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![]() Why? What could be the purpose of this?
They have Dolly, they know it can be done, but just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
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![]() lots of tracks to consider with this.
the should we even do this is 1st one. and I agree with you guys the answer should be, "nope". Nearly All the arguments against dr Frankenstein and Jurassic Park apply seems to me. As well as animal cruelty concerns. some of the other issue to note here are the what they are saying about the science. 1. they need a "living" cell. so it's possible, but EXTREMELY unlikely, that "a" cell frozen thousands/10s of thousands of years ago could be alive and revived? seriously? 2. Cloning is possible ONLY when the DNA is "intact" but Most of the DNA of the horse has degraded and is broken "into tens of millions of pieces,". but they want to try and reconstruct the pieces ... based on looking at living horses DNA. Oookkkk um this is the same thing mentioned in Jurassic Park. And here's the thing. they have found dinosaur DNA. And Stretchy nearly intact dinosaurs cells. (if they were Millions of Years old they would have degraded thus refuting the millions of years time scale for dinosaurs BTW) https://kgov.com/dinosaur-soft-tissu...gical-material http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_co...&v=Fey-24KrXnE
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![]() Dolly's parents were both live animals. This foal is long dead.
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modern horse DNA to complete the process. imho when an article gets to the public it's probably old news in the scientific world. and money can buy a lot of research. ever since DNA was mapped , rest assured a good component and an equally bad one started the march toward their preferred genre of bounty. on one side you cure cancers, on the other someone's no doubt inches away from a mega monster.
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it won't be just 'one thing' to fix it. the biggest issue IMO is that still don't understand everything the parts do. even on a level of organs, there are still some that some biologist claim are "useless" but they keep finding out that these so-called useless parts are functional. and then they started to discover new biological systems, even in the human body. with DNA it's FAR more unknown, and FAR more complex than the complexity of the known organ system of man, and that's been studied for thousands of years. they just mapped the DNA molecular a few years ago they have VERY little idea of all the functions of each of the millions of bits of CODE that goes into human beings much less other animals. they've discovered that the DNA CODE is not just read by the CODE reading parts forwards, to give instructions to make toenail for instance, but it's also read backwards, and 3 dimensionally to give instrutions for other functions or the timing of other functions and those are not exactly known. Plus they've found that the genes are being read across areas in a wireless way giving instructions for proteins and such to perform certain functions. the level of complexity is FAR beyond what any computer code ever written or imagined. (BTW all the code we know about is made by an intelligent code writer... not random chemicals, events and time) But they are taking bits and pieces from ONE animals code and at best clumsily nailing it together with another animal. they have no real clue what may be missing or what the combo will or won't do in itself or out in nature as food, predator or even it's bodily secretions. The parts MAY look the same in many ways but the unknown elements are many. It's Doc Frankenstein activity, where the already created biology itself is doing most of the work. Doctors are putting together functional pieces, from one puzzle into another, and seeing what they get. most of it will and is broken and dysfunctional in some way. btw. Dolly the sheep had a lot of medical problems. and that was made from directly from a living animal. It's all fascinating theoretically but seems to me the scientist don't know as much as they seem to want to put on. And playing out these composite creatures in real life is not something we should do lightly, if at all. I'm kind of surprised the environmentalist haven't pushed back hard against some of this. Introducing new creatures into our ecosystem is a stressor on nature that no one can predict the outcomes of. It's already caused problems in the plant world with franken-plants of some of the big Agra Companies taking over natural ones in various areas in the Americas. Plus creating lone living animals seem a bit cruel on it's face.
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As a side note: DNA was mapped in the 90s.
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![]() Yep, but to me the 90's is just "a few years ago"... shows my age. Quote:
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