• Xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink
    2·
    11 months ago

    I think the scientists are more worried about why the snail’s head is the size of a human rather than the memory loss…

  • Savvy95@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 months ago

    It reminds me of that old joke of the 2 scientists studying a fly.

    Scientist 1: Fly, fly! Scientist 2: When fly has two wings fly flies 2 feet.

    Scientist 1: pulls off one wing and says Fly, Fly! Scientist 2: When fly has 1 wing, fly flies 1 foot

    Scientist 1: pulls off the other wing and says, Fly, fly!. Nothing happens Scientist 1 Fly, Fly! Nothing happens Scientist 1 showing frustration> FLY! FLY! Scientist 2: When fly has no wings, fly becomes deaf.

    Bad-dum!

  • solstice@lemmy.world
    0·
    11 months ago

    Since the comments all appear to be juvenile Reddit style jokes, here’s TFA (the frickin article: https://futurism.com/scientists-selectively-erased-memories-in-snails-are-we-next#

    Note, I’m not a scientist.

    As I suspected it appears they tortured the snails somehow (my guess is electric shock) to create traumatic memories. This has been done with caterpillars I think to see if they retain memories after turning into butterflies and they do, despite basically turning into primordial goop in the cocoon. They do, and it’s tested by seeing if they retain aversions to certain areas of their cages that are electrified.

    Then something about enzymes created which associate memory with pain and being able to target them.

    Pretty cool, and I for one definitely have a few traumas I’d like erased.

  • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.de
    01·
    11 months ago

    Humans experimenting on weaker animals has peak fashist vibes.

    “bUt iTs oNLy a SnAiL” yeah and before anything happens on humand they will experiment on mammals.

    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
      1·
      11 months ago

      Would you prefer all medicines and other technologies skip trials and go straight to the counter?

    • Femcowboy@lemm.ee
      0·
      11 months ago

      Call me Hitler but it’s only a snail. If this can erase my dad strangling me or watching someone shoot themself from my brain IDC how many invertebrates die for it.

        • Femcowboy@lemm.ee
          1·
          11 months ago

          Dogs? We have a limitless supply, go nuts scientists. Chimps eh let’s say less than 30, the lower the amount of chimps that die the better but at the end of the day, traumatic experiences vastly reduce quality of life for people, so if chimps gotta die, they gotta die.