• Question: how did you make a paraylzed mouse dance?

    Asked by princesscadance to Mo Rassul on 12 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Muhammed Rassul

      Muhammed Rassul answered on 12 Mar 2014:


      I was working with someone who was looking at using electricity for repairing the spinal cord. After a bit of conversation we ending up talking about a scientist called Galvani, who used electricity to make frog legs move. To demonstrate the person I was working with attached the electrodes to my rat and the rats legs moved. I sort of played with the current and found that the rat moved rhymically, like it was dancing. Unfortunately the paralysed rat was a rat I was dissecting so it was dead.

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