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Practical Uses for Cloning
Topic Started: May 9 2009, 09:55 AM (1,363 Views)
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There are plenty of beneficial and fun uses for genetic modification, like creating pet dinosaurs from chickens and adding fluerescent genes to a zebra danio, now this wasn't discussed as much - cloning.

Personally, other than for research purposes, I don't think there are many practical uses for cloning. But what can be practical uses of cloning?

EDIT: Actually, now that I thought about it, there are practical uses for cloning. For example, we could make meat by taking a stem cell and turning it into a certain edible part of an animal. Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_meat
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Ever eaten a banana? They're all clones.
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Of course they're clones. But here this is a futuristic setting where there are great advances in biotechnology.
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Create organs that the body won't reject, in theory.
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1) Saving endangered AND extinct species
2) Growing organs that won't be rejected and won't have to wait on a long line to get

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Well, I'm sick, so I might post pointless threads like this as my brain is numbed due to illness. Why did I forget about the two reasons you listed?

Now, for cloning an endangered animal to be successful, you are going to need an embryonic stem cell rather than an adult one for best results.
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Maybe not, there has been research in coverting cells back to an embryonic stem cell state. So there COULD be a way around it.
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There's that, but that has been achieved by slipping in genes into a skin cell to turn it into a stem cell. There was, I think, some success with turning the stem cells from skin cells into neural cells, but to create a clonal organism from a converted cell, you need to remove the genes that cause it to transform into a skin cell so that it can grow into another organism without possible problems. But I do not know what those problems are.
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I am personally interested in the 'In-Vitro Meat' scene myself, but this has to do with my having gone to culinary school for half a year. Not only would that help ease up on the population of living animals, but would also grant access to different KINDS of meat, that were hard to get originally. Can you imagine getting Water buffalo at the meat counter? Or Giraffe? Even extinct animals wouldn't be out of the question. *Is allready imagining a 'caveman night' where the special of the day is Mammoth roast.*
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And with in-vitro meat, it would also get PETA to shut up. :D
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And with in-vitro meat, it would also get PETA to shut up. :D
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Well no animals were killed in the growing of chicken breast meat in a petri dish and yet we could still have our meat we crave.
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And with in-vitro meat, it would also get PETA to shut up. :D
no it wouldn't
Didn't they already come out in favor of it?

Honestly, I'm excited about it, too. Think about it, right now Astronauts are pretty much stuck with veggie foods and soy if they were going to grow their own food, or, right now, chemical substitutes and long term frozen food that almost lacks all taste. With Smeat we can have long-term space missions with a happy crew. That, and we could grow meat at home, like a garden, which i think would be pretty cool.
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And with in-vitro meat, it would also get PETA to shut up. :D
no it wouldn't
Didn't they already come out in favor of it?

Honestly, I'm excited about it, too. Think about it, right now Astronauts are pretty much stuck with veggie foods and soy if they were going to grow their own food, or, right now, chemical substitutes and long term frozen food that almost lacks all taste. With Smeat we can have long-term space missions with a happy crew. That, and we could grow meat at home, like a garden, which i think would be pretty cool.
I believe they did. They are even offering a million-dollar "X-prize" to the first group to successfully grow in-vitro meat.
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