Tuesday, November 29, 2005

RU Scientist Create Mighty Mice

Working with the mice’s genes, they have discovered a “fear gene” that controls both innate and learned fear.
Their genes have been tweaked to make them unafraid.
In so doing, they have created a generation of lab mice who are a rather “cocky bunch.” (These lab mice sneer at danger)

Sounds like Danger Mouse to me! (But I keep getting an image of little white mice in brown leather jackets a felt fedora and a bull-whip on their belt…kindda like Indiana Mouse. Nah, they'd still be afraid of snakes.)

The goal is to help develop new means of treating anxiety disorders.

(Maybe that's why the football team has gotten better? Or why the free-throw shooting by the men's BBall team has improved?)

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