Posted on 06/20/2020 12:30:31 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In past experiments, researchers have examined the same human gene's effect on the brain sizes of mice and ferrets. The brains did grow larger — but in those experiments, the team used an over-expression of the gene, rather than the typical human levels. So the effect could have been due to another hidden factor rather than the gene itself.
Plus, crucially, mice and ferrets aren't primates — so they can't tell us how the introduction of the gene may have changed the brains of our modern ancestors.
Primates are particularly interesting to researchers because — before now, they didn't know if the genes in humans would trigger the same response in our relatives. The scientists say that this is the first evidence of any human-specific gene, put into a non-human primate, that makes the brain physiologically bigger.
Designing any study with primates raises ethical concerns, and introducing a human gene is all the more reason to be careful when conducting research.
Huttner, Heide, and colleagues collaborated with longtime colleagues at the Central Institute for Experimental Animals and Keio University in Japan. After traveling to Japan to set up the experiment, the monkey fetuses grew in place. When they were ready, the fetus samples were shipped to Germany — with great care and lots of paperwork — for their analysis.
That's important because the researchers need to agree on the ethical boundaries of their experiment before they set out.
In this case, those boundaries included stopping these experiments in the fetal phase: The fetuses were taken out by C-section after growing for about 100 days
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Did they not watch that movie?
Someone needs to force them to watch that movie...
(charlton heston...paging charlton heston...)
NOW....we know where all the insane libs and their evil minions came from. Always wondered about that...LOL
Not really, but it’s getting hype as the evolutionary basis for human’s having more cortex.
It’s kind of an attempt to create a secular creation story. But the science is not really there.
Are they trying to create a planet of apes?
Exactly!
Oh. Wait. I accidentally read the article and it's different from the headline.
I won't make that mistake again.
No need to create a new planet of the apes.
There are multiple qualifying, nominally human occupied, locations here now.
Stalin’s dream of an army of ape-men is getting closer to reality.
Maybe they can implant them in the members of BLM.
East St. Louis, Camden, Gary, Chester, Baltimore...
Maybe that new gene therapy could be put to use on those denizens?
Just great!!! Making more Democrats.
I still think it’s hilarious that someone suggested people dressed as gorillas on horseback greet the SpaceX guys at their return.
Has Blackboard Jungle been “cancelled”, yet?
That’s hilarious. I’m watching that movie even as we speak...er...type.
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