{"id":15,"date":"2007-05-10T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=15"},"modified":"2007-05-10T18:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T02:35:00","slug":"the-uplift-protein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"The Uplift Protein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neuropsin, that is.  A prefrontal-cortex protein involved in learning and memory.  There&#8217;s this one variant that&#8217;s peculiar to us Humans, 45 amino acids longer than the standard model handed out to other primates, and a team of Chinese researchers <span nd=\"1\" name=\"intelliTxt\" id=\"intelliTXT\">have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news97825267.html\">just nailed the gene that codes for it<\/a>.  And the really cool part?  Utterly ignoring all those  some-things-man-was-not-meant-to-know types, they spliced the causal mutation into chimpanzee DNA, which then started to synthesise the type-II variant.  No word yet on how far they let that stretch of code iterate.  No word on how many months away we are from building chimps with human-scale intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The actual paper isn&#8217;t out yet.  But I&#8217;m really hoping my U of T library access is still active when <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Human Mutation<\/span> prints the details.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuropsin, that is. A prefrontal-cortex protein involved in learning and memory. There&#8217;s this one variant that&#8217;s peculiar to us Humans, 45 amino acids longer than the standard model handed out to other primates, and a team of Chinese researchers have just nailed the gene that codes for it. And the really cool part? Utterly ignoring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-neuro","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}