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@tangming2005 Super helpful! 😄

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@cathyhobart @ScienceBuddies Great share! We're also a student run science blog aiming to simplify science and make it accessible for all readers. You might enjoy our posts too!

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@SannaMadan It's great to see another researcher joining the science blog community, welcome!

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@agingdoc1 @SannaMadan Hello, we are a student science blog too that you might enjoy!

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Happy Sunday! Did you know this fun fact about why blood is red? 💡 #STEM #ScienceIsAwesome #Scicomm

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Did you know sense of smell might be causing brain cancers? 🧠 https://t.co/KdrdesKFk8 #health #neuroscience #scicomm

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@annabelle_xoxx That article says that they DO NOT know if the vaccine integrates into the genome. Just that it is reverse transcribed into DNA.

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@OriAndTheGhost @MetroUK But in conclusion, the SOLE purpose of this study was to investigate what would happen to social behaviour in hamsters if the Avpr1a receptor was removed all over the body. They were not out to make hamsters nicer.

Media outlets did not do this justice AT ALL.

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@OriAndTheGhost @MetroUK Vasopressin is a hormone that binds to the Avpr1a receptor in the brain. It was expected that doing this would reduce aggression because this is what had happened before when they stopped the Avpr1a receptor from working. That's not what happened, thus unexpected aggression. 3/n

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@OriAndTheGhost @MetroUK Why were they trying to understand social behaviour? Because of the way it is done in the brain, it is EXTREMELY complicated so we are trying to understand it better. Mostly for neuropsychiatric purposes. Something that was thought to affect social behaviour was vasopressin (2/n)

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@OriAndTheGhost @MetroUK The researchers were trying to understand the function of the Avpr1a receptor in hamsters. They were not removing a hormone, they were removing a receptor from all over the brain. They did this to understand social behaviour better in these hamsters. (1/n)

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@OriAndTheGhost @MetroUK Is this something from the Metro article. Just letting you know, Metro horrifically misrepresented the original research article published by the authors.

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@ClassyEarlGrey @BobTregilus A lot of new therapeutics have come come, and are being produced, because a gene editing tool like CRISPR has somehow been involved in discovering the mechanism of a disease (which then makes it possible to make treatments).

A great tool comes with great responsibilities.

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@ClassyEarlGrey @BobTregilus Yup I get that. CRISPR is just a tool in the end, just like social media.

I guess, also keep in mind all the good it has done. You hear about this sort of study where "it has all gone wrong!!!11!!" but what about the small wins that CRISPR gets for diseases? 1/2

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@Micheal89203193 @KananaskisKev @MetroUK But do keep in mind that usually more specific studies are done to support it. If gene X caused higher blood pressure then the scientists will do other experiments (not necessarily genetic) to figure out what is happening

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@Micheal89203193 @KananaskisKev @MetroUK Yup, exactly! If you want to figure out what gene X does, you remove gene X and see what the effect is. If it causes the animal to have extremely high blood pressure, then you know gene X was probably involved in lowering blood pressure.

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@NocteTheDragon @sphinx568 @MetroUK Why do you think that? This was done so social behaviour could be better studied in hamsters. Just because this happened in hamsters, does not mean it will happen in humans.

Anyways, stuff like this is hugely important for understanding the brain so disorders can be treated.

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What was your favourite subject in school? 📚✏️

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Stem cells! You know those magical cells that make up our bodies? 🧬Scientists have found a way to revert adult cells BACK into stem cells! How did they do it? 🤔
https://t.co/f6wMmUc6Wt #research #STEM #scicomm

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@Jay1Pat Sorry to hear about your mom. We wish her a speedy recovery and hope everything goes well.