Rats the size of terriers, that's what.
Posted on 12/05/2017 1:12:54 PM PST by BenLurkin
British scientists have proposed introducing mutant lab rats into the wild rodent populations tormenting Londoners as a means of pest control, The Telegraph reports. Despite similar schemes leading to Attack of the Giant, Mutant Rats in 99 percent of fictional cases, the real world science involves genetically "editing" rodents so that they simply cannot have female offspring:
The technique suggested for rodents is known as "x-shredding." Male mammals have both an "x" and "y" sex chromosome, while females need two "x" chromosomes.
The scientists want to insert "x shredder" code into the DNA of male rats which would destroy the "x" chromosomes in their sperm, meaning they could only pass on a "y" chromosome, so their offspring would never be female.
With fewer and fewer females over time, the population would have to decline.
The genetically modified lab rats could then be released into the wild, where they would pass their edited genes on to future generations. The so-called "Crispr" technology, which is also being tested with mosquito populations, works even better than toxins, since some rats are already becoming poison-resistant.
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This sounds like that B-Movie with Ernest Borgnine, Bruce Davidson and Sondra Locke called WILLARD.
Willard is a meek social misfit who developes an affinity for rats. He lives in a large house with only his cranky mother Henrietta for company.
Willard plays with the rats in the basement, training them to attack on command Eventually, Willard meets a large black rat he names Ben.
A plan of revenge is born!
That famous line when he sics his rat on “Ernest Borgnine
“Tear Him Up!!!”
And Theresa May gets upset when Trump tells the truth about her precious muslins.
I predicted this over 10 years ago. Britain IS lost, and the citizens are embracing it. What a foolhardy nation. They deserve all that has happened and will happen.
Rats the size of terriers, that's what.
Anyone here see the movie, “28 Days Later?”
A virus (virus called “rage,” if I remember correctly) went from a lab monkey to workers there, in the U.K., and escaped into the population. Raging, fast zombies resulted, and there went the neighborhood.
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