X-Message-Number: 23135 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 07:43:46 -0800 From: James Swayze <> Subject: Toadfish Help in Muscular Disease Fight http://www.comcast.net/News/HEALTHWELLNESS//XML/1500_Health__medical/7bdfc7a2-1b54-4263-a7f1-594c8e42d9ef.html Toadfish Help in Muscular Disease Fight By MICHELLE LOCKE, Associated Press Writer BERKELEY, Calif. - The love song of the lonely toadfish is giving scientists new insight on fighting human muscular diseases. Blessed with a face that only a mother could love, some males of a type of toadfish called the plainfin midshipman work hard for a date, hiding under rocks in shallow waters and humming to attract egg-laying females. The toadfish, which can be found in the North Pacific from California all the way to Alaska, makes the humming sound by vibrating a set of sonic muscles on its air bladder 6,000 times a minute for more than an hour at a time, an amazing combination of speed and endurance. The human heart, by contrast, beats about 60-80 times a minute.[cont.] [end quoted material] I just found this quite interesting. It makes me wonder how they happened upon this. James -- Member: Cryonics Institute of Michigan http://www.cryonics.org The Immortalist Society http://www.cryonics.org/info.html The Society for Venturism http://www.venturist.org Immortality Institute http://www.imminst.org MY WEBSITE: http://www.davidpascal.com/swayze/ Signature Memetic Virus--The worst enemy of those who now or will need medical care is the uninformed politician or moral fanatic who proscribe what doctors are allowed to prescribe and research, with the consent of their patients. Those who understand this are strongly encouraged to modify this to fit their personality, and add this to their signature file, and organize to recover our freedom from Big Brother. For those who wait until they are sick, it will be too late. Those who suffer from diseases which might have been cured by advanced medical research or schedule 1 drugs banned by Big Brother, have the right to hold accountable those who sat on their hands or worse, deferred their responsibility for personal and humanity's survival to unseen mystical agents, while they remained ill and dying. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23135