cloning

Well, you just know they're bound to clone velociraptors from DNA in amber sometime. And when (not if) they eat you, who's going to take care of your beloved pets?

All the Thunderbird was was a giant condor. Condors aren't extinct so why couldn't DNA from the extinct bird be mixed with the DNA of a living Condor?

I am a layman in all respects and i am confused a little by certain evolutionary theories. We know that once there were mammals that devolved back into fish and that fossil records are based on skeletons and not necessarily biological processes. So i wanted to know what a clone was. Are...

Despite having decent writing skills, I have not yet written a book. I'm awful at coming up with workable plots, especially endings. After much thought and note-making, though, I think I may have come up with a good idea, at last. I am, however, a little lacking in certain areas of scientific...

"WASHINGTON - Regulatory approval could catalyze the nascent U.S. cloning industry, but leading firms say growth would come slowly as they battle to win consumers over to the concept of food from cloned animals." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22593574/ A) Would you eat meat or drink milk from a...

I've separated this out from the original thread because it's somewhat off-track. Bujin has said that we shouldn't consider cloning extinct creatures, because they are supposed to be extinct. Cuddles has extended the argument to include creatures that aren't extinct yet, and suggested that this...

I was reading a scientific essay online when I read that the Neanderthal genome had been created. It was going to be possible sometime in the future to clone them. Is this ethical? How far along is this research? Is it possible to clone Mammoths or Mastadons? I was watching a show about the...

I remember back in 2003 some cult claiming they cloned a baby or two. Most people have dismissed it as fake. However, while not a believer in the occult, was there ever any conclusive evidence to actually confirm or deny the claim? INRM

I was watching the news today. It seems that the US government has decided that after years of research the meat (as well as eggs, milk ect) from cloned animals is every bit as safe as that from non-cloned animals. The science behind the report (from what I was able to read) seems pretty...

I was wondering why exactly we don't attempt to clone the Neanderthal. We have DNA samples and we likely have the ability to clone them. So why not? It would be a great chance to study one of our relatives/ancestors close up in person. A chance to see exactly how intelligent Neanderthals were...

Charles Johnson over at Little Green Footballs noticed something a bit odd in a Reuters' photograph this weekend: The questioned image, taken by Lebanese freelance photographer Adnan Hajj, depicts a quite obviously cloned photo showing smoke rising from Israeli air-strikes on Beirut. Hajj is...

Hi - I'm sure this has been discussed plenty of times before - but my search didn't provide exactly what I was looking for. While I am for the cloning for most everything (body parts, animals, etc) I am hessitant to be for human cloning. I am not sure why. I don't think there is anything...

Reuters Article "A deeply divided U.N. General Assembly committee adopted a nonbinding statement on Friday calling on governments to prohibit all forms of human cloning, including techniques used in research on human stem cells." Not a good day :(

just wondering what the skeptics thoughts are on this http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20041223001009990002 I am just curious.

I'd prefer to shuck off my mortal coil when the time is right. It's aready possible to have pig lungs etc. inserted to prolong life. I might find it amusing to have a curly pig's willy for a minute or two but , on reflection, I'd be unable to accept organs from a presumably conscious being...

Haha, nothing like an inflammatory subject line to attract attention. Seriously, though, New Scientist just ran an article about how research needs to focus on perfecting the cloning of organs and various tissue types. I don't think it's really necessary for me to list the benefits, but I'm...

From Yahoo and E! Online: It's hard to tell whether the cloning claims are being taken seriously or not. One suspects that the Clonaid folks must know that introducing Rodney to a baby and saying that the baby is a clone proves nothing. The Clonaid folks must also be aware that a clone of a...

Somewhere in the Bible there is mention of the 'red hefier' and how it is tied up with the messiah. I heard today that there are groups planning to try to geneticaly create the red hefier to bring the Messiah. My question for the R&P forum. Isn't this cheating? Would not god be the one to...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=514&e=7&u=/ap/20030410/ap_on_sc/cloning_failures_2 I wonder if the Rialians know this....

Much of the debate over reproductive cloning, of which Dolly was the most notable example, has been over the moral and ethical reprecussions if this technology is applied to humans. It should be remembered that there's some interesting stuff happening using transgenic animals. The use of...