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		Scientists find a way to create new brain cells from...eww, that's just gross (nature.com)		65
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colinspooky		2012-12-10 02:59:32 AM

clever, I say

make me some tea		2012-12-10 03:06:51 AM

That's neat!

markie_farkie		2012-12-10 03:19:17 AM

I'm drinking my way to more brain cells right now!!

kid_icarus		2012-12-10 08:02:32 AM

What a pee-brain

Snarfangel		2012-12-10 08:58:54 AM

Urineuron?

HulkHands		2012-12-10 09:49:10 AM

Where do you think the term piss-for-brains comes from?

UberDave		2012-12-10 09:53:42 AM

Approves:

cgraves67		2012-12-10 10:03:52 AM

I really am thinking with my dick!

huntercr		2012-12-10 10:06:49 AM

They are seeking funding for Phase 2 of the project: Sh*** for Brains

oldfarthenry		2012-12-10 10:08:22 AM

Nnnyyyesss - I believe this is a cunning ploy instigated by the light beer industry.

vodka		2012-12-10 10:12:50 AM

Just hope they don't mix up your cells with some parasite's cells then implant that into your brain. This must be the origin of Brain Slugs.

ruleux		2012-12-10 10:13:07 AM

I have been told my whole life I was pissin my brain away. Now I have scientific proof.

Englebert Slaptyback		2012-12-10 10:13:28 AM

eww, that's just gross

Why is that gross? Urine denial.

Jesus Burnt My Hotdog		2012-12-10 10:14:05 AM

This could be a great result. Imagine a wee machine connected to the hampton that processed your pish as you drank and then installed shiny new brain cells into the places where the alcohol had destroyed them.

Science is awesome.

Carn		2012-12-10 10:14:05 AM

So you drink the beer, it goes up in your brain and makes you happy, but it's not allowed to stay very long so it takes its new friends the brain cells with it when you pee it out.

garkola		2012-12-10 10:15:24 AM

So - did that only work with rats, or did they take human urine, make neurons, then inject them into rats? The article is ambiguous.

WTP 2		2012-12-10 10:17:20 AM

i would rather think the zombies were going to eat my brains than this

TheGogmagog		2012-12-10 10:20:01 AM

Carn: So you drink the beer, it goes up in your brain and makes you happy, but it's not allowed to stay very long so it takes its new friends the brain cells with it when you pee it out.

Came to propose this hypothesis..
Who knew pissing away brain cells was literal .

sinanju		2012-12-10 10:23:03 AM

It does explain the Politics tab, though.

RedVentrue		2012-12-10 10:24:55 AM

It's a hell of a lot better than killing fetuses.
Feta?
Fetii ?

lack of warmth		2012-12-10 10:25:13 AM

Still less gross than Romans using urine for dry cleaning. Only because it meant the whole society wore urine dry cleaned garments.

Jon iz teh kewl		2012-12-10 10:28:46 AM

RedVentrue: It's a hell of a lot better than killing fetuses.
Feta?
Fetii ?

FETAE
www.gaganisbros.com.au

Onkel Buck		2012-12-10 10:30:16 AM

They finally found something worth a squirt of piss

DontMakeMeComeBackThere		2012-12-10 10:30:21 AM

Well, ain't that a pisser?

WTP 2		2012-12-10 10:31:49 AM

pee brain not pea brain

Trucker		2012-12-10 10:33:17 AM

Oh don't get all pissy about it, subby.

dj_spanmaster		2012-12-10 10:36:19 AM

If I'm brain damaged and you can replace huge swaths of damaged neurons, I really won't care where they came from.

dalovindj		2012-12-10 10:40:45 AM

[chumba wumba]

Pissing the ni-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ight away!!!!

[/chumba wumba]

RedVentrue		2012-12-10 10:48:11 AM

Jon iz teh kewl: RedVentrue: It's a hell of a lot better than killing fetuses.
Feta?
Fetii ?

FETAE
[www.gaganisbros.com.au image 418x306]

Thank you!!!

You saved my grammar!

id10ts		2012-12-10 10:52:24 AM

So, our brains signals would be transmitted via Urons?

tolallorti		2012-12-10 10:54:27 AM

Ahead of his time.

BenJammin		2012-12-10 10:54:35 AM

Proof that heavy drinkers are pissing their brains away.

metallion		2012-12-10 10:54:39 AM

That would explain my daughter's boyfriend...

actually, calling him piss for brains insults perfectly good piss...

LavenderWolf		2012-12-10 10:56:50 AM

Jesus Burnt My Hotdog: This could be a great result. Imagine a wee machine connected to the hampton that processed your pish as you drank and then installed shiny new brain cells into the places where the alcohol had destroyed them.

Science is awesome.

Did you say "pish?"

You're drunk!

trappedspirit		2012-12-10 11:11:24 AM

Exactly. They are taking a Urine cell and turning it into a brain cell. That's what is going on there.

Great Name For A Band		2012-12-10 11:12:33 AM

That's some whiz-bang science.

The All-Powerful Atheismo		2012-12-10 11:24:05 AM

Scienticians are just working on the "shiat-for-brains" hypothesis

rogue49		2012-12-10 11:24:25 AM

for some reason, they just are plain pissy...

BlackMtnMan		2012-12-10 11:29:06 AM

Gee whizz.

ghostwind		2012-12-10 11:32:08 AM

What a piss-poor idea!

StoPPeRmobile		2012-12-10 11:32:27 AM

Huge brain.
farm3.static.flickr.com

Millennium		2012-12-10 11:54:13 AM

So is this how Zeus reconstituted himself after the Danae incident?

germ78		2012-12-10 11:56:21 AM

UberDave: Approves:

[s10.postimage.org image 200x160]

More like the most smartest person in the world.

/also came for piss-for-brains
//leaving satisfied

stuffy		2012-12-10 12:06:09 PM

Pissing on her head.
It's not just for kicks anymore.

LazarusLong42		2012-12-10 12:11:26 PM

The lead researcher (i.e. last author):

Stem-cell biologist Duanqing Pei

is named "Pei." I'm seriously the first to mention this??

Englebert Slaptyback		2012-12-10 12:21:16 PM

LazarusLong42

The lead researcher (i.e. last author):

Stem-cell biologist Duanqing Pei

is named "Pei." I'm seriously the first to mention this??

Since 'pei' is pronounced 'pay', I'm surprised anyone mentioned it.

Jument		2012-12-10 12:26:04 PM

Wait... if pee contains cells then those cells could be infected with a virus, right? Then why does everyone seem to say that urine is sterile?

metallion		2012-12-10 12:30:18 PM

Looks like Costner was onto something in Waterworld...

rwfan		2012-12-10 12:45:05 PM

Englebert Slaptyback: LazarusLong42

The lead researcher (i.e. last author):

Stem-cell biologist Duanqing Pei

is named "Pei." I'm seriously the first to mention this??

Since 'pei' is pronounced 'pay', I'm surprised anyone mentioned it.

I think Laz is making a comment about the commercialization of science. As in "We just figured out how to turn piss into brains now we're gonna git Pei(d)"