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Human Language Gene Changes How Mice Squeak
- russell 17y ago> Svante Paabo [said], "We will speak to the mouse." He did not promise that the mouse would say anything in reply. They do however whistle back. The "humanized" baby mice do so at a lower pitch than normal mice. I find it interesting how precise genetic engineering has gotten.
- Scriptor 17y agoFor anyone interested in the nitty gritty details, the original Cell article is here: http://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674(09)00378-X http://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674(09)00378-X Edit: And this video by the lead researcher himself is pretty good at explaining the basics of the research: http://download.cell.com/mmcs/journals/0092-8674/PIIS009286740900378X.mmc2.mov http://download.cell.com/mmcs/journals/0092-8674/PIIS0092867...