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Brain from Gray's Anatomy

If you’ve ever faced a final exam on subject matter you just haven’t been able to get your head around, you might like to know about a gene called HMGA2, recently identified by a team of 207 researchers at UCLA. The good part is that HMGA2 has reliably been shown to increase human IQ, leading some to think that the next step might be the mythical “smart pill” dreamed of by many a college student.

However —

The bad part is that the same study showed that the increase could be only something under 2%, or less than the difference between a D and a C+. So hit those books!

This entry was posted on November 23, 2012 at 12:30 am under Science. Tagged . Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. Dan Gollub says:

    I’d be glad to take 50 of those pills to double my intelligence.

    November 23, 2012, 7:11 am

  2. Nestor says:

    I think I’m more on the market for brain deadening drugs right now…

    November 26, 2012, 5:54 am

  3. Dwight says:

    Hi.
    In 2009, you posted a blog commentbabiutva Twilight Zone episode. In it, Astronaugts made utvto the end of the universe. They discovered they were in a glass bottle.

    What episode were you referring to?
    I can’t find it any where.

    December 9, 2012, 7:00 am