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Deleting Certain Gene Makes Mice Smarter
An anonymous reader writes "Deleting a certain gene in mice can make them smarter by unlocking a mysterious region of the brain considered to be relatively inflexible, scientists at Emory University School of Medicine have found. Mice with a disabled RGS14 gene are able to remember objects they'd explored and learn to navigate mazes better than regular mice, suggesting that RGS14's presence limits some forms of learning and memory."
Hey, i first-posted a joke about Intel Upgrade Service in this thread over two hours before your post. I'm not trying to be a prick about it; I'm just curious. I find it interesting that you made the same connection in the same thread without seeming to notice mine.
Do you not read the threads at all, do you just skim over them, do you reply to the summary then read, or do you filter out posts moderated "Funny"? Maybe you filter out posts made by me, in which case I'd probably never get a reply, but you're not listed as a freak of mine or anything. Really, I'm not bitching about it. I'm just wondering how it happened, because it's something often seen and seldom addressed. Oh, there are "redundant" mods, which your post isn't because although we both mentioned the same humorous analogy from the front page I made a simple joke of it and you actually extended the analogy for further discussion. I'm just curious about the phenomenon of such disconnects between previous posts and later ones when obviously there's no time overlap between posts.