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SCIENTISTS GENE HACK HAMSTERS INTO HYPER-AGGRESSIVE MONSTERS
Futurism ^ | yNOOR AL-SIBAI

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at futurism.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: crispr; genehack; hamsters; mrna
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To: pepsi_junkie

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.


21 posted on 05/20/2022 12:58:41 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: BenLurkin

File this under “duh”. Gods creation is complex in the extreme.


22 posted on 05/20/2022 1:10:35 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


23 posted on 05/20/2022 1:12:42 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: pepsi_junkie

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.


24 posted on 05/20/2022 1:15:54 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: BenLurkin

And what is the delivery medium for CRISPR technology?

mRNA.


25 posted on 05/20/2022 1:17:36 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ The Soviet Empire is right now doing a dead cat bounce. ☭☭☭)
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To: CheshireTheCat

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.


26 posted on 05/20/2022 1:18:12 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: BenLurkin

Fauci- “ Let’s try breeding them with some bats I got from China.”


27 posted on 05/20/2022 1:20:53 PM PDT by Farmerbob
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To: BenLurkin

gerbils next...


28 posted on 05/20/2022 1:21:10 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: BenLurkin
Hamsuke, the giant Djungarian hamster monster from the Overlord anime.


29 posted on 05/20/2022 1:24:32 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


30 posted on 05/20/2022 1:24:53 PM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: BenLurkin
I'm thinking "Punky Hamster".


31 posted on 05/20/2022 1:28:01 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: BenLurkin
Devilish beasts.


32 posted on 05/20/2022 1:32:14 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: BenLurkin

So, they turned them into Pit bulls.


33 posted on 05/20/2022 1:48:29 PM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: BenLurkin

34 posted on 05/20/2022 1:53:15 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: BenLurkin

AS it was in the days of Noah so it shall also be in the days of the Son of Man.


35 posted on 05/20/2022 1:58:15 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: BenLurkin

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.


36 posted on 05/20/2022 2:21:09 PM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: BenLurkin

Nothing new here, done and ongoing...

- destroy family
- subsidize poverty
- incentivize drug dealing
- celebrate violence in music and film

Ez pz


37 posted on 05/20/2022 2:25:38 PM PDT by nicollo
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To: CheshireTheCat
That is what happened to ours. We had two, One male, named Mr Magoo, the other's name was Hazel. Eventually Hazel stuffed all the bedding material into the tubes to stop cGoo from bugging her. He eventually got out and got lost in the walls.

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.

38 posted on 05/20/2022 2:33:20 PM PDT by OneVike (Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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To: I want the USA back

I’m pretty sure making super-aggressive soldiers is the end mission of these experiments.


39 posted on 05/20/2022 3:09:10 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: griffin
"Wait, what? Gene Hackman is a hamster?"

Exactly what I thought when the first time I read the headline. LOL


Do I look like a hamster to you Denzel?

40 posted on 05/20/2022 4:03:21 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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