The strange case of the cyclops sheep - Tien Nguyen
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In the 1950s, a group of ranchers in Idaho were baffled when their sheep gave birth to lambs with a singular deformity. Mystified by these cyclops sheep, they called in scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate. The researchers hypothesized that the pregnant ewes had snacked on poisonous birth defect-causing plants. They collected the local flora and fed samples to lab rats, but struggled to replicate the effect. So they decided to directly observe the sheep with one scientist even living with the herd for three summers. After a decade of trial and error, the scientists finally found the culprit, wild corn lilies. The lilies contained an active molecule with six connected rings that they named cyclopamine in reference to the cyclop...
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In the 1950s, a group of ranchers in Idaho were baffled when their sheep gave birth to lambs with a singular deformity. Mystified by these cyclops sheep, they called in scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate. The researchers hypothesized that the pregnant ewes had snacked on poisonous birth defect-causing plants. They collected the local flora and fed samples to lab rats, but struggled to replicate the effect. So they decided to directly observe the sheep with one scientist even living with the herd for three summers. After a decade of trial and error, the scientists finally found the culprit, wild corn lilies. The lilies contained an active molecule with six connected rings that they named cyclopamine in reference to the cyclop...
