[HN Gopher] Viable offspring derived from single unfertilized ma...
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       Viable offspring derived from single unfertilized mammalian oocytes
        
       Author : birriel
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2023-06-01 17:36 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | 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 ;)
        
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