Monday, June 6, 2022

Messing with DNA, scientists breed aggressive hamsters

Did they never see any of the movies that warn, ‘Don’t do this’?

Adam Solomon

For Mails Online

Scientists inadvertently bred a horde of unusually aggressive hamsters after a gene editing experiment to 'reduce aggression' went wrong.

Researchers at Georgia State University produced new rodents without hormone vasopressin in an effort to raise 'social communication' between the rodents.


Yet the chemical change turned the Syrian hamsters wild, prompting fights inside cages.

The ultra-vicious hamsters were pictured pinning, biting and chasing each other.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10884147/Vicious-hamsters-bred-lab-accident.html

Link at Maggie’s Farm

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