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Each year, 17,000 people receive a kidney transplant, but it's the number of people that don't receive one that is so astounding.

THAT number is about 17,000 people times FIVE, which is why news that scientists have made functioning rat kidneys at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is SO amazing!!!!

When the kidneys were transplanted into rats - they effectively produced urine for the rodents!

Normally rat urine isn't very exciting, but this could be a first step towards creating replacement organs for folks who suffer from kidney diseases.

Tags: dialysis, health, kidney, lab, made, patients, rat, rat made kidney, rats, science

Woah.

A neuroscientist has linked the brains of two rats together, so when one of them pushes a lever - the other one does, too!

The rats were trained to push a lever when a light went on, but after a while, electrodes were placed in the rodent's brains.

Soon they had one rat pushing a level because of the light, and another rat pushing the lever only as a response to the brain stimulation it felt from its partner rat.

Tags: brains, experiment, links, rats, science, two

One of the more disgusting consequences of Hurricane Sandy hitting New York is an increase in rats!

Gross!!

After the hurricane hit and all that flooding happened, tons of rats moved inland.

It's gotten so bad that NYC officials are calling for a publicly financed program to bait, kill and remove the rats.

Tags: gross, hurricane, hurricane sandy, infestation, new york, new york city, rat, rats, rodent, sandy

Hurricane Sandy is wrecking A LOT of shiz…in the human world and the animal world too.

The superstorm may force the evacuation of 12,000 marine animals at the NY Aquarium, pet food had to be recalled and WORST of all (not really) Alec Baldwin had to walk his dogs in the RAIN!

Now the rat population may be kaputz even though some believe the storm would bring on the Rat Apocalypse.

Tags: death, drown, hurricane sandy, new york, new york city, population, rats, sewer, weather

A new study found that chocolate is basically the same as a highly addicting drug!

Eating chocolate activates the same neurotransmitters in the brain that drive drug addiction or binge eating.

The study was conducted on rats who would eat M&Ms. It was found that

Tags: addiction, brain, chocolate, drugs, eating, health, obese, rats, science, test

Humboldt penguins are in desperate need of our help!

There are a myriad of factors that are stacked up against the penguin's survival and now rats can be one of the biggest factors.

Adults are in constant danger from

Tags: babies, chile, endangered, extinction, humboldt penguin, rats, threat, wildlife

Revenge of the rats!!!

According to legend, the German city of Hamelin hired the Pied Piper to get rid of their rats back in 1284 — now they're back!!!

The story claims that

Tags: ew, gross, infestation, rats, rodents, scary