what has science done! korea develops glowing kittens!

They are cute, but cloning like that is just crazy

 

There are a lot of things that go against nature...

Splitting the atom.
Stem Cell Research.
Abortion.
Walking on the moon.
Cloning.

There are a lot of things that were probably not intended but humans always mess with things they shouldn't be messing with. I can understand some of the things that we have, but what do we need glowing animals for? Absolutely nothing.

It's not like its going to further medical research... If it is I would like to know how. Doctors and Scientists should be coming up with cures for things and not making animals glow.

 

I've read a book about hackers in the future, they've stopped hacking and messing with computer codes, they've moved on to the genetic code.

 

That's so awesome!!! Kitty flashlight!!11!!!!1@!

 

They're just genetically modified animals.

I've read about pigs with jellyfish genes so their noses are fluorescent yellow and other pigs who are modified to not make as much nitrogenous waste. It's the same stuff as genetically engineered crops, only now on animals.

In my opinion, it's good. It's not like they're creating some weird animal hybrid that attacks people or anything.

 

As long as they didn't hurt the kittens or using them to hurt others, then in my opinion it's okay

 

The glowing kittens are harmless compared to what's in store ahead. See this link on fruit flies.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316316,00.html

Are we gay or straight based on how we smell things?

Not sure if I want to know the answer :eusa_doh: .

Sorry, did not get to read the thread on this subject nearby.

http://emptyclosets.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5354

 

You realise after they've finished studying the kittens, they have to kill them. =/

 

What a waste of damn time and energy.

A thoroughly stupid thing to do. Why can't we work on AIDS, Cystic Fibrosis, Motor Neurone Disease or Cerebral Palsy? There are so many diseases which leave human beings in horrible states, and scientists are making glowing kitten-clones. This just reeks of a head scientist's pet-project.

On the positive side... 500th post!

 

Cloning/genetics is wierd. It may very well be this is just testing certain methods of cloning. I'm unclear as to whether the red fluorescence was actually wanted, or just a weird side effect. Also, after following the link to the Korea Times article;

So...It's not entirely pointless, it seems.



Also...,

Heh. I see what you did there...

 

This is where i lose Liberal points. :lol:

I support Medical research for cures. But advancement in science is a disaster waiting to happen.
I support stem cell research (and abortion for that matter but lets not get into that) but i worry that one day it will be used against us or for something not medical.
Like these cats for example:
We don't know if this is harming the "cloned" animal in any way. I mean can clones feel or think? Do we know this as a fact?

Cloning is definitely something i am strongly against. I don't know enough about it, but even if i did, i think that is it something i would have a very very hard time being okay with.

 

oh thats so sick and wrong! poor kitties! there is no reason and benefit from that! of course isn't korea the country that eats abortioned baby brains? maybe that was japan... (check the internet if you don't believe me! i heard adn saw this shown to me from a friend of me sis. but its not for the weak of stomach)

 

I don't mind animal testing, its just the times where its used for trivial purposes like make up and grooming products. I also think cloning is very beneficial and apart from the fact that it decreases variation, its still useful. (to get around this problem, clones shouldn't be allowed to reproduce).

 

Isolating a certain patch of genetic material in one animal and transferring it to another is fantastically useful. We get most of our penicillin from bacteria that has had something similar done to it. However to test their methods of copying the DNA they need to test copying something that is easy to observe, hence the glowing. It is not the end result, but part of the testing.

 

I want to be a geneologist (sp?) and i want to make the first human with wings. Most probably i want it to be me but there is some bugs with that because my DNA is already set and it would be hard to rearrange it now thats all ready like installed and i would most likely have to use a human baby embryo. And he/she will be the first human being that could fly....if it comes ok exactly but i will have to try on smaller creatures first like a mouse...Imagine that a flying mouse

 

I'm surprised no one has complained about it being from fox news...

Anyway, I think making kittens glow is a waste of effort.

 

Japanese scientists recently made partialy seethrough frogs so thay dont have to be disected once they have had the chemichals injected into them so mutch more humane isnt it.....

I think cats are cute enough without being flurecent..... couldent you just paint them?