Scientists breed world’s first mentally ill mouse

[Roon]

SCIENTISTS have created the world’s first schizophrenic mice in an attempt to gain a better understanding of the illness.

It is believed to be the first time an animal has been genetically engineered to have a mental illness. Until now they have been bred only for research into physical conditions such as heart disease. It will allow researchers to study the disease and develop treatments using a limitless supply of laboratory animals.

Animal rights campaigners have condemned the research, saying that it is morally repugnant to create an animal doomed to mental suffering.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2159295.ece

[cynatnite]

1. They must've used bush stem cells n/t

[Olney Blue]

2. Thank you for posting this, Roon. Very interesting.

[bbinacan]

3. It's a friggin' nasty mouse and

if what they learn will help humans, all the better.

[Wiley50]

4. I kinda doubt it's the very first insane mouse

but just the first deliberately mated to be such

I've never been too sure about Mickey

[dweller]

9. nor Minnie for that matter ...

she was f*cking Goofy.

dp

[Deja Q]

5. With all the mentally ill humans and they have to build a fucked up mouse to play with?!

What do human rights campaigners have to say on the issue; about humans being doomed to mental suffering?

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. My question is, how do they know?

Did they interview it with a team of mouse psychiatrists? Was it overheard to say it could smell colors?

[kenny blankenship]

7. The Standard Test. It's in the form of a story about Claire

Claire, while at the funeral of her mother, met this guy whom she did not know. Claire thought the guy was amazing, her dream man! She fell in love with him instantly, but never asked for his phone number and could
not find him after the funeral. A few days later Claire killed her sister.

Question: What was Claire's motive in killing her sister ?

The crazy mouse will answer without hesitation:
Because she was hoping that the guy would appear at the funeral again.

[Ghost in the Machine]

8. They better keep a *close* eye on that mouse. The first chimp they bred

that way escaped and somehow became president!