The Language Gene

This is your actual work? I think it's very interesting, tell me do you have an ultimate goal with this line of work, or are you kind of.. going with it? Just looking at what's been discovered in the last fifty years imagine what people in that field will learn in the future.

This is your actual work?

Well, this is my old professor's work, although he involves me a fair bit, so yea.

As for the ultimate goal, I find biology, and science in general very interesting. In my free time I mostly read text-books. As bad as it sounds, that's me. I would like to go into the field of neuroscience after college, so while I find this interesting, if I wanted to assign a more pragmatic goal to this I could say that a positive recommendation from my professor would drastically improve my chances of getting into a good Md/PhD program.

One day you'll be a published scientist yourself .

One day you'll be a published scientist yourself .

Heh, I would love to see my name on a journal article.

that and I thought maybe there was some bizzare theory that you could change the language someone speaks by altering genes and or protiens.

You could certainly change someone's ability to speak through genetic treatment (which would vicariously change protein expression). Language itself, is not programmed into the genes, so you couldn't change what language someone spoke, however the ability for language is programmed into the genes.

is because of that dinosaur dna show on Discovery the other night,

Talking about that show "before the dinosaurs?" I think that's what it's called. Yea, I missed the last few, but it's a very interesting show.

A random tidbit I'd like to throw out that it seems many don't know is that birds are the only living descendants of dinosaurs.

Nono, the one after that, when they were expieramenting with genes in a chicken embryo and grew very primitive teeth, and a longer tail and other things, it was facinating, they basicly have found that the blueprint of ancient birds/dinosaurs were essentially still in the current chicken DNA that the different structures are activated or inactivated by either timing or protiens.

Nono, the one after that, when they were expieramenting with genes in a chicken embryo and grew very primitive teeth, and a longer tail and other things, it was facinating, they basicly have found that the blueprint of ancient birds/dinosaurs were essentially still in the current chicken DNA that the different structures are activated or inactivated by either timing or protiens.

Ahh. Not sure which show that is then. If you'd hook me up with a link, I'd love to check it out some time.

I can't freakin think of it, I can't find it online, hopefully it will come to me...

Well, this is my old professor's work, although he involves me a fair bit, so yea. As for the ultimate goal, I find biology, and science in general very interesting. In my free time I mostly read text-books. As bad as it sounds, that's me. I would like to go into the field of neuroscience after college, so while I find this interesting, if I wanted to assign a more pragmatic goal to this I could say that a positive recommendation from my professor would drastically improve my chances of getting into a good Md/PhD program.

I got ya, the only real reason I opened a thread about genes, is because of that dinosaur dna show on Discovery the other night, that and I thought maybe there was some bizzare theory that you could change the language someone speaks by altering genes and or protiens.