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RE: Birds can navigate by using the Earth’s magnetic field, and scientists have recently discovered a protein in the eye that is likely responsible for this ability

in #nature7 years ago

Yeah, it's pretty cool indeed!

Hmm, in theory I suppose you could transfer genes from birds and to yourself to get the ability, but it's not really possible with the technology we have today. We humans have cryptochromes ourselves, but ours is too different, and most likely do not have the magnetoreception variant of the protein.

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but it's not really possible with the technology we have today

Maybe in the future it could be possible. Or maybe something similar to the magnetoreceptive abilities.