Here's an open secret: there is a fine line between
"science" and "mad science." But do you know when someone has crossed the line?
Here are the most insane things ever
developed in a lab. You judge which scientists were geniuses and which were crazies!
1
The plasma globe was invented accidentally by an MIT undergrad, who was working in a lab to create electrical rocket engines. Right after inventing it, he naturally brought it to his girlfriend's house party.
2
The Rockefeller University lab developed an experimental mutant variety of mosquitoes called orco that causes the mosquitoes to no longer be repelled by the smell of DEET.
3
A research team has shown that a lab-made molecule that mimics an antibody from our immune system may have more protective power than anything the body produces, keeping four monkeys free of HIV infection despite injection of large doses of the virus.
4
Many artificial sweeteners were discovered by accident in a lab
5
An infant's circumcised foreskin can produce four acres of grafting skin in a lab.
6
Scientists created a hormone in a lab in the 1930s that was first prescribed to treat breast cancer but later found to actually cause breast cancer.
7
Miniature human brains have been grown in a lab.
8
In 2006 a Penis was grown in a Lab and Successfully Transplanted onto a Rabbit
9
There is only a 13% chance that "molly" has any traces of MDMA in it. The majority of "molly" pills are untested synthetic chemicals made in a lab in China.
10
A true Human-Pig Hybrid (Chimera) was Created in a Lab in California
11
Researchers at Japan’s Kyoto University created and sold cheesecake made from ape feces. Researchers cultivated the feces’ bacteria in a lab before using it to make a dairy product, which was then used to make the cheesecake. According to reports, it has a ‘distinct flavor’.
12
Computer viruses were first theorized in the early 1950's. The first virus was actually written in a lab by a researcher in 1971. The first virus ever discovered in the wild was written in 1982 by a 15-year-old.
13
Diamonds are no longer regarded as the hardest substance on earth. There are multiple harder substances out there most of which were synthesized in a lab. Some are naturally occurring but super rare in nature.
14
Spider Silk is 5 times stronger than steel and ultra-light the possibilities in uses are vast. There exists a spider goat born by gene splicing in labs that has spider genes and can produce silk in its milk.
15
4 teens with vaginal aplasia (born with no vagina) received vagina implants grown in a lab using their own vulva tissue biopsies & pelvic scans. Later, all reported normal arousal, lubrication, intercourse, orgasm; 2 women were able to have the vagina connected to the uterus for reproduction.
16
Male platypus venom contains a hormone that promotes insulin release, called GLP-1; it's found in humans but degrades quickly. Platypuses make a long-lasting form of it, paving the way to new diabetes treatment; the platypus GLP-1 can be made in the lab so no platypuses will be needed for it.
17
Researchers evolved a multicellular yeast in the lab in 2 months
18
The cloud chamber, a device that made particle physics possible, was invented by accident by Charles Wilson when he tried to re-create a rare form of rainbow in the lab
19
Scientists have found liquid water as cold as -40 °F (-40 °C) in clouds and even cooled water down to -42 °F (-41.11 °C) in the lab.
20
Saccharin was accidentally discovered by a Russian chemist who forgot to wash his hands after working in the lab and noticed his food tasted quite sweet, and after ruling out the possibility of the food being made that way, he concluded that it was due to the chemicals coating his hands.
21
Genetically engineered pigs and organs grown from scratch in labs are solutions to improve the shortage of organ donors.
22
Immortal cancer cells taken from a dying woman (Henrietta Lacks) in 1951 have reproduced billions of times and can now be found in labs all over the world.
23
Scientists created chicken embryos with dinosaur snouts in lab
24
Taurine, a common ingredient in energy drinks, was first isolated from the bile of an ox, but now is synthesized in labs. Cat food is required by law to contain taurine, since cats without a taurine-rich diet will go blind, and lose their hair and teeth.
25
Bruce Alexander, an experimental psychologist, studied addiction in lab rats, and created Rat Park -- A Rat Utopian World in which rats almost always refused drugs (morphine), while rats in solitary confinement overdosed on a regular basis.
