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Workshop Booze Up VII - New Year, Same Plague, Same Booze Up, Deja Vu
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Pentagathus
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - The Booze Awakens
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June 10, 2016, 06:32:53 PM »
I peeled a rat's brain and mushed parts of it up into a cellular soup. Good times.
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - The Booze Awakens
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June 10, 2016, 06:46:50 PM »
How do you peel a brain? Does it have an outer membrane of some sort?
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - The Booze Awakens
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June 10, 2016, 06:52:44 PM »
Did you then eat the soup to gain the rat's knowledge?
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Pentagathus
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - The Booze Awakens
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June 10, 2016, 07:58:09 PM »
It does indeed have an outer membrane, or rather outer membranes, the meninges. I did not drink the soup, the rat was only one day old so it's knowledge was presumably not worth drinking. I put the soup on some silk.
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - The Booze Awakens
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June 10, 2016, 08:18:23 PM »
A-ha. Presumably the meninges are the membranes whose swelling causing meningitis - when they swell up, then can't expand outwards (because of the skull) so they expand inwards, squeezing the brain. Squeezed brains don't tend to work very well
Next silly question: why did you put the rat brain soup on the silk?
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - The Booze Awakens
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June 10, 2016, 09:00:56 PM »
Because otherwise it gets the hose again.
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Pentagathus
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - The Booze Awakens
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June 11, 2016, 05:35:12 PM »
No hoses cowman, I didn't even eat the rat's kidneys with fava beans and a nice Chianti.
It puts the soup on the silk to assess how well cortical neurons grow on that particular silk, to be used as a control for assessing how well they grow on the silk with DHA being present. And ultimately to see if addition of DHA can overcome the effects of an inhibitory environment.
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - The Booze Awakens
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June 14, 2016, 06:04:46 PM »
I finally seem to be in a fairly prolonged crash-phase after my weekend away; I've got an annoying sore throat and my brain is pretty non-functional for any useful purposes today
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June 14, 2016, 10:12:48 PM »
Penty: OK, I think I understand. Certainly silk seems like an inhibitory environment for neurones to grow in, as opposed to more conventional places like brains, or at least places with a circulatory system to supply nutrients.
Jubal: I fear I may have infected you over the weekend
If so, I'm very sorry.
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June 14, 2016, 11:35:00 PM »
I don't think the symptoms are terribly similar to yours, it's a sore throat but it's not inducing coughing - I was around a lot of people at the weekend, more so than usual, and could have picked it up in any number of places.
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June 14, 2016, 11:40:01 PM »
OK, hopefully I have defeated the evil virus's plan to conquer the world.
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June 15, 2016, 01:50:14 AM »
Painted a house today.
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June 15, 2016, 04:21:51 AM »
I got out of bed today.
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Re: Workshop Booze Up VII - The Booze Awakens
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June 15, 2016, 09:00:42 PM »
No G, the silk is being tested as a potential guidance scaffold (across the empty cysts formed in spinal cord injury), the inhibitory environment will be made by using chemicals.
It turns out making these silk dishes is even harder when you're focusing hard on sneezing all over them.
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June 15, 2016, 10:32:31 PM »
OK, thanks for the explanation: it makes a lot more sense now.
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