Deleting Certain Gene Makes Mice Smarter 259
An anonymous reader writes "Deleting a certain gene in mice can make them smarter by unlocking a mysterious region of the brain considered to be relatively inflexible, scientists at Emory University School of Medicine have found. Mice with a disabled RGS14 gene are able to remember objects they'd explored and learn to navigate mazes better than regular mice, suggesting that RGS14's presence limits some forms of learning and memory."
Cool, it's like Intel Upgrade Service for a brain. (Score:5, Funny)
I can haz turnkey upgrade for 50$?
Yeah! (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, let's make lab mice smarter! What could possibly go wrong?
Re:Whats the odds (Score:1, Funny)
Now the mice have the knowledge to alter human brains and speed up the calculation of the question to life, the universe and everything.
Hmmm (Score:3, Funny)
I used to watch a documentary about this as a kid. Apparently this causes 50% of the mice to turn incredibly stupid, while the other 50% want to take over the world.
Makes mice smarter you say... (Score:2, Funny)
The other's insane.
They're laboratory mice
Their genes have been spliced
They're dinky
They're Pinky and The Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Brain, Brain, Brain, Brain
Brain.
Turns out (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Whats the odds (Score:1, Funny)
It's FORTY-FUCKING-TWO
One after another or all at the same time?
Re:Yeah! (Score:1, Funny)
Narf!
Re:Cool, it's like Intel Upgrade Service for a bra (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Cool, it's like Intel Upgrade Service for a bra (Score:3, Funny)
10 FOR X = 0 TO 65535
20 POKE X, 0
30 NEXT X
Re:Yeah! (Score:1, Funny)
Are you thinking what i'm thinking?