Lime Soap and Squid Ink: Weird Science

[summer_jackel]

I have a whole pile of Lime Soap and Squid Ink I have yet to scan and upload, oh boy. This is the last for today, though.

...Canis loves her some science!!!! This was at least partially inspired by archteryx's neat research, which involves making things glow...but not jackals, alas.

Comments

[skorzy.livejournal.com]

Heh..

In my PhD lab, we were making transgenic mice with "knock-out" genes. One of the genes we knocked out caused the mice to have spontaneous seizures when stressed. We learned how sensitive they were to this when we clapped very loudly near one, it peeled over into a seizure..

Later, we learned that certain cells in their hippocampus committed suicide when this happened, where in normal mice these cells were protected. Of course, these animals are potential models for ischemial stroke research. :)

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

How very very fascinating!
I like to hear about these things, thank you.

[archteryx.livejournal.com]

It isn't quite as easy to make glowy critters as it is to make glowy plants. (And even there, it took several months to get a stable line of plants going).

If Canis REALLY wants to glow, I think it'd be alot easier to just paint her with some blacklight paint! :>

Still, I'm quite honored to have inspired a comic. Thanks alot, Summer. You made my 4th!

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad that you enjoyed it. :)

[knnyx.livejournal.com]

when i went sailing i saw bioluminescent jelly fish and things
but then ...they showed us a glow stick type thing made out of little dried...like...creatures almost,they once were alive,but i cant remember what they are called...but you mush or crunch them up...and then mix water in...and they glow....BLUE
tampering?
idk
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[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

very cool! I love seeing bioluminescent marine organisma...I've never heard of dried creatures still having those properties, though. cool! There are a lot of neat colors jellyfish and other critters glow...in pictures I've seen green, blue, yellow, pink, reds...in nature I've just seen greens and yellows. :)