PDA

View Full Version

: OMG TALKING MICE


+Kardboard+
05-29-2009, 10:39 AM
OK, not quite yet, but a team of scientsts have made some transgenic mice that have the human gene for speech. Long story short, these mice show a great deal more activity in the brain areas for language.

This will soon be a reality IRL:

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/5048/344pxmickeymousesvg.png (http://img38.imageshack.us/my.php?image=344pxmickeymousesvg.png)

http://io9.com/5272451/transgenic-mice-engineered-with-a-human-gene-for-speech

124Y
05-29-2009, 10:54 AM
Hah~ I doubt those mice will end up learning English or other human languages...

tamazoid
05-29-2009, 12:08 PM
Hah~ I doubt those mice will end up learning English or other human languages...

Never know... They might be able to say a few words like Parrots can.

!Aznboi128
05-29-2009, 12:30 PM
reminds me of the episode of south park

q0192837465
05-29-2009, 01:12 PM
damn, they'r gonna take over the world

124Y
05-29-2009, 05:08 PM
Never know... They might be able to say a few words like Parrots can.

Nah~ unless they develop the ability to control their tongue's movement. :thumbsup:

+Kardboard+
05-29-2009, 05:15 PM
Dude, that's what the gene does, give them better nerve control lol

Toeknee
05-29-2009, 06:28 PM
http://images.google.ca/url?source=imgres&ct=tbn&q=http://bp2.blogger.com/_-hOHq7JukGA/Re0OwJUP4TI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/0BCw1ftd48w/s400/Stuart-Little-3-300_233009m.jpg&usg=AFQjCNHD1Hp6FAZEmUz296MeWgVbQ6W91A

Ulic Qel-Droma
05-29-2009, 07:17 PM
more like

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/47/Pinky_and_the_Brain_vol1.jpg/418px-Pinky_and_the_Brain_vol1.jpg