Rat implanted with green LED to restore bladder control

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/01/02/rat-implanted-with-green-led-t.html

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Let me know when they figure out to stop kidney stones from forming.

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  1. gene edit humans to produce “nerve cells involved in bladder-brain signaling to make a light-sensitive protein.”

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  3. Profit!

This could actually be underwear gnomes though

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That’s got to be a bit embarrassing in front of a urinal.

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Don’t need a night-light at home though!

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Not as much as the accompanying klaxon.

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So for this to work in humans step one is genetically engineer someone to have a light sensitive bladder, then wait the approximate 70 years for them to get old enough to suffer incontinence and then treat them.

/s

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SO right. They are a real scourge of human existence. I’ve often wondered how people in the eighteenth century survived the damn things. Maybe they just died of pain.

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Meh I passed a second 5mm one a few months ago. Knowing exactly what the pain is helps a lot and so does about 600mg of ibuprofen.
The drinking a ton of water and peeing all the time was the worst part.

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Alas poor IllumiBowl…

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Knowing you need comically large casino drinks at a roller coaster park was the third half of the battle too, right? 4th being at an amusement part that takes medical scrip? [Trying to refer to the ability of roller coasters (the drop) to help dislodge stones.]

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hey flicker dick, is that an incontinent rat in in your pocket or are you just happy to see me

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You know, instead of genetically engineering rats (and then people) to have photosensitive bladders, why not engineer them to not be incontinent?

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Doesn’t Green means “Go” usually?

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Let me guess, yellow LEDs are more expensive than green ones.

That’s a classic problem I’ve run up against while computering – does a state transition represent an action to be taken or an action that has been taken? Does the coupling between state and action imply atomicity, or does a state transition simply mean just that, and actions that cause or are caused by the transition are non-atomic consequences.

Whatever the right answer is, you better be consistent across all of your states, otherwise lots of wet pants.

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And they say, “yellow means go faster”! :rofl:

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