The Sound of Cells

Alert Slashdot reader jamie pointed out a story in Smithsonian Magazine on the subject of listening to the sounds cells make in order to detect abnormalities.

hmmm

[deviantonline]

I wonder if they rock out or are they more into the hip-hop scene?

Beep beep

[AtariAmarok]

I hear the things beeping all over the place now. Little tinny tunes like Mexican Hat Dance too.

Oh, sorry, thought you said cell PHONES.

oh great...

[TR0GD0RtheBURNiNAT0R]

Even more voices to listen too...

The sound of cancer

[Anonymous Coward]

Cancer is always listening to Limp Biskit with the booming base spreading all over the neighborhood. Cancer cells also have superfluous spoilers and purple neon undercarriages.

I'm telling you...

[Anonymous Coward]

It's the Midichlorians. You'll hear them too when you learn to quiet your mind.

What they will hear...

[hords]

"Get your body in shape you insensitive clod"

I hear dead people

Doctor of musicolonoscopy

[Jtheletter]

I always wondered what field Dr. Teeth, from Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, held his degree in, now we know!

Hey man, just relax and bend over the examining table while I prep this guitar tuner for insertion....

Obligatory Family Guy Quote:

[Navius Eurisko]

Skin Cell 1: Hey I saw you on the cover of Scientific American!

Skin Cell 2: Palez! The photo totally made me look fat!

Skin Cell 3: Jesus, just take the complement!

true, the sound of your cell indicates abnormality

[Mengoxon]

...like, when you have Ride of Valkiries as your ring-tone

Voices in my head

[Anonymous Coward]

Is that where all those voices in my head have been coming from?

Madeline L'Engle's 'A Wind in the Door'?

[unithom]

This is old news, ever since Meg healed her little brother Charles Wallace by teaching his cells how to sing. Or Kythe. Or something.

Re:I used this before for network monitoring.

[jmulvey]

Yeah, I manage my networks using sound the same way. If I make a change to a router, I pick up *immediately* when something is wrong. The sounds are usually way off in the cubicles and go something like this: "What the heck is going on!", "Are you clocking?".

Apologies to George Carlin:

[shadowcabbit]

Things you don't want to hear from your cells:

"I was thinking of redecorating the place; d'you think some melanoma would look good here?"
"C'mon, all the cool kids are having apoptosis! You're not chicken, are you?"
"The mitochondria must be liberated!"
"Hey, alcohol! Irish stout! All right, time for Liverdance!"

...and the number one thing:
"Ouch!"

Re:dolphin tech

[Anonymous Coward]

Wouldn't it be funny if some day, we discover that the most intelligent animal on earth is the tuna? We've been eating dolphin-safe tuna for all these years when we should've been eating tuna-safe dolphins.

Barbarians

[Wiseazz]

Sprinkling alcohol on a yeast cell to kill it raises the pitch

Won't someone please think of the yeast cells?

Re:I'm telling you...

[AndroidCat]

That was a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. They didn't have Prozac back then.

And dead cells make noise too

[AndroidCat]

while dead cells give off a low, rumbling sound that Gimzewski says is probably the result of random atomic motions.

Maybe they're just hungry, for brain cells...

Cell alert....

[carlos_benj]

Alert Slashdot reader jamie pointed out a story in Smithsonian Magazine...

Maybe jamie's cells sounded the alert...

Okay... so they make noise...

[mark-t]

But the question is, are they into karaoke? Or maybe there's another way someone with an entrepeneural spirit could capitalize on this.

Listening to the sound of cells seems obvious..

[wfberg]

Until you realise the article isn't about cell phones..

Mitosis with SOUND

[theapodan]

Hehe, now when the cells split in mitosis, you can hear all the "Ahhhhhh!" and "OOOOOOOHHH YEAH!" cell sex noises that they are sure to make.

Dexter's Laboratory

[bluenawab]

Man! i dont know why i watch cartoon network so much, but i think it has some potential! i watched an episode last week in which Dexter was actually performing this very same experiment! only different being, he finds a virus-boy band! i guess i am a loser ;)