Rat cells grown on silicon: Let the twisted experiments begin
A group of scientists have successfully grafted rat cells onto silicon, creating mini cyber beasts that move as the living cells contract. What's more, the living cells are successfully growing on the microscopic silicon chips. They say this could be the beginning of a whole new kind of creature, half silicon, half biological cell. We don't have any pictures, but the descriptions are straight out of a Cronenberg nightmare: "A microdevice had two 'legs' extending from the body at 45-degree angles; each leg had a 'foot' extending at a 45-degree angle." Yum.
