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T-Rex Could Help Humans Beat Depression
khabarexpress.com — Scientists at Aberdeen University have discovered a genetic link between dinosaurs and humans, which according to them could provide the key to developing a treatment for depression. The team found that the component in human DNA, which activates depression, was also present in dinosaurs and would have helped determine their moods.
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- philostrato, on 07/10/2008, -0/+9ha! i thought you were talking about the band t-rex.
- noseeme, on 07/10/2008, -0/+6What about Raptor Jesus?
- MarkusX, on 07/10/2008, -0/+9What? The dinosaurs became extinct, because they were depressed?
Cool stuff. - soniyashrma, on 07/10/2008, -0/+4great discovered a genetic link between dinosaurs and humans
- granolajoe, on 07/10/2008, -0/+6Ha. For a minute I thought that T-Rexes would be brought back to life to provide entertainment for depressed humans.
- WordsnCollision, on 07/10/2008, -0/+4Well, it worked on The Flintstones. Wilmaaaaa!!
- InvisibleInk, on 07/11/2008, -0/+3I think the whole idea that we could become extinct because of a gigantic asteroid plowing into the Earth is pretty depressing.
Whenever I think of those poor dinosaurs I become depressed. - vivisimonvi, on 07/11/2008, -0/+3People WTF!?!
Our economy is a depression!! - OneOfNone, on 07/11/2008, -0/+3Chicken. Not T-Rex. We don't have T-Rex genetic info yet, except for a very small protein sequence, so they studied the genes of currently living relatives of dinosaurs and assumed that dinosaurs must have had a particular genetic sequence because it stayed the same, unchanged, in mammals and birds.
Coincidentally, chicken dinner/soup *does* help against depression somewhat. Probably T-Rex soup would, too. I know it'd help me. - sadisticmind, on 07/11/2008, -0/+2i thought sex cured everything.
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