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Cloning Yields Human-Rabbit Hybrid Embryo

Posted by michael on from the watership-now dept.

ralphb writes "Here is the story of scientists in China who have, for the first time, used cloning techniques to create hybrid embryos that contain a mix of DNA from both humans and rabbits. Hop on over for a look!"

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  1. God, I've seen a lot of crap movies.... by sweeney37 · · Score: 5, Funny

    My dear god, didn't any of these "scientists" ever see Night of the Lepus?!

    We're all doomed!!

    Mike

    1. Re:God, I've seen a lot of crap movies.... by emdean091876 · · Score: 4, Funny

      > Of course, a little rabbit never hurt anybody. It's the really huge rabbits we have to worry about.

      What about the rabbit with big narly teeth that almost killed all of Sir Arthurs knights?

    2. Re:God, I've seen a lot of crap movies.... by Etherwalk · · Score: 3, Funny

      Of course! Sorry, clarification: It's the really huge rabbits we have to worry about, and the really fast rabbits. Small rabbits that are not fast at attacking armored men and killing them, merely present the same troubles as tribbles.

    3. Re:God, I've seen a lot of crap movies.... by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Funny

      I warned you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little bunny, isn't it? Well, it's always the same. I always tell them--

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    4. Re:God, I've seen a lot of crap movies.... by kin_korn_karn · · Score: 4, Funny

      Can I get a Pat Buchanan Gerbil here please.
      Hang on, I gotta pull it out of Bill O'Reilly's ass..

    5. Re:God, I've seen a lot of crap movies.... by jrl87 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I guess that means if you can count to 3 no more no less, we could destroy it with the holy hand grenade

  2. Tasteless by ComaVN · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, babies with a healthy appetite for sex

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    1. Re:Tasteless by Cpt_Kirks · · Score: 4, Funny

      Is this the place to make the obligitory remark about Chinese and Rabbit mating habbits?

      There are, after all, a *LOT* of Chinese...

      "I'm multiplying Doc, I'm multiplying."

  3. Hugh Hefner at work? by Pharmboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    China trying to compete with Hugh and create their own Playboy Bunnies? Not to mention the potential for pleasure, knowing how rabbits multiply....

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    1. Re:Hugh Hefner at work? by lovebyte · · Score: 5, Funny

      knowing how rabbits multiply

      New Chinese policy: Only one baby rabbit per couple!

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    2. Re:Hugh Hefner at work? by cygnus · · Score: 4, Funny
      New Chinese policy: Only one baby rabbit per couple!

      Lenny's going to be pissed when he accidentally kills his...

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  4. I for one by prisoner · · Score: 4, Funny

    Welcome our new fuzzy over...nevermind.

  5. Bah... by Anonymous+Custard · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bah, what a trivial story. Let me know when they can make a monkey with four asses. THEN, I'll be impressed!

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    1. Re:Bah... by tbase · · Score: 3, Funny

      Maybe we should just leave nature to its simple, one-asses schematics.

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    2. Re:Bah... by Lord+Dimwit+Flathead · · Score: 5, Funny

      They're way ahead of you. From the article:

      The team said it retrieved foreskin tissue from two 5-year-old boys and two men, and facial tissue from a 60-year-old woman, as a source of skin cells. They fused those cells with New Zealand rabbit eggs from which the vast majority of rabbit DNA had been removed.

      If you thought rotten.com was bad, just wait until foreskinrabbitface.com goes live.

    3. Re:Bah... by MxTxL · · Score: 5, Funny

      Let me know when they can make a monkey with four asses.

      They already can. Actually, it's five asses. The prototype one they have developed is named Darl McBride and the asses are named Sontag, Bench, Wilson, Hunsaker and Broughton

    4. Re:Bah... by Gleng · · Score: 3, Funny

      God, Schmod. I want my monkeyman!

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  6. Hrmm by acehole · · Score: 5, Funny

    I for one welcome our new human-rabbit hybrid masters.

    I will remind them that I could be useful in rounding up people to toil in their underground carrot mines.

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  7. human DNA by invalid_argument · · Score: 3, Funny

    "I think because all the nuclear DNA is human," Doerflinger said, "we'd consider this an organism of the human species."

    Better pay attention, when you go hunting next time.

  8. Those monsters! by 0xdeadbeef · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't they know that adding human DNA to rabbit embryos is a crime against nature? They should abort babies for those stem cells, the way God intended.

  9. This is neat and all, but... by I'm+a+racist. · · Score: 3, Funny

    How many asses does it have? I suspect it's less than five.

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  10. Is that very useful ? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 3, Funny

    Scientists in China have, for the first time, used cloning techniques to create hybrid embryos that contain a mix of DNA from both humans and rabbits

    I thought China needed to control the exponential growth of their population, do they really need that? They should sell the technology to the state of Florida instead ...

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  11. Obj Monty Python by UnknowingFool · · Score: 4, Funny
    What kinds of future hybrids can we have?

    Wizard: It's a horrible beast.
    King Arthur: What, you mean behind the bunny rabbit?
    Wizard: It IS the bunny rabbit?

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  12. What I really want to know is... by Warlover · · Score: 4, Funny

    When are they gonna stop fooling around and start engineering Carmen Electra clones that have a thing for network admins...

  13. Foreskins by Zog+The+Undeniable · · Score: 4, Funny

    RTFA and you'll find the cells used for the DNA were a mix of rabbit skin and human foreskin. Imagine explaining that when your long-eared, buck-toothed teenager asks "Daddy, where do babies come from?"

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  14. if a cell = a life then... by rokzy · · Score: 4, Funny

    every time you bang your head you become a mass murderer?

    or would you say it's a multiple suicide?

    either way, I'm definitely going to hell, right?

  15. Re:Not really a mutant by saskwach · · Score: 5, Funny

    So...It's a bunny-powered human? Does Energizer know about this?

  16. Advertiser Links by ddkilzer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did anyone notice the advertiser links at the bottom of the page for Latest Stem Cell Therapy and Dwarf Rabbit?

    Talk about keyword advertising gone awry!

  17. Re:Smoking Man at work? by buckeyeguy · · Score: 4, Funny
    Sit outside any Wal-Mart and observe the fact that cattle-like humans already exist...

    As for rabbits... couldn't they have picked a cooler species to intermix with? Wolves, cheetahs (fast sprinters for the Olympics!), bears... hmph. Definitely not primates though... anyone seeing 28 Days Later should put the kibosh on that one.

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  18. Next step . . . by Jaywalk · · Score: 5, Funny

    So when are they going to cross ninjas with turtles?

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  19. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Refrence... by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now we finally know why Anya was so afraid of rabbits... She saw their future as our masters...

  20. Think of the furries... by Randolpho · · Score: 5, Funny

    The furry crowd must be mighty yiffy over this little development. :)

    Of course... they're mostly yiffy all the time.....

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  21. Re:Not really a mutant by fenix+down · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know, what the hell's with the headlines on this story? They cloned human stem cells using rabbit cell-goo, they didn't make "rabbit-human" hybrids.

    To clone human stem cells:
    1) Find woman to let you jam a needle into her ovary
    2) Stick random human cell nucleus in egg you sucked out
    3) ???
    4) Stem Cells!!

    To clone human stem cells in China:
    1) Look for woman to let you jam a needle into her ovary
    2) Get kicked in the nads
    3) Buy rabbits
    4) Jam a needle in rabbit ovary
    5) Stick random human cell nucleus in egg you sucked out
    6) ???
    7) Stem Cells!!
    8) Claim to have created rabbit-babies
    9) Wait for science-illiterate newsmen to promote your stock symbol on TV
    10) Profit!!

    What a bunch of fuckholes. Seriously, when the best scientific information in your article's coming from the Vatican, I think you're in trouble.

  22. China develops bunny hibrid! by leoboiko · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow! The results are impressive!

    Chinese scientists announced that now they'll focus research in catgirls.

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  23. Long term results. by praksys · · Score: 3, Funny

    Some wondered aloud what, exactly, such a creature would be if it were transferred to a womb to develop to term.

    Some actually turned out ok, others not so well.

  24. Did they smell the human contributors? by iabervon · · Score: 3, Funny

    So the resulting cells are human cells, except that tracing the maternal line using the standard techniques would... "Your mother was a hamster!"

  25. Re:Island of Dr. Moreau by usotsuki · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hikaru Usada!!!

    (She's an anime character with rabbit ears.)

    -uso.

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  26. Re:Happy conception day to yoooooou.... by Sven+The+Space+Monke · · Score: 3, Funny
    It was a Calvin & Hobbes reference.

    Actually, I was a c-section baby. Tried to strangle myself with the umbilical cord. I heard the Bee Gees and decided I wanted no part of this world.

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  27. Sluggites Unite by fcs-error · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is only the begining! Bun-Bun is coming!

  28. not another one?! by Tablizer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh great, now Bugs Bunny will also be able to run for Governor of Califorina.

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