The Medical Thread

If we pair that up with the DNA extracted from bone marrow thing, we can entirely eliminate men as necessary in reproduction!! Bring on the matriarchy!

(note: post is made entirely in jest. also I know capability to give birth doesn't necessarily equal women.)

^ i'm sure there's men out there gleefully forwards about how the same tech can make women redundant in 10 or 20 years.

Let's make EVERYONE redundant!

   EVERYONE   

NO MORE SEX-

Ahem. I mean, uh, no, making people redundant is bad and dystopian. So we shouldn't do that.

edited 11th Apr '14 2:56:46 PM by QuestionMarc

You're assuming cis men would willingly implant a vagina into themselves and give birth.

Yeah good ponit, no one in their right mind would want to experience that.

*Cough*

Artificial vaginas are just one step away from arificial womb. If we can get them working outside of human bodies, we could make women superfluous. Or at least both genders have the same potential of being redundant.

edited 11th Apr '14 3:21:37 PM by Mastah

You mean we would have to do away with societal roles based upon genitalia?

OH NO!

I know, right? Why should I have a penis at all?

Does germ plasm accelerate evolution?

Decades-old mystery solved of how cells keep from bursting

Is this a believable injury?

Someone recieves a wound (stabbed probably) in the chest/abdomen area but manages to hide it from other people for an amount of time (like 30-60 minutes) but then they start to become faint. They manage to get them someone to stauch the bleeding before they bleed to death, but they're stable enough to start moving around (not like exerting tto hard, just walking) a couple hours

I guess that could happen if the knife/sword misses all the major blood vessels. Whether blood loss bad enough to cause fainting is compatible with walking around I don't know for sure, but it prolly isn't compatible with fighting...

Well, it's entirely possible for blood loss from penetrating wounds to the chest / abdomen to cause the patient to start feeling faint in half an hour, and if you leave the knife in, it may actually slow the rate of bleeding out. The trouble is that any stanching you could do in the field is only going to stop external bleeding, so unless your friends are able to perform emergency field surgery, recovery might be a little tricky. (Of course, this only refers to the bleeding alone, and doesn't take other possible injuries into account e.g. a pneumothorax from a punctured lung.)

Targeting cancer with a triple threat: New nanoparticles can deliver three drugs at once

Triple Chemical action? Why they has that for house hold cleaning products and laundry detergent for years!

Scientists smash barrier to growing organs from stem cells

Regenerated esophagus transplanted in rats

New method of screening children for autism spectrum disorders works at 9 months old

Sperm meets egg: Protein essential for fertilization discovered

edited 16th Apr '14 10:46:52 PM by rmctagg09

Finding turns neuroanatomy on its head: Researchers present new view of myelin

Cool: somebody actually found something definate on what was only vague speculation of what might be when I was at uni!

That's quite a few eyes poked, that is.

Myelin has long been suspected of playing more roles than we gave it credit for. More reasons to go shopping in that store, methinks. ^_^

edited 21st Apr '14 1:42:10 PM by Euodiachloris

How do I make my dad stop taking Ambien?

Every time he goes up or down the stairs while on his ambien stupor, I'm afraid he's going to fall and break his neck.

He was on the laptop tonight saying he was looking up his stocks but all he did was type "AJAJAJAJA" on google and clicking on absolutely nothing.

And then he often just gorges himself in the kitchen.

And my mom and I are completely pissed off about this.

I was going to record him being an idiot but he thankfully went to bed when I went to get my phone.

...Mate, if that behaviour is an accurate description of what your dad's doing, there seems to be a bigger mental or psychological problem lurking, and it doesn't sound like the kind that can be solved with Ambien. I don't know enough about his case at this point to make a diagnosis, but he should be reviewed by a medical professional if this is happening on a regular basis.

edited 21st Apr '14 8:07:46 PM by Pyrite

No no, thats ONLY when he's on Ambien. Normally he's the picture of perfect health.

And Ambien has many many (seriously go on youtube) cases of people acting like complete idiots when on the shit.

edited 21st Apr '14 11:58:31 PM by Thorn14

I don't need YouTube to convince me of that. But if he's getting it via prescription, then he and his prescribing practitioner should be informed about the side effects that he's experiencing and have the medications adjusted or withdrawn if necessary. There's also a need to consider the possibility of him having developed tolerance to or dependence on the drug - but these are details which his attending doctor would be better able to assess.

edited 22nd Apr '14 1:18:53 AM by Pyrite

Yeah — you can't just cold turkey that. You really should record him and catch him with the evidence when he's not on the stuff and in lala land. His perception of what is going on will be vastly different — so he won't realise how dangerous it looks from outside without being shown. Until he sees for himself, it's just people griping at him... so, a stubborn reaction? Pretty standard.

Thanks to the very effects that worry and annoy you, he probably doesn't have a clue how he is being affected by them — his perception is being actively warped by neurochemicals. And, until steps are taken to raise the issue with a doctor, just telling him to stop won't do the trick.

edited 22nd Apr '14 4:10:30 AM by Euodiachloris

Cloaked DNA nanodevices survive pilot mission

Are we in the age of nanomachines, son?

Hundreds of genetic mutations found in healthy blood of a supercentenarian

Hearing quality restored with bionic ear technology used for gene therapy: Re-growing auditory nerves

Surface area of the digestive tract much smaller than previously thought

Brain circuits involved in emotion discovered by neuroscientists