So now we have rat-like things defending the ocean?

Who knew Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong had annexed the ocean?

"...we were able to reproduce some pretty complex swimming and feeding behaviors that you see in biological jellyfish,"

o_O

TsarTom: "...we were able to reproduce some pretty complex swimming and feeding behaviors that you see in biological jellyfish,"

o_O

Yeah, I'm going to have to see a more detailed article (preferably peer reviewed) before I buy that. Heart muscle cells on a silicon substrate will absorb nutrients from the media they are in... just as they would when cultured in an agar dish.

Reads more like typical Harvard bullshiat science... "hey look, we took a culture of cells and stuck them on a substrate, we created a jellyfish!"... No you didn't, you have muscle cells behaving as every culture of muscle cells has behaved ever.

PhDemented: TsarTom: "...we were able to reproduce some pretty complex swimming and feeding behaviors that you see in biological jellyfish,"

o_O

Yeah, I'm going to have to see a more detailed article (preferably peer reviewed) before I buy that. Heart muscle cells on a silicon silicone substrate will absorb nutrients from the media they are in... just as they would when cultured in an agar dish..

Tatas not motherboards

Soon:



Link's hot, like Samus in Norfair

Headline makes me think of Senator Kelly from the first X-men movie.

I read elesewhere that a water vortex is created by the motion of movement, which directs food toward the mouth of jellyfish. This might be the "feeding behaviour", because there ain't much else.

I think I have seen this movie and things do not end well. I for one welcome our new rat-jellyfish overlords.

Saberus Terras: Soon:

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Link's hot, like Samus in Norfair

And you know what happens when those things start evolving.

/Tried to post Metroid Queen pic.
//Work's firewall blocked it.

Still waiting to find out how Debbie Gibson and Tiffany are going to play in to this discovery.

And here I was just thinking the other day...you know what would be awesome...a rat with tentacles.

This is going to shake up the all natural, family farmed, locally sourced organic jellyfish manufacturers.

Now this is the kind of Creation Science I can get behind!

/Take that, God!

Don't look in the sewers.

"As engineers, we are very comfortable with building things out of steel, copper, concrete," he says. "I think of cells as another kind of building substrate, but we need rigorous quantitative design specs to move tissue engineering to a reproducible type of engineering. The jellyfish provides a design algorithm for reverse engineering an organ's function and developing quantitative design and performance specifications. We can complete the full exercise of the engineer's design process: design, build, and test."


Amateurs

/hot like Noomi Rapace

wont they be impressed, I am a genius
see how I transform this old rat
into a most delightful.......jellyfish...


/skeleton jack approves

We are like three steps from Half Life, people.