South Koreans successfully clone dog

[Gryph]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050803/ap_on_...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Researchers nicknamed their cloned pal Snuppy, which is shorthand for "Seoul National University puppy." One of the dog's co-creators, Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, describes their creation, now 14 weeks old, as "a frisky, healthy, normal, rambunctious puppy.

Researchers congratulated the Korean team on improving techniques that might someday be medically useful. Others, including the cloner of Dolly the sheep, renewed their demand for a worldwide ban on human reproductive cloning.

 

"Successful cloning of an increasing number of species confirms the general impression that it would be possible to clone any mammalian species, including humans," said Ian Wilmut, a reproductive biologist at the University of Edinburgh, who produced Dolly nearly a decade ago.

 

Since then, researchers have cloned cats, goats, cows, mice, pigs, rabbits, horses, deer, mules and gaur, a large wild ox of Southeast Asia. Uncertainties about the health and life span of cloned animals persist; Dolly died prematurely in 2003 after developing cancer and arthritis.

 

"The ability to use the underlying technology in developing research models and eventually therapies is incredibly promising," said Robert Schenken, president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. "However, the paper also points out that in dogs as in most species, cloning for reproductive purposes is unsafe.""

I could make a Korean dog cuisine joke but I won't.

[Wizard]

Heck yeah. I'd pay all the money in the world to get my self cloned.

[Weirdy]

I almost thought this thread title said "north koreans"

 

I was thinking "holy fuuck, they can clone?!"

 

that would suck if they cloned Kim Jong Il

Edited August 3, 2005 by Weirdy

[Gryph]

He could use a clone of himself because he's so ronery and sadry arone.

 

But I changed the topic title to reflect that it was the South Koreans.

[Weirdy]

He could use a clone of himself because he's so ronery and sadry arone.

 

I So ronery

So ronery

So ronery and sadry arone.

Theres no-one

Just me onry

Sitting on my rittow throne

I work vely hard and make up great prans

But nobody listens no-one understands

Seems like no-one takes me seriousrryyyy

And so I'm ronery

I've been a ronery

Poor rittow me

 

There's nobody I can rerate to

Feel rike a bird in a cage

It's kinda sirry

But not reary

Cos its filling my body with rage

I'm the smartest most crever most physicarry fit

But nobody else seems to rearise it

When I change the world maybe they'll notice me

 

But until then

I'll just be ronery

Yeah a rittle ronery

Poor rittow me

 

I..... so.... ronery........

 

tell me if this link works

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050802/od_nm/...DRpBHNlYwM3NTc-

Edited August 3, 2005 by Weirdy

[Gryph]

Nope, doesn't work.

[Weirdy]

fuuck!

 

it's cause the broswer translates some of the words to other characters

[Madi]

They should name it "Dinner" and the next one "Dessert"

[suvo]

i want to make another me ! so that i can get another high poster

[i l l m a t i c]

i want to make another me ! so that i can get another high poster

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I dunno if I could stand with two of you around

[suvo]

i want to make another me ! so that i can get another high poster

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I dunno if I could stand with two of you around

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i could say the same