Reverse Evolution

Scientists have reversed evolution, reconstructing a gene that existed more than 500 million years ago. The gene controls our ability to smile or frown. http://www.sciencentral.com/video/v

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• evolution
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[Darkada]

It's important to understand what's under the hood of the car before deciding to turbo charge everything. Experiments like this are giving us vital information on what goes where and why.

[dsgraphita]

I am that mouse- and I can't laugh about it

[crazy650c]

This is not reversed evolution. What it is...is the removal of information...a.k.a. man made entropy to create the mice without the ability to do something and then re-introducing the missing information which allows function to return. There is no re-creation...it is just re-assembling a deconstructed gene. 500 million years....LOL.

[megamanium]

Observations of how these genes can be reintroduced can show the intricacies of evolution in action.

[Phyerbyrd]

I'm sure glad I'm not that mouse.

[funincluded]

Holy poo!

We just learned about the relevance of gene duplication to this kind of thing at 1:03

[TwiggyJack]

I'm pretty sure it's a disorder that's been fixed by repairing a certain gene.

[simsoy55]

I don't see how this is going to help us in any way? Wouldn't it be a better use of money trying to speed up evolution instead of undoing millions of years of better advancements?

[HankF89]

I'm a little confused. Is the mouse at the beginning (that couldn't blink or move its whiskers) the genetically altered one, or is that how mice normally are?

[wOoL87]

I can always agree on that one :)