From the stranger than fiction file,...
Scientists Reverse Mental Retardation in Mice
..just as scientists did in the classic 1966 novel Flowers for Algernon. In the book by Daniel Keyes, scientists use experimental surgery—first tested on a mouse named Algernon—to dramatically boost the intelligence of a mentally retarded janitor named Charlie Gordon.
I read that. It's a really good book. Further, paraphrasing,
I am impressed by the kinds of different symptoms that seem to be under the governance of this single signaling pathway,
If you take a retard and feed them or inject them with a compound that will inhibit their own endogenous PAK enzyme,...
Isn't it great? You hear about this stuff and imagine these Lab Coats working away year after year to cure cancer etc etc- it's nice to get some pay-back for one's hope invested in scientific progress. I still want my rocket pack and flying car though.
Now then, next order of business. How do we turn our politicians into mice?
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Tips to: Lance, on Free Domain Radio; Pic from Image may be NSFW.
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