Putting Jellyfish Proteins in Human Cells Makes Lasers

[Nayr]

This is kind of cool, in my cell biology lab at university this past year my prof who is a geneticist actually took jellyfish DNA and had the genes put into human cells to make them bioluminescent. Kind of neat to see that type of genetic engineering used to create lasers.

Actually when they talk about the cells being used for scanning or seeing what cells are doing, really this would be one of the best ways to detect cancer early on. Being able to detect hyperplasia (rapid cell growth) normally takes many machines to detect this accurately. Especially is cells are growing rapidly, that would be great to be able to detect.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Sweet! How long before I can shoot lasers out of my eyes?

Try never.


Light need to go in the eyes to see. Will you get rid of your sight to use laser beams?


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You could try nipple beams though.

 

[Tartarga]

Curse you science! Why did you only start doing the really cool stuff after I had graduated from school?

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Sweet! How long before I can shoot lasers out of my eyes?

Try never.


Light need to go in the eyes to see. Will you get rid of your sight to use laser beams?


..

You could try nipple beams though.

Killjoy! Stop ruining my fantasies with your reality!

 

[Logic 0]

That means were one step closer to eye lasers.

Spoiler

I'm going to enjoy the future

 

[Nimbus]

Lasing?

Lasing?

Best. Verb. Ever.

 

[penguindude42]

Sweet! How long before I can shoot lasers out of my eyes?

Try never.


Light need to go in the eyes to see. Will you get rid of your sight to use laser beams?


..

You could try nipple beams though.

Killjoy! Stop ruining my fantasies with your reality!

LAAAAAAAAAAZZZZEERRRR NNNIPPPPPLLLEEEESSSS!!!!!!!

*pyooooo-*

~Tom Is A-Firin' His Lazor

 

[llafnwod]

Lasing?

Lasing?

Best. Verb. Ever.

It's pretty much accepted now. Apparently even Harvard's forgotten that the damn word is an acronym.

 

[icame]

Oh science, you so awesome. I wonder why they thought that would do anything...

 

[LCP]

Somebody will be able to project with his dick in the future... thanks science! and Yahtzee...

 

[Innegativeion]

This is excellent!

but...

Get back to me when you figure out how to make it controllable by thought alone, and from any part of the body of a living organism... ANY part.

 

[sheogoraththemad]

Praise Science!

 

[teebeeohh]

so in the near future women who get annoyed when men stare at their boobs could burn those guys eyes out?

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Im kind of wondering what the practical applications of this is?

Doctors could turn the patients cells into lasers? How would that even work. Could it help in trating inoperable tumors or scar tissue within spinal columns to heal paralysis where it would normally be too dangerous to laser. Hmm, exciting.

 

[WishThisWasIGN]

I am signing up for kidney/finger/eye/fuckingcyclopspower trials right after the boffins come through for me on the radioactive spider bite clinical trials.

 

[Nayr]

Im kind of wondering what the practical applications of this is?

Doctors could turn the patients cells into lasers? How would that even work. Could it help in trating inoperable tumors or scar tissue within spinal columns to heal paralysis where it would normally be too dangerous to laser. Hmm, exciting.

If people had cells with bioluminescent proteins in them, then yeah you are pretty much right on. A cell which would be cancerous, or tumours would produce abundant amounts of these bioluminescent proteins, so this would make it easier to track or "mark" these potentially cancerous cells or tumours. So cancerous tumours would be locaed early in development.

It's actually really exciting, if you read my post on the previous page I mentioned I actually saw bioluminescent jellyfish proteins in other cells before. Cool someone else picked out the cancer thing though too!

 

[SD-Fiend]

Sweet! How long before I can shoot lasers out of my eyes?

Try never.


Light need to go in the eyes to see. Will you get rid of your sight to use laser beams?


..

You could try nipple beams though.

well I would imagine you go blind for a few seconds and probably have to recharge by staring into a bright light if you wan to use it for more then 1 per 5 hours

 

[spectrenihlus]

Soon, so very soon.