What happened to cloning?

[dumpthemonarchy]

This subject hasn't been in the news much for the last little while. Here's an organization that supports cloning.

I really dislike the idea of cloning animals because the natural way is better, because a copy of a copy weakens the species, Dolly died pretty fast. Farmers wanted it because it makes them more money. Ugh.

It could be possible to clone Neanderthal. Could make better athletes.


The Top Ten Myths about Human Cloning

 

[karrie]

Farmers wanted it because it makes them more money. Ugh.

Which farmers? How does it make more money? Everything I'd read said that it was an exercise in looking to see if we could do it, but that it was too pricey and time consuming to engage in on a regular basis. I never saw a single article beyond speculative science saying that farmers would want anything to do with it, or find it profitable in any way.

 

[petros]

Ask that half Jew Raelian moonbeam Jean Claude and that 2 bit hosebag of a wife who claim they made a clone in Israel.

 

[petros]

Which farmers? How does it make more money? Everything I'd read said that it was an exercise in looking to see if we could do it, but that it was too pricey and time consuming to engage in on a regular basis. I never saw a single article beyond speculative science saying that farmers would want anything to do with it, or find it profitable in any way.

Todays farm animals are far too genetically unstable to be cloned successfully. It's like how dog breeding can go haywire and you get litter after litter of cripples.

 

[petros]

Ask that half Jew Raelian moonbeam Jean Claude and that 2 bit hosebag of a wife who claim they made a clone in Israel.

Clonaid.com: News

“Human cloning is still making headlines six years after the birth of the first clone child,” Boisselier (the 2 bit hosebag) added. “But even if the media still present it as being too controversial, the public is much less afraid of it than it was initially. People have gotten used to the idea to the point where many see it as highly desirable. ”

She said that although the Clonaid team has received cloning requests from around the world, a surprisingly large number come from the Los Angeles/Hollywood area.

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

Which farmers? How does it make more money? Everything I'd read said that it was an exercise in looking to see if we could do it, but that it was too pricey and time consuming to engage in on a regular basis. I never saw a single article beyond speculative science saying that farmers would want anything to do with it, or find it profitable in any way.

I punched in cloning farming into google and found this. Farmers clone now. I didn't even know that. I remember reading years ago that the Taiwanese think human cloning has already begun.

Read more: Cloning - used, body, Dairy Farmers Use Cloning Techniques http://www.discoveriesinmedicine.com/Bar-Cod/Cloning.html#ixzz0oLmF4boa

Dairy Farmers Use Cloning Techniques

As an example of cloning techniques, dairy fanners trying to clone a cow with high milk-producing qualities begin by artificially inseminating a high-producing cow with the sperm from a prize bull. The resulting embryo, which contains the entire genetic instructions needed to form a complete calf, develops within its mother. After some time, the embryo divides into a mass of 32 identical cells. The embryo is then carefully removed from the mother cow and separated into 32 separate cells. Finally, after microsurgery on the cells, each new embryo is transplanted into 32 different carrier cows, where it develops fully.

After a normal pregnancy, each carrier cow gives birth to a calf that is genetically identical to the 31 other calves derived from the original 32 cell embryo. Each calf is a clone. The trait for increased milk production has been cloned so that the farmer now has 32 high milk-producing cows instead of just one. Cloning technology has enabled breeders to develop lines of cattle, sheep, and cotton plants that respectively produce more milk, wool, and cotton.

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[dumpthemonarchy]

Todays farm animals are far too genetically unstable to be cloned successfully. It's like how dog breeding can go haywire and you get litter after litter of cripples.

Dog inbreeding I was told by an expert is breeding a grandmother and a grandson. Or a brother and sister. All superyuck of course and that makes for some sicko beasts. It's not very scientific, but its very rude.

 

[The Old Medic]

Cloning is far too expensive to be practical. It is a wonderful thing to display what science can do, but it is not practical for farming or for any other industry.

You might say that it is a great showpiece, but nothing more than that.

 

[Ron in Regina]

 

[Sаbine]

Cloning is far too expensive to be practical. It is a wonderful thing to display what science can do, but it is not practical for farming or for any other industry.

You might say that it is a great showpiece, but nothing more than that.

Today, animal cloning is one of the most important and critical areas of modern biotechnology. It's almost entirely focused on cloning organs for transplants and sources for stem cells.

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

Cloning is far too expensive to be practical. It is a wonderful thing to display what science can do, but it is not practical for farming or for any other industry.

You might say that it is a great showpiece, but nothing more than that.

I remember reading about cloned frogs in the 1980s and they said larger beasts are much too difficult. Yet it happened for sheep and cows.