First Cloned Cat Sold

[GT98]

For $50K

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&e=2&u=/ap/cloned_cat

[az]

Unethical and stupid. We aren't god. Death is a part of life; we should accept that. And no clone is going to be the same as the original creature, nor should creatures be created just as a replacement for lost ones.

AZ

[VJ]

I first thought this was about the 'anti-allergy cats'. They are working on genetically modifying cats so that people with cat allergies wouldn't be allergic to them.

But this is indeed stupid...


Jörg

[dZeus]

Originally posted by az
Unethical and stupid. We aren't god. Death is a part of life; we should accept that. And no clone is going to be the same as the original creature, nor should creatures be created just as a replacement for lost ones.

AZ

I don't think it's unethical, but it definitely is stupid
All because people think that identical genes result into identical behaviour..

[Dr Mordrid]

Shows our ever increasing belief that appearance is everything

Dr. Mordrid

[Brian R.]

Reminds me of that Stephen King novel about people and animals coming back if they're buried in the right spot. But they're different. Pet Semetary?

[VJ]

Yep, pet semetary...


Jörg

[windigo]

awesome soon people will be cloned!

[Paddy]

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sorryq

[KvHagedorn]

If one of us was cloned it would not be us. Souls are unique. I can't imagine why people are shallow enough to think they are really getting their kitty back. I would rather have kitty have children and have the offspring.

[Sasq]

The cat - sad, very sad sad woman.

What really interests me about cloning, is the ability to replace parts - no I am not talking about growing full bodies and harvesting, I would be most interested to see a way to grow individual parts.

Just for a quick example, I normal happy healthy 3yo get hit with the flu, it triggers type 1 diabeties.
take a cell sample (bone marrow and stem cells anyone), maybe tweak the dna if possible so the new pancreas is not so suceptable to to failure, grow a new pancreas in vat, or maybe even inside the child?? implant. no regection, no costly drugs and the child can have a normal childhood.

This is the sort of thing I would love to see cloning being used for - to improve the quality of life for those living, not to bring back the dead or create super humans.

[az]

I am 100% with sasq. Make that 200%, half of which cloned

AZ

[Brian R.]

Now, all I can think of is the Ramones - "I don't want to be buried in a pet semetary".

[windigo]

why is it considered unethical? sooner or later a human will be cloned mainly because people have more money than what they know what to do with.
so open the flood gates clone everyone and their pets

[KvHagedorn]

Well, the world will only ever be ruled by money, unfortunately. So rich fools get genetic copies of their pets while poor people who need organs will die. We are a sad bunch.