Re: HOW is this possible?

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 6/8/07, Gary Warner <gar () askgar com> wrote:
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> - -- Preacher's wife Mary Winkler, who killed her husband with a shotgun
> blast to the back as he lay in bed, is sentenced to three years -- 210
> days in prison and the rest on probation.

Better yet, how is this possible:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/07/the_men_with_two_brains/

Israeli boffins bring life to human neuron culture
Plan to install bottled brains in 'cyborg machines'

Israeli boffins may be on the road to building artificial, living
human brains which can function without a body to support them.
Honest.

According to an article in yesterday's Scientific American, Tel Aviv
university researchers led by biophysicist Eshel ben-Jacob have
manipulated cultured human brain cells so as to "imprint persisting
multiple memories" on them.

The research was revealed in a paper published last month by the
American Physical Society, titled "Towards [a] Neuro-memory-chip:
Imprinting multiple memories in cultured neural networks" (abstract
here).

Ben-Jacob and his fellow boffins apparently mounted their
artificially-cultured brain tissue on "a polymer panel studded with
electrodes." (Won't be long before they start using full-size brains
in jars of bubbling transparent fluid, we reckon.) The scientists then
injected the hapless culture with "picrotoxin, a cocktail of
gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)."

Apparently, "the cells on the electrode array came from the cortex,
the outermost layer of the brain known for its role in memory
formation," though it wasn't clear whose cortex or how they got the
slime out of the donor's head.


-JP<who thinks Gadi has been holding out>
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