After an experiment goes wrong, scientists inadvertently create a horde of particularly vicious HAMSTERS - TDPel Media


6/4/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by Jack Sylva

After a gene editing experiment to'reduce aggression' went wrong, scientists inadvertently generated a colony of abnormally violent hamsters. Researchers

To learn more, scientists turned off Avpr1a, a receptor in the brain that interacts with vasopressin.The rats were supposed to grow friendlier now that they were immune to the hormone. The consequen… [+860 chars]

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