands-24000-year-old-animals-revived-in-siberia\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Mad Science! Monkeys Playing Pong With Neural Implants; Lab-Grown Tear Glands; 24,000 Year Old Animals Revived In Siberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: Mwahahaha!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jm-upHSP9KU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13401\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mad-scientist-black-and-white.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mad-scientist-black-and-white.jpg 600w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mad-scientist-black-and-white-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The future of interactive media is here, and it involves\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/elon-musks-neuralink-reveals-monkey-playing-pong-with-brain-implant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pong<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNeuralink, the brain-implant start up founded by SpaceX head honcho and self-appointed \u2018technoking\u2019 Elon Musk, has unveiled a new video of a nine-year-old monkey named \u2018Pager\u2019 playing Pong&#8230; with its brain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe three minute video shows Pager learning to control a computer with his brain activity. At first, the monkey uses a joystick to interact with the computer for a \u2018tasty banana smoothie, delivered through a straw.\u2019 The narrator states Pager has two Neuralink devices implanted in his brain. The devices, which Musk calls a \u2018Fitbit for your skull,\u2019 were revealed at a press briefing in August 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Too jaded with this world to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/scientists-grow-human-tear-glands-in-a-lab-and-actually-make-them-cry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cry<\/a> anymore? Well, now with science you can fake it!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDisembodied human tear glands that cry sound like something out of a sci-fi movie. But in the Netherlands, functional tear glands that don&#8217;t attach to anyone&#8217;s eyes (or emotions) are starring in their own real-life drama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cResearchers from the Hubrecht Institute and UMC Utrecht used stem cells to grow tiny tear glands in a petri dish that mimic the real thing. They hope these so-called organoids can serve as models for studying how the cells in human tear glands produce tears. The ultimate goal: to better understand and treat conditions such as dry eye disease or the autoimmune disorder Sj\u00f6gren&#8217;s syndrome, as well as cancers of the tear gland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Hopefully in the future, this type of organoid may even be transplantable to patients with nonfunctioning tear glands,\u2019 says Marie Bannier-H\u00e9laou\u00ebt, a doctoral candidate at the Hubrecht Institute for developmental biology and stem cell research. She co-authored a study published Tuesday in the journal Cell Stem Cell that details the project.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/animal-revived-after-being-frozen-for-24000-years-in-siberian-permafrost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twenty-four millennia<\/a> can\u2019t stop LIFE!!1!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c[A] microscopic arctic animal got 24,000 years worth of slumber and came out on the other side just fine. A new study details the remarkable journey of a bdelloid rotifer, a miniscule freshwater critter that survived for millennia in the permafrost of Siberia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018Our report is the hardest proof as of today that multicellular animals could withstand tens of thousands of years in cryptobiosis, the state of almost completely arrested metabolism,\u2019 Stas Malavin of Russia&#8217;s Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, said in a Cell Press statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMalavin is the co-author of a paper describing the rotifer&#8217;s incredible feat of survival, published in the journal Current Biology on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mad Science! 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