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Frozen Mice Cloned
m0rphin3 writes "Japanese scientists have cloned mice whose bodies were frozen for as long as 16 years and said on Monday it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species. Could we finally see Jurassic Park become a reality, or perhaps use this for colonizing other galaxies?"
Who keeps dead mice in their freezer for 16 years? Remind me not to have the Brunswick stew at their house.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
We use this technology to colonize other galaxies with giant wooly mamoths. That would be so cool.
16,000 or 160,000,000 years. While this may be "just engineering" to some, it's still a big just as there's still a lot of DNA degradation that happens over the course of millennia. There's a lot of reasons this might not work for a species we've never seen develop.
Of course it may work smackingly well and we'll all have miniature pet t-rex's in my lifetime. That would be sweet, the cat may not like it though.
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Getting ahead of ourselves, arent we?
Why don't we check out the 400 billion stars in our own galaxy first?
Or is it you don't know what a galaxy is?
(Sorry, is that too many rhetorical questions?)
That's why this type of research needs to continue to push forward.
We could be eating fresh prime rib almost every day without worrying about ethical issues concerning the raising of animals in inhumane conditions, and we'd be cutting down on the methane as well as not having to pump our meat full of hormones and antibiotics. It's much easier to grow a mass of muscle cells and raise them to maturity than it would be to grow an entire animal from scratch. I'll gladly be a guinea pig as I don't care of the meat looks like a softball so long as it tastes good.
because there's hardly any DNA left in those fossils, let alone anything that's not damaged beyond recognition.
Mammoths, saber toothed cats or other species that have gone extinct more recently on the other hand...
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I've already seen much comment by fanatical vegans on the Internet that even meat from lab-grown cells is deplorable. Their reasoning is that even if no animal was actually killed, people have still not subdued that part of themselves that gets pleasure from eating animal flesh.
I've already seen much comment by fanatical vegans on the Internet that even meat from lab-grown cells is deplorable.
But those are vegans. Us vegetarian-types would buy up lab-meat by the ton.
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I mean, I'm all for freezing polar bears and other endangered species so that we can revive them when the weather is better (kind of like that grain vault) but shouldn't it be regulated so that it isn't creating awkward scenarios?
Like what, a long extinct animal suddenly appearing at a dinner party, causing everybody to spit out their drinks?
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
Many vegans have the righteous "anti-establishment" mentality while refusing to understand that humans are omnivores and have been engineered to eat meats and plants. We need plants for minerals and meats for amino acids.
I think it'd be easier to kill all the hippies.
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Cruelty adds flavor.
Could we finally see Jurassic Park become a reality
Yea we should totally do that, because it worked out so well in the movie.
The point is that they didn't do anything special to protect the cells against the damage of freezing. They took a mouse that was frozen just the way an animal would be frozen after death in the wild and worked around the damage freezing causes. The current cloning processes all use an intact healthy cell from an adult. This proves that's not necessary.
It's interesting that you mention this; http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/05/print/main4575403.shtml .
RIP http://news.google.co.uk/news/url?sa=t&ct=uk/0-0&fp=491182f120c62f7f&ei=XuERScjTB4LAwgGmqZTzBA&url=http%3A//www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/05/print/main4575403.shtml&cid=0&usg=AFQjCNHcr8G0ar1Zy3zr0YIYCdj0c4I2iw
Mmmm. Animal flesh. (drool). I wonder what Vegan tastes like?
Rather like cat. Not as gamey as dog, and lighter in texture than squirrel. Similar to kobe beef, but not quite as much marbling, due to the lack of fat in their diet. Oh, and utterly *unlike* rabbit.
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....with TWO frozen mice?
Why would a vegan/vegetarian give a rats ass if a hunk of tofu tastes like turkey (or a hotdog, hamburger, etc) unless they THIRST FOR THE TASTE OF ANIMAL FLESH!!!