You May Soon Be Literally What You Eat

There is more than one way to get sushi inside your body. When scientists from Hokkaido University realized that salmon skin often goes to waste in local seafood processing, they decided to replace the aortas of rats using the marine life collagen to create artificial blood vessels. Although cow and pig collagen has been used in the past, this is the first time anything fishy has been utilized. Not only will we not have to worry about contracting Mad Cow Disease, we can forsee a time when humans keep getting more bionic. The research results will be announced at a meeting of the Japanese Society for Regenerative Medicine, which begins in today in Yokohama.

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