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Extinct Pyrenean Ibex Cloned
jamie points out a story in the Telegraph about a project to clone the Pyrenean Ibex (known also as bucardo), a species that went extinct in 2000. Before the last known member of the species died, scientists took tissue samples to begin a project to clone the animal. "Using techniques similar to those used to clone Dolly the sheep, known as nuclear transfer, the researchers were able to transplant DNA from the tissue into eggs taken from domestic goats to create 439 embryos, of which 57 were implanted into surrogate females. " Now, for the first time, one of them has survived the gestation period, living for seven minutes after birth. One of the researchers said, "The delivered kid was genetically identical to the bucardo. In species such as bucardo, cloning is the only possibility to avoid its complete disappearance."
So.... I'm hoping the Ibex can breed within the first 3 minutes. Yes?
Does Mark Shuttleworth know about this?
city living boy, but when did goats start laying eggs?
> Better, stronger, faster.
Looking at its lifetime, we did a very very good job at the 'faster' part.
Quiet liberal. Cloning is the manly, patriotic way of doing things. I bet you're one of the types who thinks we should worry about global warming before the ice caps melt, huh?
Let's start by killing you off first.
Or to become extinct twice.
Assholes made the Ibex extinct... again.
Problem is wild animals can't really be reasoned with.
Just because Cows are exhibitionist sex aholics doesn't mean ever species will breed in captivity.
An ibex doesn't care if it's about to go extinct, it's going to be just as easy to breed in captivity if there are a million left or two.
Even some humans swear "if we were the last two people on earth they still wouldn't sleep with you"--Errr "them"! I meant to say "They wouldn't sleep with them"!
Saying that evolution is false is a lot like saying that optimization is false
But optimization is, by default, false unless you specify the -O option.
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