Monday, January 18, 2016

Evolved Mouse Project

Hi everyone ! I'm not sure that scientists nowadays really have a sense of humour, or are too free.

Most of the time, scientists carry out an experiment to get something useful out of it right ? However in this experiment, they decided to throw a bunch of genes into a mouse just to see what happens and records the results. Ergo, we got a mouse that chirps like a bird from Japan.

What will singing mice be used for ? Nobody really knows now. However, scientists claim that the goal of this project is to artificially speed up evolution but this is taking a rather strange turn right ?

This is a short clip of one of the mice using different tones and sounds, sort of like a dialect. Maybe we would even be able to communicate with them one day!



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