Scientists Put A Human "Language Gene" Into Mice And Curious Things Unfolded

IFL Science ^ | March 13, 2025 | Tom Hale

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Human language gene in mice? I can think of a certain minority groups who could use that same treatment.

[Savage Beast]

Oh great! Now the mice in the cupboard are going to be singing like the Chipmunks!

[Getready]

All it could mean is that the boffins (buffoons?) messed up the mouses vocal controls...one would think that the scientists have to explain the genetic encoding of speaking tissue, nerve control, cognitive functions, neologisms,and other features of speech...
Read the late Tom Wolfe’s last book, KINGDOM OF SPEECH for an interesting foray into linguistic research.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

So that now all they have to do is to trans the mice, right? /s

[Redcitizen]

Pinky: “Gee, Brain, what are we gonna do tonight?”

Brain: “The same thing we do every night: try to take over the world!”

[Bob434]

The “evolution of vocal communication” happend this way, man wax created from the dust of the ground, woman created next, they began speaking to one another, the woman bit the apple after listening to the serpent.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Thanks. No way I’ll ever remember that, so I guess I’ll keep typing in English.

[Jonty30]

They may be seen as diseased and to be avoided.

[Salman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsmOXgpotmA

[T.B. Yoits]

H.G. Wells (Post 28: ‘The Island of Doctor Moreau’) knew where this was going in 1896.

[SunkenCiv]

If one of these mice starts writing on the wall of its container, like Plato in the Beetle Bailey strip, we’ll all have to rethink this project.

[SunkenCiv]

Splice, splice, baby...

[Salamander]

Ugh.

Trauma flick forever.

[Sequoyah101]

It won’t last. I’ve seen the movies and read the story. “Charly” and “Flowers for Algernon”

I named one of my cats Algernon. I had high hopes for him as a kitten but he has turned out to be a cat.

I have another one named Alger Hiss and he really is a spy.

[Fai Mao]

The book is quite good

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL...that’s a good SNL skit. Thanks for linking it!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

¡¡¡ Darn, it’s hard!!!

[Right Brother]

I think the story goes: “God made man and rested. God made woman and no one has rested since”.

[Bob434]

Lol- you must have the abridged version 😆 🤣

[Bob434]

Don’t have to remember it, if you want to use symbols like that, you can look them up online, and copy and paste them- znd bookmark the site with symbols- I never remeber what keys either.