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.

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[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.