Gotta love science

[thedeparted]

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/01/05/article-0-0F59237D00000578-780_634x438.jpg



Nightmarish 'supersoldier' ants with huge heads and jaws have been created by activating ancient genes.

Supersoldier ants can occur naturally in the wild, but only rarely. In the deserts of America and Mexico, their job is to protect the colony from raids by invading army ants.

The supersoldiers use their enormous heads to block the nest entrance and attack any enemy ants that get too close.

Scientists believe the monster ants may be a genetic throwback to an ancestor that lived millions of years ago.

Scientists say they can create the supersoldiers at will by dabbing normal ant larvae with a special hormone - the larvae then develop into supersoldiers rather than normal soldier or worker ants.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2082799/Supersoldier-ants-gigantic-jaws.html

lol gotta love science, bringing back old dormant genes to have mega headed ants running around

[LiNuX]

Oh the head got bigger because they altered the genes? I thought it was just his ego.


Cool.

[Mizel]

Oh the head got bigger because they altered the genes? I thought it was just his ego.


Hah xD



That’s just crazy… the developments and things we keep discovering and creating with Science is getting scary :O

[CraeSC111]

Behold! After years of research we have...... (wait for suspense to build) giant-headed ants!

[LiNuX]

Behold! After years of research we have...... (wait for suspense to build) giant-headed ants!

You don't seem impressed.

[paecmaker]

You don't seem impressed.

Me neither, the glowing mice are much cooler (until that ant bites me)

[Exodyus]

I'm waiting for the human trial. My ego is already flawless, but I'd love to have the ridiculously huge head to go with it...










Giggity.

[Bertrum]

I hate insects.. Insect extermination should be researched, not insect improvements!

[foof]

Oh the head got bigger because they altered the genes? I thought it was just his ego.


Cool.

http://i43.tinypic.com/2hmq4d5.gif

Anyways, cool. Let's start human genetic engineering now and make us live longer. Thanks. Stop doing useless things like making monkeys glow and growing ant heads.

[Sunsetforgotten]

http://i43.tinypic.com/2hmq4d5.gif

Anyways, cool. Let's start human genetic engineering now and make us live longer. Thanks. Stop doing useless things like making monkeys glow and growing ant heads.

I would go for some longevity. Maybe some super speed or invisibility.

............I guess I just want to be a super hero.

[CraeSC111]

I want to glow....

[foof]

I want to glow....

Sign up for human trials then.

Send emails to scientists saying you want to glow.

10 Minute Mail (http://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html)

Make a new email every time. Keep sending until they respond :)

[CraeSC111]

Oh God spam emails. Perfect

[Mizel]

I would go for some longevity. Maybe some super speed or invisibility.

............I guess I just want to be a super hero.

Amen to that.

[CraeSC111]

Super strength. But you have to have a giant head

[Mizel]

Hmmmm…. I think Ill pass on super strength then :P If I had to take any super power it’d def be Green Lantern style….

[nakarumi]

Oh dear gosh... just don't do it with fire ants. The welt you would develop from a bite from one of those may require immediate and dire medical attention. O_O

[CraeSC111]

Imagine how creepy it'd be seeing a swarm of those.

[LemonRising]

Change title to "This is what Canadian scientists do for fun."


Scientists created the monster ants in the laboratory by activating ancient ancestral genes

I SWEAR. THIS IS A LINE FROM A COMIC BOOK. IT HAS TO BE LMAO.

[egg-whites333]

lol this is so dumb start making radioactive spiders to bite me i want to be spider-man

[CraeSC111]

Its one of those things you do cause you can.

[Trunks]

I think it could lead to other findings that may be of some usefulness. Learning more about how DNA works could maybe help cure genetic diseases that we humans have. Have to start somewhere, they just chose to start on big headed ants.

[CraeSC111]

Well they did that with hormones. And they already mapped out the entire human genome. But testing on people is "amoral"

[Trunks]

Yeah, they mapped it, not sure what it all quite means and how they function together though.

Yeah, I could see a problem with a human baby coming out with a huge head...

[nakarumi]

Oh wow... the sheer thought of that is rather painful. O_O:shocked:

[CraeSC111]

Now that I think of it that way....

[nakarumi]

Disturbing, is it not? =/

[CraeSC111]

Thank God those ants lay eggs