So I Guess *This* Is What Passes for Science These Days

How to build a jellyfish out of a rat – video | Science | guardian.co.uk

Tissue engineers at Caltech and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have set about recreating entire organisms. Instead of using steel and copper to build their machines they're using living cells, and have already created a creature out of muscle cells that is genetically a rat – but that looks and swims a bit like a jellyfish.