Dr. Craig Venter, last year, unveiled a reprogrammable cell – insert different DNA and it acts like a different species…
and that’s less than a minute of the middle of this scary, yet awesome TED talk by Juan Enriquez (thanks rachet, your links waste a lot of my time)
They put resveratrol into beer! a scientist said “Wow, there is a god!” when told of the news. This guy is pretty funny, too.
I’d heard about the trachea regrown from stem cells, implanted without drugs. Well, they did the same thing with a rat heart and IT STARTED TO BEAT.
They grew it in a glass jar and it started. to. FUCKING. BEAT.
Now that’s an awesome day in the lab. 