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January 17th, 2006, 06:32 AM
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Re: This is mad science at it\'s finest!
"Und now, Igor, eet eez time for ze phinal faze of ze plan..... Bring out ze GLOVING PEEGZ!!!"
edit: Just saw that one of the top Asia-Pacific stories they're running now is "Taiwanese Premier Hsieh resigns"..... Anything to do wiz ze gloving peegs?
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January 17th, 2006, 12:21 PM
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Re: This is mad science at it\'s finest!
Of all the genetic things you could do to an animal why make it glow green in the dark?
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January 17th, 2006, 12:35 PM
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Re: This is mad science at it\'s finest!
That was explained in the article.
A genetic marker which makes stuff glow means you can see where stuff is going and what it is doing in a nondestructive way.
In actual use, you would only apply the marker to the specific thing you want to keep track of.
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January 17th, 2006, 02:56 PM
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Re: This is mad science at it\'s finest!
They want to take stem cells from the glowing pigs, and implant them into another pig, to be able to observe how they grow without needing to turn it into ham and bacon. They're banking that a better understanding of how stem cells work in pigs will lead to a better understanding of how they would work in humans. And since stem cells are the biggest buzz word in medical tech right now, if you understand them better, people will pay you lots of money to figure out actual practical uses for the things.
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January 17th, 2006, 06:46 PM
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Re: This is mad science at it\'s finest!
Stem cells could be great. Well actually they are great, when you start life(ish) as a bundle of cells, they're the cells you consist of. Cells that can grow into anything are of course very usefull. Need a new leg? Grow/clone some new stem cells from yourself and use them to grow a new, genetically identical, leg.
The problem, as it always is, is making that actually happen. You don't need to figure out the practical use of stem cells, we know what we want to use them for, we just can't do it. Hence the research.
But still, glowing pigs! Do you need a reason to meddle with nature when the results are this good? 
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January 17th, 2006, 09:10 PM
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Re: This is mad science at it\'s finest!
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But still, glowing pigs! Do you need a reason to meddle with nature when the results are this good?
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January 17th, 2006, 10:13 PM
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Re: This is mad science at it\'s finest!
Or what about when they start flying???>.................
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January 18th, 2006, 11:27 PM
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Re: This is mad science at it\'s finest!
Anal probes aside, glowing pigs...don't you wish you glowed in the dark? I do! Only I wanna glow blue, not green. Blue'd be so much...better.
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Re: This is mad science at it\'s finest!
Having a glowing body might be useful sometimes but I want to be able to turn it on and off.  |
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