Erasing Karma!!!

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For some reason the link did not work. So am posting the article.

 

 

Japan Scientists Develop Fearless Mice

 

By KAORI HITOMI

Associated Press Writer

 

 

AP Photo/Ko and Reiko Kobayakawa

 

 

TOKYO (AP) -- Cat and mouse may never be the same. Japanese

scientists say they've used genetic engineering to create mice that

show no fear of felines, a development that may shed new light on

mammal behavior and the nature of fear itself.

 

Scientists at Tokyo University say they were able to successfully

switch off a mouse's instinct to cower at the smell or presence of

cats - showing that fear is genetically hardwired and not learned

through experience, as commonly believed.

 

" Mice are naturally terrified of cats, and usually panic or flee at

the smell of one. But mice with certain nasal cells removed through

genetic engineering didn't display any fear, " said research team

leader Ko Kobayakawa.

 

In his experiment, the genetically altered mice approached cats,

even snuggled up to them and played with them. Kobayakawa said he

chose domesticated cats that were docile and thus less likely to

pounce.

 

Kobayakawa said his findings, published in the science magazine

Nature last month, should help researchers shed further light on how

the brain processes information about the outside world.

 

Kim Dae-soo, a neural genetics professor at the Korea Advanced

Institute of Science and Technology in Seoul, who was not involved

in the research, said Kobayakawa's research could explain further

what fear is, and how to control it.

 

" People have thought mice are fearful of cats because cats prey on

them, but that's not the case, " Kim said.

 

" If we follow the pathway of related signals in the brain, I think

we could discover what kind of networks in the brain are important

for controlling fear. "

 

 

 

 

, " vinita kumar "

<shankar_mamta wrote:

>

> We had discussed some time back that the bedrock of astrology is

the

> theory of karma. there are ancient texts to prove the same.

>

> One entertaining way to look at karma in the modern context is

that

> our past actions/reactions/mental make-up gets codified in the DNA

we

> are born with.

>

> With genetic engineering could karma be erased????

>

> Please read the following article:

>

> http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/J/JAPAN_FEARLESS_MOUSE?

> SITE=KOPB & SECTION=HOME & TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

>

> If humans are cloned what karma will they be born with???

>

[Guest guest]

I am poor in medical knowledge, yet my little reading on this subject

has indicated irrespective of modern cloning methods, yet there is a

requirement of " flesh & body " to grow the cells into embroyo and to a

full grown baby - animal or human form. So , the " entity " which is

bringing such " cloned " ones would inherit the karma of that mother and

in the mother hororscope to reveal the -medical assisted -child bearing.

 

The science is still far away where the cells & embryos can be developed

into their respective full forms in the test-tubes of the laboratory.

 

with regards,

 

sreeram_srinivas

 

 

 

 

, " vinita kumar "

<shankar_mamta wrote:

 

For some reason the link did not work. So am posting the article.

 

 

Japan Scientists Develop Fearless Mice

 

By KAORI HITOMI

Associated Press Writer

 

 

AP Photo/Ko and Reiko Kobayakawa