[gurps] Cool Nerve cell growth info

[hal at buffnet.net]

At 05:10 PM 7/19/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>   Somehow it's not a suprize about China getting the
>brightest minds in the field of stem cells... you
>could see that coming as soon as they passed the
>massively restrictive laws about stem cell research in
>Canada and the US. Eventually Canada/US/Europe will be
>the 3rd world in terms of new biomedical procedures if
>they keep passing laws telling people what they can
>and can't research. Alas.
>
>   What I found interesting is that they are starting
>to embed the correct cell signaling protiens into the
>scaffold. I wonder if there is research into the
>signaling molecules/proteins/TFs for the connections
>(my guess is there has to be).
>
>-Sue-considering-reviving-her-cyberpunk-campaign

As is the case in many of our sciences - it begins with but the small steps
first, and giant leaps later.  Being able to manuever the mouse with what
originally were "cheek muscle squences" and now are outright just
brain/computer interfaces seems to presage the capability for cyberpunk
like add ons.  I suspect that the next 50 years or so will bring a few
things from BIOTECH and CYBERPUNK into our lives (for those of us who live
50 years!).  Go for it Sue, revive  your cyberpunk campaign - I've been
wishing I *COULD*  (My group isn't much on sci-fi, and we're currently
playing D&D these days - something I thought I'd never do! <G>)

          Hal