Posted on 06/20/2020 12:30:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In past experiments, researchers have examined the same human gene's effect on the brain sizes of mice and ferrets. The brains did grow larger but in those experiments, the team used an over-expression of the gene, rather than the typical human levels. So the effect could have been due to another hidden factor rather than the gene itself.
Plus, crucially, mice and ferrets aren't primates so they can't tell us how the introduction of the gene may have changed the brains of our modern ancestors.
Primates are particularly interesting to researchers because before now, they didn't know if the genes in humans would trigger the same response in our relatives. The scientists say that this is the first evidence of any human-specific gene, put into a non-human primate, that makes the brain physiologically bigger.
Designing any study with primates raises ethical concerns, and introducing a human gene is all the more reason to be careful when conducting research.
Huttner, Heide, and colleagues collaborated with longtime colleagues at the Central Institute for Experimental Animals and Keio University in Japan. After traveling to Japan to set up the experiment, the monkey fetuses grew in place. When they were ready, the fetus samples were shipped to Germany with great care and lots of paperwork for their analysis.
That's important because the researchers need to agree on the ethical boundaries of their experiment before they set out.
In this case, those boundaries included stopping these experiments in the fetal phase: The fetuses were taken out by C-section after growing for about 100 days
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LOL, remember when posting that would get you banned?
Democrats register monkeys to vote!
Democrats register monkeys to vote!
#ApeLivesMatter
Do you want Planet of the apes? Because thats how you get planet of the apes!
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Just in time to use a gene from PedoJoe to grow a monkey brain, so that it can replace PedoJoe’s brain that has turned into a vegetable.
Shoulda given Maxine a shot of this stuff.
Ive seen this movie
Now, that would be hilarious.
“Damn you all to Hell!”
HA! That would be great!
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?/sarc
Serial Ape-ist: Monkey See, Monkey Kill
Cool! Get the chopsticks and that table with the hole in the middle, and four chairs...
What better way to grow the Democrat base?
Thanks for that live link. I found it to be interesting reading. I appreciate!
I worked for a US defense contractor which had a contract with Indonesia to build facilities and train the locals to build our products. This was near 1990.
Several from my dept. went there for a 6 mo. stay. A couple of months in, our Company Pres. and some other Execs went there.
To greet them, the Indonesians had a formal dinner. Everyone was seated on the floor around a table. The hosts cut the top of the skull off of a monkey, whose head was poking up through a hole in the table. Everyone was expected to taste the “delicacy”.
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