Posted on 05/20/2022 12:24:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Researchers at Georgia State University may have published the scientific understatement of the year when saying that their CRISPR experiment with hamsters “found that the biology behind social behavior may be more complex than previously thought.”
Using the revolutionary gene editing tech, the GSU neuroscience team discovered that knocking out a receptor of vasopressin — a hormone associated with aggression, communication, and social bonding in both humans and hamsters — instead seemed to supercharge the cute rodents’ worst instincts.
The GSU team was surprised to find that their attempts to turn down the aggression in the gene-hacked hamsters made them both more aggressive and more social — a nightmarish-sounding scenario that evokes Gremlin-esque playground bullies.
These “counterintuitive” findings have suggested “a startling conclusion,” Albers said in the statement — that neural receptors and the behaviors with which they’re associated may not be able to be turned on and off individually, and that attempts to do so may be fraught.
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The mothers sometimes devour their newborn. That happened to the ‘class hamster’ when I was about 6 or 7. Hard to explain to kids that small... we were still trying to figure out where the babies came from in the first place.
File this under “duh”. Gods creation is complex in the extreme.
Fer gosh sakes - they’re hamsters. Their gray matter is so limited that they will self-destruct in 6-14 months. The only noticeable behavioral change their trash genes can provide is aggression.
They’re what you give nieces and nephews you don’t like.
My parents were forced to give me a Christmas present early because we had tried to house two hamsters together.
The present was a new Habitrail cage. The big female had chased the little female into the penthouse portion of the cage and bit her on the side.
That little female was so happy when she realized she had her own place. She looked at us like, “Really? All mine?” I swear she smiled.
The big female would always find a way to get out of her cage and try to get into the other’s cage. She lived much longer than the little one. She once transported a whole bag’s worth of hamster food into her cage overnight.
And what is the delivery medium for CRISPR technology?
mRNA.
My daughter has hamsters and they did tell us what to do. Hamsters from the same litter tolerate each other. From other litters, it’s Hafields Vs McCoys time.
Fauci- “ Let’s try breeding them with some bats I got from China.”
gerbils next...
All you Winston Smiths out there better stop griping or the TSA disinformation bureau will put a box of these over your face until you love Big Brother.
So, they turned them into Pit bulls.
AS it was in the days of Noah so it shall also be in the days of the Son of Man.
OK, research of any kind can be weird, in its inception and results.
But, give them credit for one thing, the choice of victim. Someone actually had a thought when the first suggestion was to diddle about with chimps: “Uhh, didn’t anyone ever see the movies on this?”.. Cooler heads prevailed and little hamsters were substituted for the first choice.
Nothing new here, done and ongoing...
- destroy family
- subsidize poverty
- incentivize drug dealing
- celebrate violence in music and film
Ez pz
Hazel had children by Magoo once and ate three of them, and eventually chased the rest down to the lower tank lever. She would get out somehow and get into the cabinet below where we kept the yogurt treats. She would stuff her pouches so full that she had them dripping from her mouth.
She ended up getting the runs real bad, and my wife had to wash her off in the sink and use her hair dryer to clean her. I was able to eventually plug off all the holes in the apartment and she would run around like a dog, and even answered too her name.
One day I had a few drinks and accidentally stepped on her and broke one of her legs. It healed, but not normal. For Christmas my Mother-in-law gave her a nut stick and we hung it in the cage for her, but because she already had on bump leg from me stepping on her, she ended up standing on one leg to eat the stick. Her leg slipped and got caught in the wire mesh and she broke her good leg eating the new Christmas nut stick.
We actually thought the vet could fix the leg, but she died while under the anesthesia. I still have a collage of pictures frame of her. We tell everyone she was our first dog.
I’m pretty sure making super-aggressive soldiers is the end mission of these experiments.
Exactly what I thought when the first time I read the headline. LOL
Do I look like a hamster to you Denzel?
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