Scientists Breed World's First Mentally Ill Mouse

Times (UK) ^ | 7/29/2007 | Johnathan Leake

[wildbill]

SCIENTISTS have created the world’s first schizophrenic mice in an attempt to gain a better understanding of the illness.

It is believed to be the first time an animal has been genetically engineered to have a mental illness...

Animal rights campaigners have condemned the research, saying that it is morally repugnant to create an animal doomed to mental suffering.

[Cyclops08]

“Animal rights campaigners have condemned the research, saying that it is morally repugnant to create an animal doomed to mental suffering.”

Scientists claim: “We have artificially created, LIBERALS!”

[knarf]

If you're born deaf ... you don't know it until later on, and it is explained to you ... somehow.

If you're born blind ... you don't know it until later on, and it is explained to you ... somehow.

And if you're born with a mental illness ... the socialists sign you up as a democrat, and never explain anything to you, except that you're right and the rest of the world is wrong.

[vigilante2]

However mentally ill rodents are rather common in our legislature, why don’t scientists study them instead?

[Old Professer]

Mama; they’re breeding Democrats...

[brityank]

Scientists Breed World's First Mentally Ill Mouse

Hell -- the US has that down to a science and has for years, and we don't have to breed them.
We make them in Congress !!

[Vince Ferrer]

The scientist’s parents must be very proud.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Did they give the parents injections with mercury in them?”

They are Thalidamice!

[Victor]

I have firsthand knowledge of this; my daughter is severely mentally retarded due to a brain disorder known as Angelman Syndrome, which is a result of a piece of a chromosome deleted, and then the chromosome replicates abnormally in the brain. This leads to severe retardation.

I recently attended a conference where research scientists wer discussing "mouse models". ,p> This is a procedure where mouse eggs are retrieved, the piece of the chromosome is extracted and the egg is fertilized normally. You wind up with a mentally retarded mouse that exhibits many of the characteristics of Angelman Syndrome.

The goal is gene replacement therapy, which essentially would allow the generation of a certain protein that is responsible for synapse firing in the brain neurons; or at the very least a drug that could enable the synapse to fire.

Mouse models are be studied for a variety of mental disorders.

[monkapotamus]

[ontap]

To be used for breeding future Democrats!

[Slings and Arrows]

They had to use mice because mentally-ill 'RAT is redundant.

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[P-40]

[Lady Jag]

What do you mean?

We're perfectly sane!

[martin_fierro]

The cat, as seen by the schizophrenic mouse.

[martin_fierro]

[raybbr]

They are Thalidamice!

Tooshay!

[Lady Jag]

BATTO!

[JRios1968]

Registered as a Democrat...

[Mad Dawg]

C’mon! Dennis Kucinich isn’t THAT young. They’ve been releasing mentally ill miss for decades!

[Mad Dawg]

Funny, I was a minister in NE Mississippi in the early ‘80’s and I formed the impression that the two biggest local sports were alcoholism and adultery.