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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 3:34 pm Post subject: Does this say anything about Korean society? |
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S. Korean lab successfully clones dead dog
Yonhap News (May 21, 2008)
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/techscience/2008/05/21/9/0601000000AEN20080521009300320F.HTML
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A South Korean bio-engineering team led by cloning expert Hwang Woo-suk said Wednesday that it has successfully made three genetically identical copies of a dog that died in 2002.
The feat by Sooam Biotech Research Foundation marks the first time that a dead dog has been cloned....
A source at Sooam said tissue from Missy was cultivated and injected into the ova of ordinary dogs. They added that Hwang played a direct role in the selection of the ova and the complex cell fusion process....
Sooam claimed that advances in the past few years have increased the success rate of dog cloning, and that research reports have been submitted to an international journal for review....
Hwang, a former veterinary professor at Seoul National University, was in charge of a group of scientists that made the world's first cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005. He, however, was disgraced when his 2004 report on human stem-cell development was shown to be based on fabricated data. |
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ytuque
Joined: 29 Jan 2008
Location: I drink therefore I am!
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| Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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| With this development, they can eat the same dog over and over again..... |
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ryouga013
Joined: 14 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| I think this was more of a comment about people believing anyone that has or had any status. This guy lies to everybody, then is given a head position in a place that is dealing with the same stuff he had problems with... |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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the three animals were clones of Missy, a pet belonging to John Sperling, who is the founder of Genetic Savings and Clone and the chairman of the Apollo Group. The billionaire had asked several labs to clone Missy -- a collie and husky mix -- but all had failed.
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I think it says something about a billionaire named John Sperling.
Were you thinking of something specific it said about Korea? |
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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| ryouga013 wrote: |
| I think this was more of a comment about people believing anyone that has or had any status. This guy lies to everybody, then is given a head position in a place that is dealing with the same stuff he had problems with... |
He's doing all this cloning pets baloney, so he can get foreign investors to fund his lab for the work he lied about before. He wants to prove he wasn't lying, but he needs foreign investors first.
Rots o ruck, raggy. |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 1:06 am Post subject: |
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| Awesome...can't wait for the first "RePet" shop to open. |
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aka Dave
Joined: 02 May 2008
Location: Down by the river
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| Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 6:38 am Post subject: |
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| ytuque wrote: |
| With this development, they can eat the same dog over and over again..... |
And who will stop them? Their power will know no bounds! |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 7:05 am Post subject: |
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| I believe the scientist in question knows his science, but he cut some corners and got caught before. In this case, he may what he produced was legitimate. A billionaire seeking clones of a dog he loved is focusing on being attached to a form. The dog is gone. He could use that money to help people in Burma or somewhere else. Certainly, I would be sad to lose my dog, but I would focus on being grateful for having had such a canine friend and either helping other canines or helping people. What he did was not productive. |
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SOOHWA101
Joined: 04 Mar 2006
Location: Makin moves...trying to find 24pyung
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anyway
Joined: 22 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 7:54 am Post subject: |
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Nothing screams 'DY-NAM-ICK' like cloning dead dogs.
Can't wait to see how they work that into their tourism adverts. |
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Justin Kimberlake
Joined: 20 May 2008
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| Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 11:31 am Post subject: |
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Nothing screams 'DY-NAM-ICK' like cloning dead dogs.
Can't wait to see how they work that into their tourism adverts. |
He won't clone squat. He'll just buy a dog of the same breed and pass those off to owners as their "Fido."
Like when your hamster died while you were at school and your mom ran to the pet store to replace him. It's been a family sit-com staple for decades. |
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amo_jh
Joined: 21 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Justin Kimberlake wrote: |
| anyway wrote: |
Nothing screams 'DY-NAM-ICK' like cloning dead dogs.
Can't wait to see how they work that into their tourism adverts. |
He won't clone squat. He'll just buy a dog of the same breed and pass those off to owners as their "Fido."
Like when your hamster died while you were at school and your mom ran to the pet store to replace him. It's been a family sit-com staple for decades. |
did you even read the article? it says the dogs were verified to be identical by a lab in the states |
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it's full of stars
Joined: 26 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, verified. Right. A few bucks in the right pocket and they'd say you were the dog. |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 5:05 pm Post subject: |
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Gives new meaning to the word copycat, no wait.  |
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Whistleblower
Joined: 03 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Every dog has it's day. |
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