Debras brood of 13. 21 baby rats get a bath tonight with momma rats and I call myself mommy rat too. Since I control his account. And this shit is adorable af.

@davidasinclair Started interventions at middle age for rats.

@davidasinclair Tat pups experience significantly better health when their mother is in a healthy environment during gestation. An unhealthy prenatal and postnatal maternal environment, including poor diet, stress, toxic exposure can negatively affect the pups development, alter gene expression

@davidasinclair That's a data point.

33 month old male rat + 1.5 month female = 13 And he probably has another female pregnant.

Eliza cries at bring captured and kissed.

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Unfortunately he died several hours ago. Rigor mortis. The pathogen ended up killing him. I don't regret spending 700$ on him. I regret not having antibiotics and antivirals around. Never seen a rat go that fast. Will be more preemptive with Goliath.

Thought he was beating this thing. Now apparently not. I could keep him on ice after the worst. And try to find out at a later date what foul organism killed my pet. I wish I could declare war on it globally.

It really fucked me up for about 4 weeks. It was torture having to be awake for work. Just no energy.

New research strategy is I must have antiviral cocktails and antibiotics on hand at all times. You can have a perfectly healthy rat and 2 weeks later he's gone. This virus kills faster than organ failure.

If he doesn't improve at all by tomorrow, if he even survives im going to have euthanize him. Or we can let him die in his bed which is almost preferable for certain reasons. Bad experience last time. Incompetent veterinary staff.

He's doing so poorly I had to take the day off and give David treatment immediately. The pathogen will probably win this round.

Women in his life didnt know what they had. Too much development involved, not enough vision to even notice the potential of people like him.

Find yourself a scientist that looks at his work like my Zachary. It crawls into bed with him, just like me his girlfriend that finds his level of generosity for our pet incredibly touching.

Legs are strong again now. Thump thump thump, he sleeps in that plastic hutch in my bed so I know. The experiment is so close to home the lab is in my bed. No coordination though. Too much nerve damage.

I like Sinclairs envisioning of regeneration being akin to declaration of war. Stem cells are basically strategic nuclear assets.

Rat is sleeping a lot. Giving him very high dosage NAD boosters as ive isolated the culprit being viral parasitism. Dissolving the necrosis before the stem cell treatment with proteolytic enzymes. Clearing the way for more full recovery with sufficient sustained assault.