“People have a deep desire to communicate with animals, as is evident from the way they converse with their dogs, enjoy myths about talking animals or devote lifetimes to teaching chimpanzees how to speak. A delicate, if tiny, step has now been taken toward the real thing — the creation of a mouse with a human gene for language.”
Human Language Gene Changes How Mice Squeak - NYTimes.com (via mikehudack)
Sounds like the most shocking part of the experiment is how well the human gene sequence substitutes for the mouse gene sequence. And with that, we are one step closer to Jurassic Park.
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