Miniature brain and skull found inside 16-year-old girl’s ovary - Polidicks

Man, that sucks for her. Turned out that that little kid was a bad egg after all. Seriously though, that's pretty brutal. Hopefully she didn't end up losing an ovary over it.

Reminded me of this. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ROxVn1k.png[/IMG]

Well that's what you get when you get in the box. (is that the right one?)

"I have eyes at the back of my head" "Yeah? Well I had a brain and a skull inside my ovary."

[QUOTE=Weirdo009;51636570]Reminded me of this. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ROxVn1k.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] If anyone is wondering what it's from it's from this. [url]http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/542658[/url]

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;51636337]Isn't there a theory that the human species will eventually evolve to not need males? Maybe millions of years down the line rogue ovarian cells will be making more complete humans than a micro brain and skull :v: Imagine getting pregnant randomly at any time in your life[/QUOTE] No mammal has been known to naturally perform parthenogenesis and the experimented ones that were genetically engineered to do so resulted in significant deformations unless the fetuses were [i]also[/i] engineered, so unlikely. It's also speculated that vertebrate parthenogenesis, although some species are now unisexual, is undesirable, as many individual reptiles that undergo successful parthenogenesis still seek males, and the species that are unisexual tend to frequently hybridize with related species' males (presumably due to a combination of instinct and that genetic information of effective clones gets progressively worse wtih each generation via corruption of the genes)

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;51635760]That's basically what a tumor is. Teratomas just get really freaky with it.[/QUOTE] I mean, really, they're doing the same thing the rest of the 'normal' cells in your body are doing, just in the wrong areas.

As someone previously mentioned before teratomas don't function. Is that because it's just a a brain and has no sensory extensions to draw learning stimulus from or just the nature of what they are? And if a functioning brain were to form with no way to draw stimulus what would it think or would it even be able think? Would it just be a lump from lack of information, or would it create information where there is a lack of? Sorry the idea is cool.

wow. a brain? that basically means its a person. that's WAY more advanced than even a poor precious embryo. we need to make a law against cutting out teratomas until it's confirmed that they can't be incubated and raised as full humans. if god saw fit to create this brain, we should have allowed it to exist. (/s)

imagine if the teratoma had gone undetected for several more years ... do you think it would have branched its own neural connections to "link" with the rest of the body's perceived information? what if it then became conscious / sentient? if it had become sentient, would it have been ethical to remove it? would they have attempted to try and transplant it into a dead body? obviously it wouldn't but good thought experiment

I take my hat off to surgeons, seeing something like this would make me vomit from the sound of the description

[QUOTE=Quark:;51637421]imagine if the teratoma had gone undetected for several more years ... do you think it would have branched its own neural connections to "link" with the rest of the body's perceived information? what if it then became conscious / sentient?[/QUOTE] Usually what happens is the immune system notices it and goes "WHAT THE HECK IS THIS? DESTROY IT" and starts attacking it. But then it goes "SHIT THERE'S A LOT MORE OF IT UP HERE, ATTACK" and starts attacking the person's actual brain in confusion. At that point the person will have moderate to severe symptoms and go to the hospital. Doctors searching for the cause discover the teratoma and have it removed, which also calms the immune system and stops it from attacking the body.

Google teratona Annnnnnndddd NOPE

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;51637454]Usually what happens is the immune system notices it and goes "WHAT THE HECK IS THIS? DESTROY IT" and starts attacking it. But then it goes "SHIT THERE'S A LOT MORE OF IT UP HERE, ATTACK" and starts attacking the person's actual brain in confusion. At that point the person will have moderate to severe symptoms and go to the hospital. Doctors searching for the cause discover the teratoma and have it removed, which also calms the immune system and stops it from attacking the body.[/QUOTE] well of course, the autoimmune response is very sudden and a bitch. but ignore that, and assume it won't happen ever. what do you think would've happened to this extra brain? :v:

[QUOTE=Quark:;51645445]well of course, the autoimmune response is very sudden and a bitch. but ignore that, and assume it won't happen ever. what do you think would've happened to this extra brain? :v:[/QUOTE] "Nothing" is probably the boring and predictable answer.

[QUOTE=Quark:;51637421]imagine if the teratoma had gone undetected for several more years ... do you think it would have branched its own neural connections to "link" with the rest of the body's perceived information? what if it then became conscious / sentient? if it had become sentient, would it have been ethical to remove it? would they have attempted to try and transplant it into a dead body? obviously it wouldn't but good thought experiment[/QUOTE] I am tempted to post a reaction image but I don't want to get banned... First off.. [b][i]dead[/i][/b] body... secondly, this thing is a tumor. It has no sense of self.

[QUOTE=false prophet;51646031]I am tempted to post a reaction image but I don't want to get banned... First off.. [b][i]dead[/i][/b] body... secondly, this thing is a tumor. It has no sense of self.[/QUOTE] It was a teratoma that developed into a miniature brain composed of neurons, with additional features. I'm not posing a serious argument here, I just think it'd be cool if the brain had fully developed and grown to interface with the regular brain's neural networks.. :v:

[QUOTE=Quark:;51650485]It was a teratoma that developed into a miniature brain composed of neurons, with additional features. I'm not posing a serious argument here, I just think it'd be cool if the brain had fully developed and grown to interface with the regular brain's neural networks.. :v:[/QUOTE] Quad-core computing brain power.

[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;51636337]Isn't there a theory that the human species will eventually evolve to not need males? Maybe millions of years down the line rogue ovarian cells will be making more complete humans than a micro brain and skull :v: Imagine getting pregnant randomly at any time in your life[/QUOTE] From evolutionary viewpoint that is ineffectual. Produces less variety and thus slowers the speed of evolution.

[QUOTE=Quark:;51650485]It was a teratoma that developed into a miniature brain composed of neurons, with additional features. I'm not posing a serious argument here, I just think it'd be cool if the brain had fully developed and grown to interface with the regular brain's neural networks.. :v:[/QUOTE] I doubt it will happen and even if it will it should go

[QUOTE=Quark:;51650485]It was a teratoma that developed into a miniature brain composed of neurons, with additional features. I'm not posing a serious argument here, I just think it'd be cool if the brain had fully developed and grown to interface with the regular brain's neural networks.. :v:[/QUOTE] it sits in you, hearing your every thought and judging you. it becomes a little voice you hear in the deepest nights when you're trying to get to sleep

It's just like in Lucifer's Hammer...

sounds like something straight out of Black Jack pretty horrific stuff

Equally fascinating and gut wrenchingly terrifying. The shit the human body cooks up sometimes. Imagine being a surgeon finding a particularly [i]weird[/i] teratoma before we really knew what they are. Just doing a routine procedure and suddenly you find teeth or a tiny underdeveloped hand eurgh.