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Post by David on Sept 20, 2009 15:31:48 GMT -5
Story"A team of researchers at the Seoul National University produced the world's first cloned dog, an Afghan hound named Snuppy, in 2005, under Hwang's stewardship. ..." Beyond the fact that the guy may have or may have not does his work legitimately, they had successfully cloned a dog and as far as I can tell it survived just as if it were born naturally? I'm very interested in the fact that they are improving cloning techniques. When will they start experimenting on humans? Is it ethical? I think if they can continue to clone stem cell or properly clone them to help fight diseases that is perfectly fine but actually cloning a human is completely different and ignorant. There is no need for this as we have enough already lol ..
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Post by azza12342 on Sept 21, 2009 0:54:34 GMT -5
I don't even see the reason for cloning dogs, we have enough of them too, and they are not endangered or anything... But this research could lead to something good in the future so we cannot ignore it I guess.
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Post by David on Sept 21, 2009 10:04:33 GMT -5
Yeah, the whole dog thing is pointless but other endangered species in the future would help ... the Galapagos turtle could sure use this lol being the last of it's kind and all lol
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Post by azza12342 on Sept 21, 2009 10:31:55 GMT -5
Yeah that's true, but animals like Elephants and stuff would be so hard to clone because they are so big you would need double the size and amount of everything .
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Post by David on Sept 21, 2009 15:46:19 GMT -5
Well I don't think it's performed like that lol. I think it is done by cloning genes and/or dna ... so that they create a new or newborn animal and it grows and develops into the same animal?
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Post by azza12342 on Sept 22, 2009 2:13:40 GMT -5
I don't know to be honest, but I always thought it would be like they take all these different drugs and test them on the original animal first, once they get the doses right somehow they make a clone? I don't know, the way they do it is beyond me .
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Post by Xarver on Sept 24, 2009 18:11:42 GMT -5
I don't see the point in cloning people/animals. Maybe for endangered species, but it could be used wrongly. For example, make chinchillas to get their fur and sell it. Or, making a giant cloned army of humans and conquer the world.
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Post by azza12342 on Sept 25, 2009 13:13:54 GMT -5
Agree with the post above me, but if it's to save an endangered animal or something than im for it, but if it's to clone just to make money, than im dead against it!
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Post by David on Sept 25, 2009 15:09:43 GMT -5
I dunno though. I like the sport of hunting ... so ... Also, what about livestock and such? .. cloning cattle and such for our resources we need? .. other stuff .. ok I get it but stuff like food? .. mhmm..
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