<![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> This story is made of pure WTF!

Eltigro

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @Gann: a better late than never very, very nice!

bosskev

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Victimless Leather's a rather clever name, but it just occured to me, that doesn't this mean getting "Murderless Burgers" is quite a bit closer if they can do stuff like this? The picture made me get "Weird Science" stuck in my head.

Mr.Wilson

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @frndlybnny: you forgot homeostasis. But I'd still make sex to it hahaha jk.

@poorGeek: how are viruses alive? They don't really do anything except replicate themselves. More similar to this mouse jacket than an actual mouse IMO

First thing I thought of while reading this was, of all things, the ZERG. I mean, if we can make a 'living' coat, why not 'living' buildings.... or Hatcheries.... Anyway, its a cool idea, if very Lovecraftian.

And since it came up, stem cell research for the win! I think the whole 'fetus donors' issue is just a temporary problem; we're clever enough to find a better way to do it as long as we don't chicken out now.

VENAT0R

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> The Mouse Jackets were created by Man.
They got too big for their flasks.
They Rebelled.
There are many copies.
And they have a Plan.

macserv

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @Atsumi: I've kinda always wanted to buy Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson a really nice fur coat and pay him to wear it around everywhere. -Especially California.

:D

wonkydonky

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Bio-Engineering is the future, along with nano tech and that new quantum computing tech and thost new regular electronic computer things.

Then I saw this picture. Gosh, I dunno. Think about the kind of life it lived. It reminds me of that video of lobster pacman...9 lobsters needed to cross a little maze, and on the other side was freedom. If they missed they fell down into a giant steaming pot of hot boiling water. They didn't feel anything, but still.

I dunno. A stem cell isn't a living thing (and can be made from skin! yay!). A Mouse in the shape of a coat...well, I', just so confused.

Uber_lompocus

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @frndlybnny: yeah exactly. the whole "alive" thing was much more "really deep and thought-provoking statement from an artist" than what you would call "fact".

x23

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Uh...wow.

shenanigans61

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @Kaiser-Machead: More sex, more embryos, more stem cells, more fur coats... a new industry is launched!

whootowl

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @ Kaiser-Machead: Or you could just grow yourself a profalactic...uh..condom

weshirecat

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> And how is it victimless if it had to be killed?

badweasel

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> did it have any kind of soul?

vote Obama

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Zort

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @Curves: But Curves, if we had sex all the time, we'd waste all of our money on burn ointments.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Instead of "Who you tailor?" they will say "Who's you stemcell donor?"

Set to evil

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> And people are offended by fur coats.

Wait until this hit's the market, PETA.

Atsumi

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @Kaiser-Machead: The more I ponder this article the more it frightens me. So I just switch my ponderings back to their normal patterns of thinking about sex all the time. So if youre thinking about sex (or how weird this mouse thing is) then yes.

Curves

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Don't expect it to tango; it has a broken back.

(name that movie...)

SigmundTheSeaMonster

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> W(ho)TF thinks of doing these things?

brb after i go barf

wolfenstein-3d

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Star Trek Episode: The Trouble With Ratjackets

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Jean Luc Picard would not approve.

Subterfuge

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @elephantattack: not just growing clothes
regrowing patient specific skin for burn victims is a big possibility for similar research. Most burn victims die due to complications stemming from the loss of skin

Regrowing damaged organs is also a possibility, although much farther down the road.

@frndlybnny: I've always found that system to be out dated, it makes viruses to be 'not alive' and that always annoyed the virologist part of me

poorGeek

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> They need to apply this to growing chicken coats. We would have an endless supply of tasty chicken skin!!

mmmmmm.... geneticaly created chicken skin... (drools)

Mr.SithNinja

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @scarbrtj:
It actually was in the original manuscript but later was removed because it was scarring the crap out of little kids. I actually read that book for the first time last week.


DaveH.

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @Kaiser-Machead: I think it's "thinking"

Joseph

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Ahh, I'm glad there's guys out there tackling the difficult questions like curing cancer... Wait what? This story is about growing clothes?

elephantattack

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> neat-o -
if they can do this with mice bits - what about a nice armadillo suit-of-armour -or-
fantastico scaly alligator suit -or-
wear your favorite dog/cat/budgie -or-
get a complete 'authentic' gorilla costume...

the product possibilities are endless...
whens the IPO?

designguybrown

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @Curves: Are you pondering what I'm pondering?

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> I don't know if this cell-cluster meets the criteria for life. They are: growth, metabolism, reproduction, movement, and responding to environmental stimulus.

It obviously grew, since the reason it had to be "euthanized" was that it got too big for its container. It also metabolized the nutrient broth (since that was how it grew). However, could it reproduce? Could it move under its own power? Could it respond to environmental stimuli? I doubt it: it doesn't appear it had any muscle tissue or sensory organs to be able to move or even detect environmental stimuli. As for reproduction, while it is obvious that mitosis (cell division) was occurring, I doubt that it had the mechanisms necessary to create another complete copy of itself through asexual reproduction. I'm VERY sure that it couldn't have been able to reproduce sexually, either.

Since it only demonstrated 2 out of the 5 characteristics of life, I'm going to go with that it wasn't alive.

frndlybnny

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> How did she get it to grow coat shaped? Wouldn't it be more practical to grow a large sheet of leather and then cut it down? You could grow it over a form for seemless sleeves.

Now we just need to grow giant controllable humanoid organisms out of stem cells, and find kids with emotional instability to pilot them.

Solaricide

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> .

uberfu

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]>

God damn !

I was there in January and all of a sudden both MoMA and the MET have killer Displays up and I missed them_

Both of these would have been freakin' awesome_

I can see it now - the next fad Living Coats - all they have to do is figure out some way to regulate "feeding" the coat without adding in a mouth or "poop shoot"_

And then i suppose the question becomes do you buy one in the local clothing shop or pet store?

uberfu

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @reddingofish: It was like 2 days ago

workingonyourinvoice

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> OK, I just threw up a little in my mouth.

Sora57

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> That is awesome!
Right out of Frankenstein!

I'm telling ya, a Drive-thru organ replacement clinic is not to far in the distant future. Going in for a new organ or two will be like getting new tires on your car today.


nospamsam

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @DeadWriter: They should bring ALF back seriously!

Crescent

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Pinky and the Brain just got all to serious.

Curves

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Funny you shold mention ALF, I believe that they Alf costume was made from cat stem cells turned into a crappy alien costume and left to die in the second season.

Hand_O_Death

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @N@tedog: And, if so, how did it smell?

Shutaro

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> and ethics just got trickier.

amazing, though, i'd wear it.

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @flyboy: Don't you mean our new (mouse) lord overcoats?

BigDogues

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Would this be a gadget or should this post be on io9?

reddingofish

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> I personally welcome our now Mouse Jacket overlords.

In Soviet Russa Mouse jackets grow you and kill you when you out grow your enclosure.

UPDATE: PETA and the Right to Lifers unite.

anon26

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Isn't this the kind of foolery that has the right-to-life folks fighting the expansion of stem cell research?

whootowl

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @N@tedog: yeah where is it buried?

vote Obama

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> What are we doing tonight Brain ?

Same thing we do every night Pinky... We're going to try to take over the world.... Using a giant coat engineered from our own stem cells.

ultim8fury

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Did she at least make a glove out of it?

N@tedog

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @Gann: They could make thinner coats that shiver to keep you warm.

GeekyNerdGuy

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> A mass of one kind of cell, growing uncontrollably until its food source is cut off?

Congratulations, boffins!!! You've created a coat of skin cancer!

My earlier statements elsewhere on lab-meat go something like this...

"Yeah, here's how to make meat more appealing to me: Grow it in a vat."

I think this applies to leather just as well.

DJ Oxygen

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> so gross.

MrBlahBlah

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> This kind of genetic mutilation just makes me sick..Uggh, its enough to make me want to stop eating my mousejacket burger.

kmpu-tah

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Is this the future?

"Where's your jacket?! It's freezing out!"

"I left it in the car overnight and it froze to death. They've got it on life support, but the insurance company is denying the claim due to negligence on my part."

"Time to pull the plug?"

*cries*

workingonyourinvoice

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> @mariogalaxyman: So you'd put on a coat because you were cold, then the coat would ask you to put on another coat because it was cold.

Gann

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> I can't wait for Version II: The Sentient Coat.

mariogalaxyman

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> "That thing was never alive before it was grown."

... Nothing that was alive now was alive before it was first grown, either.

Also: creepy. I always thought it'd be cool to have a pair of pants that'd repair itself, but I'd rather not have it do so by bleeding or actually getting scar tissue or something (if you'd keep it alive when wearing it).

Reilaos~

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> They should have seen if this could bond to a hairless mouse to become a new entity.

mariogalaxyman

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> I would much rather wear a leather jacket made of mouse than cow, NOT! Hell, I'm a vegetarian and I wouldn't want that stuff.

maven2k

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Not entirely "victimless" if the embryo was killed to get the stem cells.

Cross-eyedCyclops

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> why oh why don't they bring ALF back?

moogoescow

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> ALF v.s. ALF

"Where I'm from, this is ludicrous. It's like having a funeral for a hamburger." - ALF (Alien Life Form, Gordon Shumway)

"Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are call medical research." ALF (Animal Liberation Front, quoting George Bernard Shaw)

DeadWriter

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> I say fry it up and mousejacketburgers for everyone!

workingonyourinvoice

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> WTF? Is this for real?

ripfire

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> But can they grow a Shacky's Pizza yet?

ACoBildo

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Stuart Little meets the Silence of the Lambs

DeadWriter

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> i for one welcome our new coat overlords.

wait ... it died?

vote Obama

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Usually the killing happens before the jacket is made.

Gann

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> OK...

They grew a little tiny jacket...

In a lab vessel...

It grew too large for its container... This little tiny, moist, growing jacket...

WHAT IN THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN HERE?!!!!!?

DustyButt

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> If You Give a Mouse a Cookie...

she will yield some healthy mice embryos from which we can harvest stem cells, and grow ectodermal protoplasm from said cells.

Now that wasn't in the book, I'm quite sure.

scarbrtj

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Victimless? What about the fact that I'm not going to sleep right for a week now?

They just changed who the victim is.

bpatten

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> I think I'm going to be sick...

middy

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> This could be the "victimless meat" that PETA are offering big $$$ for! It doesn't belong in a museum, it belongs on the plate of a vegetarian!

Bitstuff

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Someone needs to just put Frankensteins' monster together and be done with it. I got my torch ready.

StyleSwag

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> I for one welcome our new....

Aw, forget it, it's too early.

EBone

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Kill a jacket? This is the stuff of Twilight Zone.

Curves

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> That is so cool! Work of pure evil genius. Movie coming out next Christmas for that little extra creepyness we all need at that time.

Bitstuff

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Is she selling home kits for this?

GeekyNerdGuy

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> Is there electricity involved in this experiment?

Joseph

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> "one of the odder stories" seems like a bit of an understatement.

That is whole new levels of odd.

tande04

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> And then the coats evolve, digesting our wallets in their pocket stomaches, and eventually grafting themselves to our spines so we become vehicles to do their bidding.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> What if it was a living cheeseburger? Would she also feel bad if it got too big? What if she ate it?
I see this as no different than cutting off a mole. Those are just a bunch of living cells, too. And probably just as hairy.

Aunt_Snowman

]]> <![CDATA[Mouse Jacket Grown, Euthanized In Museum Lab]]> That is creepy to the nth level!

Galley

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