[HN Gopher] Viable offspring derived from single unfertilized ma... ___________________________________________________________________ Viable offspring derived from single unfertilized mammalian oocytes Author : birriel Score : 40 points Date : 2023-06-01 17:36 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.pnas.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.pnas.org) | rf15 wrote: | Isn't this kind of research illegal? Because the results usually | are. (I say as someone who used to own marbled crayfish[1]) | | [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbled_crayfish | jacquesm wrote: | Interesting, they forbid to 'breed' it but that's apparently | not really how it works for these particular animals. A single | individual will be happy to reproduce without any breeding | taking place and there isn't much that you could do to stop it | short of killing the creature. | RicoElectrico wrote: | But is it because of the origin, or rather the invasive species | status? | Bang2Bay wrote: | f*k... Oh. we dont have to any more. :) | 082349872349872 wrote: | In _Brave New World_ , they don't have to fuck, yet find plenty | of opportunity to do so anyway. (and we are told this is | somehow a dystopia?) | | Lagniappe: "cloning can be worthwhile" | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMkjoQ6S7oQ | l1n wrote: | in mice. | fallingfrog wrote: | I hope! | RobotToaster wrote: | Next, dinosaurs. | Idiot_in_Vain wrote: | Dinos are a few orders of magnitude harder. No DNA or RNA | fragment can even remotely survive over 65M years. To make | something similar to a dino researchers will have to produce | a working mix of bird and reptilian DNA - which is enormously | complicated. | bpodgursky wrote: | This is a case where there's not a super compelling reason to | believe it would fail in other mammals. | JeanSebTr wrote: | that's the kind of news I expect to be in mice and not in | humans ;) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-06-01 23:01 UTC)