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Cloned Drug-Sniffing Dogs Prove Successful In South Korea
Rexdude writes "A prized drug-sniffing dog at Incheon Airport in South Korea was cloned four years ago, and now the clones have proven to be much more successful at becoming sniffer dogs themselves compared to regular dogs. Not as controversial as human cloning, but are we going to see genetic copyrights on prized animal breeds in the future?"
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Nah, they only sniff the drugs for leisure - recreational use. They have the Charlie Sheen gene in there somewhere.
They should use their powers for good. Give every child a clone of Lassie.
Pure-bred dogs are bred in such a small population that they were getting pretty close to being clones anyway.
They are the most expensive non-Human animals right? Other than perhaps extinct animals that people want to bring back like the Saber-tooth tiger, the wooly mammoth and the Dodo (not). What about truffle finding pigs?
Actually maybe certain transgenic animals that have had their DNA altered to express useful drugs (like goats with insulin laced milk) might be more expensive.
Anyway, is it illegal race a cloned racehorse? Will they be requiring genetic tests on all winning racehorses? What about race horses that have already died (Seabiscuit?).
Stupid question. If it can be done it/allowed will be done.
No wonder, they are they smartest dogs on this planet. And really good friends. And really kids friendly.
Monsanto has already patented their GMOs. Silly to ask if somethings goign to happen when it's already done.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
I mean, come on, folks. Korea is claiming performance in the cloned dogs that has never been proven in the original dogs. If they are correct, it would have to be some kind of magic.
Copyright is a different protection to patent.
A patent could protect a novel method of cloning. Ie, the specific way the geneticist uses his or her test tubes etc in the lab to get the clone. Wouldn't stop anyone breeding a sniffer dog.
A copyright cannot protect the clone. Unless the scientist actually wrote out the genome from his or her mind in some inspired supergenius way: GTTACCAATGCA....... Which is impossible.
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I remember the Toronto airport security testing out one of the electronic sniffers. It was supposed to be much more sensitive than dogs are.
The problem is, it was too sensitive. It turns out that after a few decades of smuggling, pretty much every surface in the baggage handling are has been exposed to drugs or explosives at some time or other, so the electronic sniffer kept going off.
When they turned down the sensitivity, it was no better than a dog.
Case in point: 90 percent of U.S. bils carry traces of cocaine. The fact that a sniffer or a dog "goes off" only justifies further investigation; it's far from proof.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
How do they prove successful? Do Cloned Drug-Sniffing Dogs simply taste better?
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
That's why we should use cats instead: cats wouldn't respond to cues from the handler.
Yeah but that was a robot, right? Like a cruise missile with legs.
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This is the new evolution
If you're fit enough to serve humans' purpose, you get to survive to the next generation.
Pity those animals that currently don't.
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I'm going to guess they have the same issues as other clones, to wit: shortened telomeres resulting in a shortened Hayflick limit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayflick_limit and therefore a shortened lifespan. Subtract out the age of the dog at the time the samples used for cloning were taken.
I made this same point (to NBC) as a possibility in early 1997 when Dolly the sheep was announced, and it turned out I was correct in my assertion; see this report: http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/15204559950020003
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And oxen. A lot.
...emitting useless cues about folks they dislike.
The cues they 'emit' do not have to be intentional - a reaction to seeing a particularly ugly piece of luggage or one that screams "conspicuous consumption" might set the dog off. You allude to that in the next sentence with the word 'subconscious'.
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
Agreed. Prohibition never works. It only breeds crime and violent criminal organizations which would never exist without prohibition. Legalize drugs and pull the rug out from under these violent gangs.
Yes but juggling them is something else altogether.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qbc2J0zZr8
But sniffing another clone's ass sends them into an existensial crisis.
A few years ago I read that cloned animals have the same age as their originals (right from the birth), thus cloning even middle aged animals becomes less attractive financially as clones have a substantially short(er) life span.
Is this fact still valid?
Anyone else see a secondary agenda here?
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
How an embryo was formed is no longer significant, if inbreeds have 100% the same genes. Thats his point.
I was promised a flying car. Where is my flying car?
So, if I commit a crime, can I have my clone do my time?
Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real-time.
They have the Charlie Sheen gene in there somewhere.
So... that guy really does like the bitches...
I suppose there should be a furry joke tossed in now.
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What if A and B are the same?
Yeah, and they're half jackals! And they're not cloned. The jackals and Siberian huskies were bred "naturally", which in Russia probably involves some romantic music and a dogbowl full of vodka. If this Korean dog really has such a great nose, they should breed it with the Sulimov dogs, which are probably even better at odor discrimination, but possibly less good at working with people (being half jackals). For now I pity the fool who flies into Moscow with a bag of cocaine in his underpants.