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Ever-Happy Mouse Sheds Light on Depression
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists have bred a strain of mouse that's permanently cheerful, in hopes of better understanding and treating depression in people. By breeding mice lacking the TREK-1 gene, which is involved in serotonin transmission, researchers were able create a depression-resistant strain. They say it's the first time depression has been eliminated through genetic alteration of an organism."
Pinky
Grow an ear on his back, that'll teach 'em!
I'd like the be the first to welcome our cheerful overlords...
Deactivate a mouse's TREK-1 and it acts like it's on antidepressants.
Take my Trek away from me and I get depressed.
There toning it down for the kids. By "Happy" they mean the mice are randy.
Kill the damn things before they escape, learn to talk, and start asking us if "we are having a case of the Mondays"
NO GOOD CAN COME OF THIS
By taking away their cheese.
Not taking away, just strategically moving it daily.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Hey, maybe the scientists can use this to their advantage. Something like this:
PETA spokesman: You're abusing animals in your lab, you fiend.
Scientist: But they're happy!
PETA spokesman: How can they be happy with you jabbing them with needles every half hour? Among OTHER things.
Scientist: Easy - they're permanently cheerful, no matter what we do to 'em. We engineered 'em that way.
PETA spokesman: >.
Most people are happy without poetry or music. (the "music" that is promoted with millions of dollars isn't really music, it's more like soft core pornography).
So he can't write songs anymore, he can still be a shoe salemen, CEO or a Senator.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
. . .just quit work and start smoking pot, eating magic mushrooms and dancing on the streets in the nude.
Oh, wow man, you've seen me, huh?
KFG
If they can breed a Goth that's permanently cheerful *then* I'll be impressed.
Let's get Marvin to talk to the mouse and see if it still remains cheerful.
I'm much more funny, interesting and insightful than the moderators think
Seeing Rosanne Barr naked in the streets would sober my ass right up, and depress me, all in one shot.
Dog is my co-pilot.
So, like office workers and deadlines?
Erotic is when you use a feather. Exotic is when you use the whole chicken.
Mice don't feel taunted by the universe, to figure out it's secrets.
42, Dude. 42.
KFG
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Hmm..And on top of that, they are all features normally associated with overlords... .. I, for one, welcome them..
Jesus, be a little more enthusiastic, would you?
Can't you see that this brings us closer to the laudable goal of making both goth and emo extinct over the next 200 years?
Have you read Interview with the Fountainhead by Ayn Rice?
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Have you read Interview with the Fountainhead by Ayn Rice?
Radical capitalist vampires? No, I haven't, but I think I might like to.
KFG
This reminds me of
1. a Tom and Jerry cartoon where some superdangerous white mouse escapes from a lab and Tom mistakes it for Jerry who just fell into a bowl of flower
2. Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy!
(off to buy cheese stock)
That's putting it mildly...
Minnie's unconsious, Daisy is limping, and Goofy is hiding in a tree...
What have we done!? We should never have played god!
Scientists finally clued into what you're saying and decided they sure as hell didn't want any variety those "super mice" angry. All new "super mouse" models will now be forced to comply to the new industry standard in happiness.
Is your specific disease "inflamatory political statement syndrome" or are you just baiting? Maybe "enlarged vocabulary disorder" is a side-effect of your meds.
FairTax baby!
The first time I read the last line I thought it said They say it's the first time depression has been eliminated through genetic alteration of an orgasm
I thought no shit it's going to be happy. A happy little boinker. Boinky, boinky, boinky.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
It is truly an exciting time to be alive...as a mouse.
There's no place I can be, since I found Serenity.
Wait till they get a look at the mice that end up like the Reavers!
There are 10 kinds of people; those who know ternary, those who don't, and those now hunting for a dictionary.
exciting? maybe.. happy? ..with out a doubt.
Collector's Edition
So, did that English course go well?
I assume it starts with exposure to Form 1040, then Schedules A, C, asset depreciation rules, and a lot of coffee. It's all downhill from there.
You know, the funny thing is, I even looked up 'curriculum' on google before I posted, and still managed to mistype it..
Circumcision is child abuse.
Scientists can now produce singing, fearless , cancer resistant, super strong , plague-infected, mice with human brain cells from artificical sperm. On top of that these mice are now happy?!
Said mice were last over heard singing Monty Python's,"Always look on the bright side of life."
God spoke to me.
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Robots don't have any emotions, and sometimes that makes me very sad. -- Bender
sounds to me like those mice have a case of the Mondays
I dunno.
I was depressed because I sucked as an artist.
Then I quit art, and started fixing computers for a living.
I'm much happier now.
And I'm told my code is sheer poetry. (damn groupies)
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
Man, it's strange to see someone with such literary tastes on slashdot.