Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth

Re:Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve gr... by orgels_revenge on Monday March 06, 2023 @10:57PM (#35051364)

Thank god we have these close relatives to experiment on!

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Re:Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve gr... by wyldfire on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:35PM (#35051607)

Who's experimenting on whom? They're working on the Ultimate Question as we speak.

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Re:Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve gr... by nix23 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:49AM (#35053134)

;) It think we all know what the answer is.

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Re:Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve gr... by cutler on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @05:26AM (#35053734)

But left the fiddly bits and fjords to another species.

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Re:Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve gr... by KennyBlanken on Monday March 06, 2023 @11:37PM (#35051622)

They're used for research precisely because they have a great deal of similarities to humans. Also:

- they have a short gestation period and produce lots of young making it easy to breed them

- their opex is low

- they're easy and relatively safe to handle

- they're well understood

- there are numerous genetically engineered variants are available

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Re:Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve gr... by vasco on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @03:00AM (#35052787)

- And humans don't give a shit if we mass kill them because they are not overly cute.

Otherwise we'd just use humans or apes or something more similar to us.

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Re:Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve gr... by kevviiinn on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @05:43AM (#35053844)

Monkeys are used in research but they can be hard to work with. I've heard stories of flinging poop and them pulling implanted electrodes out of their brain

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