The World’s Most Detailed Scan Of The Brain’s Internal Wiring Has Been Produced By Scientists At

kinda cool to think how someone somewhere is having the best day of their life today. someone’s hearing “i love you” for the first time today. someone’s gonna meet the love of their life today. someone’s gonna get the job of their dreams today. it’s someone’s best day today. and guess what binch? tomorrow it could be ur best day so keep going

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5 things you didn’t know about...bone-healing nanofibres

Credit: Riitta-Leena Inki

1. They are thin-film and fibrous biomaterials with similar structures and regeneration rates to that of bone.  

2. They were developed by Jani Holopainen, a doctoral researcher in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

3. The hydroxyapatite fibres are produced on a needleless, twisted wire electrospinning apparatus.

4. They could be used in bone implants and as scaffolding for bone regeneration. Cellular tests have been made already, but medical application is a way off.

5. The nanofibres would be used as a scaffold on the bone fracture or fault, activating the bone cells to reproduce. As the new cells are generated the nanofibres disintegrate, meaning there would be no need for further surgery to remove the nanofibre scaffold.

Find out more about this on page 21 of the upcoming March issue of Materials World.  

me as a child: labs are spotless and big and scary…………everything is high tech and everyone is super smart and knows everything…….

all actual labs ever:

It’s kind of fucked up when you realize the image of the quaint 1950s leave it to beaver family with the housewife and hard working husband is a propaganda model that had to be adopted to justify stripping women of their jobs they were able to get during WWII. Like women literally proved they could keep an industria wartime economy afloat without men and society had to craft some serious insidious shit to get them back into the home.

I’ll say it again: Scientists have created a synthetic stingray that’s propelled by living muscle cells and controlled by light.

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But the ultimate goal isn’t a cyborg sea monster - it’s a human heart.

“I want to build an artificial heart, but you’re not going to go from zero to a whole heart overnight,” says Kit Parker, a bioengineer and physicist at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute. “This is a training exercise.”

Full, fascinating story here.

Yes I’m reposting… but this is my absolute favorite post. Great way to start to my intense day, full of cramming and memorizing pages and pages of lab procedures. 

ok kids repeat after me

vinegar and bleach makes chlorine gas, which is highly toxic

ammonia and bleach makes chloramine, which is highly toxic

rubbing alcohol and bleach makes chloroform, which is highly toxic

hydrogen peroxide and vinegar makes peracetic/peroxyacetic acid, which can be highly corrosive

be careful about your cleaning products and dont get yourself injured or potentially killed ok

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