Comments on: Clone wars casualty

Clone wars casualty

psmealey — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:10:51 -0800

That business plan for 'Re-Pet' may have to wait a bit longer yet.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:13:15 -0800

By: th3ph17

th3ph17 — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:19:07 -0800

weird headline....'cloning pioneer dolly put to death', makes it sound like Dolly was the scientist and has been killed for doing cloning research...subliminal hopeful thinking? ah well. RIP dolly. say hello to Oolong for us.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:20:59 -0800

That business plan for 'Re-Pet' may have to wait a bit longer yet We also would have accepted Goodbye, Dolly, Well Goodbye, Dolly...

By: jeremias

jeremias — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:39:22 -0800

So aside from the early arthritis, unusual lung infection and short lifespan this cloning stuff is basically ok?

By: orange swan

orange swan — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:42:52 -0800

Well, it can provide us with sets of matching lambchops for those really elegant dinner parties.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 10:43:12 -0800

Mutton, honey.

By: Ogre Lawless

Ogre Lawless — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:19:56 -0800

I don't know that the somewhat early demise of Miss Dolly necessarily invalidates current cloning techniques anymore so than the premature death of homo sapiens invalidates current reproductive techniques. I mean, damn -- its one data point.

By: majcher

majcher — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:44:47 -0800

One data point, on research that started, what, five years ago? Surely there's been some progress in technology and process since then? Or have the various bans and restrictions put that much of a damper on research? Damn luddite sensationalism. I want my wendyburgers!

By: RylandDotNet

RylandDotNet — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:58:51 -0800

I mean, damn -- its one data point. But I'm so smart, one data point is all I need to draw my conclusions. RIP, Dolly. Peace and mint jelly be with you.

By: 111

111 — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:03:12 -0800

Yet another weird omen. Goodbye Dolly.

By: Slagman

Slagman — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:18:13 -0800

Well, I don't see how it matters. They can just clone her again.

By: rhyax

rhyax — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:21:25 -0800

These problems wouldn't seem to effect theraputic cloning so much, and it could still be useful for disease treatment, too bad it's illegal.

By: elwoodwiles

elwoodwiles — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 12:27:41 -0800

I'm with Slagman, Dolly 2.0 will own us all. For some reason my brain keeps chanting: "Dolly is dead! Long live Dolly!" on preview: rhyax, it is illegal in America, but I'm sure Monsanto or Imclone or somebody is working on this on some uncharted private island.

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:02:26 -0800

Would I be pelted with offal and scrap building materials if I uttered the dread word 'Newsfilter'? If the FPP had also offered a link to the business plan (or anything else related to) Re-Pet, that might keep it from being a purely a (cutely phrased but misleading) link to a front page story being currently being carried on every news service on the web.

By: majcher

majcher — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:22:16 -0800

This "newsfilter" - is it something that you need the webernets to know about?

By: vraxoin

vraxoin — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:10:09 -0800

She's not dead--she just went on the lamb.

By: jfuller

jfuller — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:36:32 -0800

> I'm sure Monsanto or Imclone or somebody is working on > this on some uncharted private island. This one?

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:13:15 -0800

So what is the appropriate age for a cloned sheep to develop arthritis?

By: malphigian

malphigian — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:43:17 -0800

Isn't this sort of a profound discovery? That somehow all the cells that came from the cloned cell *know* they were already six years old, and the entire body behaves accordingly. How do they know? Some genetic switch? If so, what happens if you turn it off? You guys are thinking small with this cloning stuff, I'm talking some Ponce de Leon shit here.

By: zeoslap

zeoslap — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 08:20:52 -0800

How old do sheep usually live ?

By: zeoslap

zeoslap — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 08:28:05 -0800

Well googling my last question the Dolly death does seem like a big deal. Sheep typically live 10-12 years which is Dollys genetic age. It's also noteworthy that it was know that her telomeres (bits of buffer info on the end of dna that gets chopped with every cell division) were shorter than normal (i.e already as short as a 6 year old sheep) so it seems like yes the cells acted like those of an old sheep from the beginning