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 ...
I hope its bite is infectious...
Reading this you know they are already doing it. and it may explain some things.
Ha! LOL!
Are any of these GSU researchers named Mengele?
Wonderful. What did you do with your hamster herd?
Domesticated rats actually make better pets than hamsters.
Before everyone gets weirded-out: there are people who actually breed and show fancy rats and mice. The animals have a fascination similar to that of cats, for breeders:
Gave them away...had a cage with tubes and round tread mill.
LOL. Imagine having a few hundred of those critters released into the White Hut.
Let’s make some Reavers
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