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Genetically Engineered Big-brained Mice

Posted by michael on from the big-brained-cats-needed-to-catch-them dept.

StefanJ writes "'Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?' An item on MSNBC reports that researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston have produced mice with big, convoluted brains by inserting an single extra gene. I am reminded of two pieces of SF: Olaf Stapledon's novel Sirius, about a lab experiment that produces a brainy dog, and Bruce Sterling "Our Neural Chernobyl," in which the country is overrun with cunning coyotes and tribes of raccoons."

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  1. Reminds me of... by n-baxley · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    someone else

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  2. of mice and men by g4dget · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What have men got to do with anything?