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evilkoal

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did you guys hear?

 

they successfully mixed human and bovine DNA together :D

 

but culturing them for more than 14 days is illegal, and the cells are 99.9% human.

the fact that it is illegal for them to birth the embryos is completely ridiculous, but this isnt about that.

 

i dont understand why they just dont use chimpanzee eggs, instead of cow; i guess there are more cows than chimps though :)

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i dont understand why they just dont use chimpanzee eggs, instead of cow; i guess there are more cows than chimps though :)

And the fact that chimps and humans share 98% of DNA, so there really isn't any point.

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That isn't engineering; it's medical research. Please can thread to be dying now?

What?

Bad grammar much?

 

Besides, it may not be engineering, but it is definitely some sort of predecessory research.

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well, i would figure that putting a human cell nucleus into a bovine egg would count as engineering since it does not happen naturally...
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well, i would figure that putting a human cell nucleus into a bovine egg would count as engineering since it does not happen naturally...

There's a difference between experimentation and engineering. They did that to see what would happen, not for some set goal. They weren't trying to make anything for anyone.

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Indeed, engineering is very different from experimentation . In experimentation, you're trying to figure out what happens and make a few predictions based on what you know. In engineering, you already know everything that can happen and try and find a solution within those boundaries.

 

Anyways, I was thinking to myself:

Bamboo, which is actually a grass BTW, grows a meter a day. If you could put the gene for that sort of growth into, say, a pine tree........They'd grow so fast we'd have no choice but to clearcut!

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