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Scientists Breed World's First Mentally Ill Mouse
Times (UK) ^ | 7/29/2007 | Johnathan Leake

Posted on 07/29/2007 7:40:09 AM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: disorders; mentalillness; metallyill; mouse; research; schizophrenia
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To: Mad Dawg
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..

Raiding and stealing from the public funds for personal benefits ranks #1...Billy McCoy...$56Mil for a defunct cow plant, Thurston Little laundering Marty Frankel's money (Embezzled >$3Billion...remember?)which just about half of the population (especially his family of which his brother is Pres Pro Temp of the Ms Senate) here benefited from the money scheme and Little only spent 1.5 year in prison for the deed..WorldCom.....

41 posted on 07/29/2007 11:36:53 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: P-40

You know you’re right. Somebody could do a photoshop on Waxman without a problem


42 posted on 07/29/2007 1:24:00 PM PDT by wildbill
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To: wildbill

He always makes me think of the character Rat Man in the movie made from Steven King’s The Stand. :)


43 posted on 07/29/2007 1:46:19 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: All

I was wondering how many posts it would take for someone to post a picture of crazy Dennis.

Post 13!


44 posted on 07/29/2007 1:48:55 PM PDT by Armedanddangerous (Master of Sinanju (emeritus))
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To: raybbr

Am I the only one who remembers this classic of cinema?

45 posted on 07/29/2007 1:49:20 PM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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To: Clemenza

Great Movie I remember it also. It scared me. That is why I now own 4 cats.


46 posted on 07/29/2007 5:30:42 PM PDT by angcat ("IF YOU DON'T STAND BEHIND OUR TROOPS, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO STAND IN FRONT OF THEM")
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To: wildbill
Tens of millions of mentally ill socialists are being bred at our universities.

Now big brother can just genetically-engineer it.

47 posted on 07/29/2007 5:36:33 PM PDT by Praxeologue
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To: wildbill; Slings and Arrows

48 posted on 07/30/2007 3:16:10 AM PDT by Daffynition (The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.)
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