Ever wished you could delete the memory of an ex-boyfriend, a bad relationship, a disastrous blind date? Well, science might just be catching up to the movies.

Dr. Joe Z. Tsien of the Georgia School of Medicine successfully erased specific memories from a mouse's brain, leaving its other memories completely intact and undamaged.

Basically, Tsien has found that it's possible to pinpoint a memory at the moment that the subject (the mouse, for now) recalls it. By overworking a signaling protein in the brain at that instant, the memory can be physically eliminated -- in the case of the mice, the unpleasant memory of having its tiny paw shocked with a mild electrical current.

While the procedure has proven successful on mice, Tsien says there's still much work to be done before it can be tested on humans.

While we're all for the removal of traumatic memories from mice minds, we're a little wary of the effects that this kind of procedure might have on humans. What if, in the effort to erase to a painful relationship, you somehow wiped out all of 12th grade English? We'd hate to accidentally forget the Cliffs Notes for "Hamlet."