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Gene Therapy Turns Slackers Into Workaholics

Posted by michael on from the water-cooler-sales-drop dept.

DrLudicrous writes "According to a recent Reuters article, scientists have been able to cause monkeys to stop procrastinating by blocking the development of a dopamine receptor in the brain. The net result- the monkeys turned into workaholics. An article has appeared in the online version of Nature. Apparently, monkeys, just like human beings, tend to slack off on tasks until the very last minute. They become quite adept at judging how long they have till they absolutely must complete these tasks. The original article appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. An additional blurb appears here courtesty of Science Blog." NIH has a press release.

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  1. Said one of the monkeys, by echosilex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "I just can't live without workahol!!"

  2. In other news... by tezza · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Whitehouse has announced President George W Bush will be taking less holidays

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  3. oh, the irony by infinite9 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I, for one, do not want to live in a world where slacking and procrastinating are eliminated by a pill.

    Pez

    How about if the pills came out of superman's mouth when you tilt his head back?

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  4. "troll"? by phyruxus · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    How is this a troll? Someone enlighten me. I've been modded flamebait occassionally, but troll? WTF? Does Dick Cheney have mod points today?

    Phbbbt.

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