Science Works.....religion wastes time praying

[Minimalist]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/health...TE&ei=5043

Rats with a spinal cord injury that left their hind legs completely paralyzed learned to walk again on their own after an intensive training course that included electrical stimulation of the brain and the spine, scientists reported on Thursday.

Cheers, science.



Fuck religion.

[Panglossian]

Amazing! Scientists perform the true miracles.

[fuckass365]

As awesome as this is, I feel bad for the rats. I'm assuming the scientists snapped their backs in the first place.

[Whateverist]

As awesome as this is, I feel bad for the rats. I'm assuming the scientists snapped their backs in the first place.

Count on it. Last weekend I was at a neuroscience conference on play. One of the more interesting speakers described his work with rats in which they cut a whole in the front of their head and suctioned out most of the frontal cortex. Then they wanted to know if they would play and socialize normally. Amazingly they did play but they didn't seem to learn what they should have from it. When they got older they hadn't learned how to behave around the alpha male and would get their asses kicked again and again.

[downbeatplumb]

As awesome as this is, I feel bad for the rats. I'm assuming the scientists snapped their backs in the first place.

Nah, they get school kids to do it for them.

[Angrboda]

Experiments Reveal Compassionate Rats

New experiments show that rats, despite their selfish reputation, don't act like, well, rats.

Instead, rats can be compassionate. They freed another trapped rat in their cage, even when yummy chocolate served as a tempting distraction.
Twenty-three of the 30 rats in the study opened the cage. The rats could have hogged all the chocolate before freeing their partners, but often didn't,
choosing to first help, then share.

Study author Peggy Mason of the University of Chicago said females showed more empathy than males. All six females freed their trapped partner;
17 of the 24 males did so.

Mason said the study showed that pro-social empathy is not limited to humans and primates as some people had thought.

The research is reported in Thursday's journal Science.

— December 8, 2011

[Reforged]

Epic win for science me thinks.

[Gooders1002]

Science, It works bitchs.

[Minimalist]

As awesome as this is, I feel bad for the rats. I'm assuming the scientists snapped their backs in the first place.

I suppose they could use the brains of fundies but they are probably defective.

[Annik]

I love science. I was talking to my mother-in-law today about an artificial heart called a Berlin Heart that could keep transplant patients holding on for a whole year while they wait for a new heart.