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Mice See New Hue With Added Gene
Washington Post ^
| Friday, March 23, 2007
| Rick Weiss
Posted on 03/23/2007 10:42:07 AM PDT by null and void
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To: null and void
scientists have endowed mice with a human gene that allows the rodents to see the world in full Technicolor splendor.I wonder if the mice are aware of this fact, or do they just assume that they evolved the ability to see in Technicolor?
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03/23/2007 11:26:23 AM PDT
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Ignatz
(Did you know that before the internal combustion engine, there was no weather at all?)
To: bikerMD
Hue Jackman? Hue Hefner? Hue Hewitt? Hu E Lewis?Remember: Hue, and only hue, can prevent florist friars.
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03/23/2007 11:28:34 AM PDT
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Ignatz
(Did you know that before the internal combustion engine, there was no weather at all?)
To: Ignatz
Q: Do they have color vision, by chance?
A: No, by design...
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03/23/2007 11:29:24 AM PDT
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null and void
(To Marines, male bonding happens in Boot Camp, to Democrats, it happens at a Gay Pride parade...)
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03/23/2007 11:30:14 AM PDT
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null and void
(To Marines, male bonding happens in Boot Camp, to Democrats, it happens at a Gay Pride parade...)
To: itsamelman
Hugh with added Gene...
Eugene...
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03/23/2007 11:36:43 AM PDT
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itsamelman
(?Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.? -- Al Swearengen)
To: null and void
and South and Central American female monkeys -- have three kinds of cones Hmmm. I knew Red-green color blindness was more common in male humans than female humans, but I didn't know that in the New World monkeys it was near universal.
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03/23/2007 12:05:09 PM PDT
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lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: null and void
It does make you wonder - what happens to your appreciation of color if you broaden your spectrum of visible colors? Will "blue" still be my favorite color, or will it just not look that great anymore?
To: null and void
To: null and void
If further studies prove the approach is safe, he said, it could be used in people to correct colorblindness and perhaps to add a fourth color receptor, which would allow a finer parsing of the spectrum. "You'd think that the color world of a tetrachromat would be very rich compared to ours," Neitz said. With our way of printing and conveying colors on television, it would be wierd...as nothing in either of those mediums would look at all like what they were attempting to convey. For example, "Yellow" could be yellow light, or the same exact shade could be a mixture red light and green light with no yellow light whatsoever.
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03/23/2007 12:13:44 PM PDT
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lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: LibreOuMort
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03/23/2007 12:17:37 PM PDT
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sionnsar
To: lepton
One's favorite color might go from purple to bee purple.
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03/23/2007 5:23:11 PM PDT
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null and void
(To Marines, male bonding happens in Boot Camp, to Democrats, it happens at a Gay Pride parade...)
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