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(Discover) Strange Scientists samples sperm from wide variety of naked mole rats. Oh well, everyone needs a hobby   (blogs.discovermagazine.com) divider line 13
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xanadian [TotalFark]
2011-12-05 09:09:51 AM
I collect spores, molds and fungus.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2011-12-05 09:18:30 AM
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crab66
2011-12-05 09:38:53 AM
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sniderman
2011-12-05 09:43:39 AM
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St_Francis_P [TotalFark]
2011-12-05 09:52:08 AM
Rule 34?
 
Mattix
2011-12-05 09:52:20 AM
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queezyweezel [TotalFark]
2011-12-05 10:46:13 AM
...Still cant get the taste out of their mouths.
 
Shadowknight
2011-12-05 11:48:38 AM
sniderman: [www.vromansbookstore.com image 404x303]

As a father of two little girls absolutely obsessed with the now cancelled "Kim Possible," I came here for this and am leaving satisfied.
 
jonny_ill
2011-12-05 12:26:17 PM
Nutty, with aromas of bleach and chlorine with a salty finish. You must try the 2010 vintage out of the Mojave. Absolutely superb.
 
whataboutbob1974
2011-12-05 01:41:55 PM
www.demotivationalposters.org

What a scientist might look like...
 
BullBearMS
2011-12-05 02:38:22 PM
Naked mole rats are pretty much immune to cancer.

If you want to know how cancer grows and how it kills, then it helps to have a case in front of you. Most researchers don't wait for tumors to pop up by chance: They irradiate their animals, or transplant tumors from one to another, or inject carcinogens directly into their bellies. In 2004, Buffenstein and her students tried one of these shortcuts. They placed some mole rats in a gamma chamber and blasted their pale, pink bodies with ionizing rays. The animals were unimpressed. When I visited Buffenstein's lab this past July, many were still alive, skittering through the plastic tubes of their basement habitat at the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies.

Four years later, Buffenstein tried again. This time she infected cells from a naked mole rat with a virus designed to corrupt their nuclei with the cancer-causing genes SV40 TAg and Ras. Then she slipped those cells into a live mouse, under the skin behind its ear. If you do the same using infected material from a mouse or a rat, or even a cow or a human, the transplant quickly grows into a deadly tumor, invading nearby fat and muscle tissue. But when Buffenstein and her colleagues used cells from a naked mole-rat, nothing happened.

Earlier this year, one of Buffenstein's graduate students tried smearing the skin of half a dozen naked mole rats with a pair of vicious carcinogens: A synthetic compound called DMBA and an inflammatory agent known as TPA. When the same toxic pairing was applied to regular Black-6 lab mice as an experimental control, a cluster of tumors popped up within weeks. Every single mouse had cancer, and every single mouse died. The naked mole rats went on skittering through their tubes.

Her latest assault involves pouring carcinogens down the mole rats' throats in a last-ditch effort to induce liver or mammary cancer. But that may not work, either. For years, Buffenstein's laboratory Rasputins have been irradiated, poisoned, and heated up; their cells dosed with every imaginable pollutant-chemotherapies, oxidative stressors, and heavy metals-with little or no effect. "You name it," the professor says, "we tried all the kinds of toxins that are out there, and the naked mole rat seems to be very resilient and resistant." A drug regimen that would be murderous to mouse cells must be doubled or tripled or even multiplied 50 times over, she explains, before it would have similar effects on a naked mole rat.


You go right ahead and study them, scientists.
 
kahnzo
2011-12-05 02:53:20 PM
this sperm tastes of poblanos and chocolate
 
FerneJohn
2011-12-05 07:03:27 PM
Don't naked mole rats already resemble penises? What does the penis of something resembling a penis look like?

/Penis
 
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