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Community => Science and Technology => Topic started by: gyeonghwa on January 16, 2012, 02:33:24 am

Title: The Skin Gun
Post by: gyeonghwa on January 16, 2012, 02:33:24 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y5H9Sasq5U

This looks neat! I wonder if we could put it into more common use.
Title: Re: The Skin Gun
Post by: Iczerfour on January 17, 2012, 02:55:13 pm
Why Are We Not Funding this?!
Title: Re: The Skin Gun
Post by: anti-nonsense on January 17, 2012, 04:58:45 pm
because funding things that actually help people is what mutant commie traitors do! </republican herpderp>
Title: Re: The Skin Gun
Post by: The Right Honourable Mlle Antéchrist on January 17, 2012, 06:22:20 pm
Wow. I'm completely floored by how successful the treatment was. Science is fucking awesome.

It'll be interesting to see how well it works on third degree burns.
Title: Re: The Skin Gun
Post by: Vene on January 17, 2012, 06:22:29 pm
Quote from: Iczerfour on January 17, 2012, 02:55:13 pm
Why Are We Not Funding this?!
Who says we're not? Looking up the topic a little bit (without necessarily watching the video) it looks like it's being worked on by Dr. Jörg Gerlach of the University of Pittsburgh’s McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine [1] (http://www.dakotavoice.com/2011/02/skin-gun-uses-adult-stem-cells) and I can find publications from them [2] (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2895759/) [3] (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2819805/) which were funded in part by the National Institutes of Health. So, the reason we're not funding this is because we're funding this.
Title: Re: The Skin Gun
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on January 18, 2012, 03:30:02 am
So freakin' cool...
Title: Re: The Skin Gun
Post by: Radiation on January 20, 2012, 02:06:05 pm
When I saw the title of the thread I thought that we had invented a way to implant projectile weapons under someone's skin.

Either way this awesome itself and probably will be better for burn victims in the future.
Title: Re: The Skin Gun
Post by: Da Rat Bastid on January 20, 2012, 09:02:44 pm
Peyton, is that you? ;D

(20 points to the first one who gets that reference.)
Title: Re: The Skin Gun
Post by: Jodie on January 22, 2012, 06:37:51 pm
That is one of the coolest things I have evar seen!