Sisotim?

April 14, 2006 11:06 AM

Mitosis reversed. Incompletely, but still... Here's the Nature paper(PDF). Here's the video (direct link to QT). Oh, and we can print organs now. O brave new world! (via, via)
posted by BlackLeotardFront (19 comments total)

Here's the video.
posted by Termite at 11:11 AM on April 14, 2006

I'd like to order 1000 brains please.

*strokes beard evilly*

MU WAH HAHAHAHAHAAAAA.
posted by exlotuseater at 11:15 AM on April 14, 2006

Oh, and we can print organs now.

I've been photocopying my ass for years now.
posted by ori at 11:56 AM on April 14, 2006

Thta wouldn't have been my organ of choice.
posted by Astro Zombie at 12:06 PM on April 14, 2006

Oh man, Jesus is gonna be sooooo pissed. I bet he doesn't come back from the dead for three *months* this year.
posted by aaronetc at 12:30 PM on April 14, 2006

There's hope for zombie Jesus yet!
posted by furtive at 1:02 PM on April 14, 2006

Mitosis issues don't affect Jesus, since he's haploid.

I think that's probably what the "H" stands for in "Jesus H. Christ!"
posted by Gamblor at 1:18 PM on April 14, 2006

All joking aside, though, this is pretty incredible.
posted by Gamblor at 1:19 PM on April 14, 2006

Will I finally be able to grow the thorny impenetrable exoskeleton of my dreams?
posted by tkchrist at 1:28 PM on April 14, 2006

Does this mean those spam emails saying you can get a bigger penis will be for real now???
posted by Jelreyn at 2:01 PM on April 14, 2006

Oh, they're for real, Jelreyn. They just don't work on you.
posted by JeremyT at 2:29 PM on April 14, 2006

Will I finally be able to grow the thorny impenetrable exoskeleton of my dreams?
posted by tkchrist at 4:28 PM EST on April 14 [!]


Does this mean those spam emails saying you can get a bigger penis will be for real now???
posted by Jelreyn at 5:01 PM EST on April 14 [!]

Yes to both of you, but only by combining the two concepts.
posted by secret about box at 2:44 PM on April 14, 2006

Yes to both of you, but only by combining the two concepts.

Hmmmm. Let me think about it.

Done. It's a GO! Large thorny impenetrable penis's are go!
posted by tkchrist at 4:15 PM on April 14, 2006

No big deal. Call me when they get to squeeze two twins into one person. Extra points if they merge Danny deVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger
posted by qvantamon at 6:33 PM on April 14, 2006

Oops - sorry, must have messed up when I recopied it. Thanks for correcting me, termite!

I don't think it's quite the breakthrough some might make it out to be, but it's certainly interesting! The most interesting statement is that they had changed a process they earlier thought impossible to affect, which supports the idea that other unexpected successes like this are possible.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 7:07 PM on April 14, 2006

Thanks for correcting me

That was nothing. Thanks for posting it in the first place.
posted by Termite at 3:00 AM on April 15, 2006

Hurrah- at last we will be able to invent by far the messiest death imaginable- causing you to revert to foetal form in a few short minutes, before you decay into a globule of dead stem cells.
posted by malusmoriendumest at 4:06 AM on April 15, 2006

Or worse--just when you sighingly disconnect from this blue fleshy pumpkin, you and your soul, like centromeres, could be forced to re-visit your past. From the release of death, back to arranged reality.
posted by toma at 4:43 AM on April 15, 2006

Does this mean those spam emails saying you can get a bigger penis will be for real now???

Yup, you'll just need to print them.
posted by ori at 1:09 PM on April 15, 2006