Mixing human and animal DNA

[Dali]

No.

Some things should remain sacred.

 

[Lookin4theBestNU]

It makes me think of this:
Rat monster

 

[Prototype]

Why not?... We're stupid enough to do it!

 

[sade]

Sure, that sounds interesting.
Besides we're already going to that kind of direction, by using plasmids from bacteria and viral vectors (at least studying their uses).. If it'll improve the quality of life or health or has some other benificial uses, then why not?

 

[The Ü™]

Wouldn't it be cool if I were a marsupial?

 

[Jack Flak]

Island of Doctor Moreau, anyone? BAD IDEA

 

[Lateralus]

That would be awesome! Maybe we could make a manbearpig.

 

[iwakar]

Island of Doctor Moreau, anyone? BAD IDEA

I second this.

 

[Virtual ghost]

Question for all people who said : NO.

Why are you against this?

 

[Venom]

Street Sharks, Extreme Dinosaurs...

STREET SHARKS!!!

i feel like i have just awoken from amnesia! I LOVED MY STREET SHARKS ACTION FIGURE!!! which is strange, because i never actaully saw the show, i just wanted the toy when i saw it hahaha. how i remember all this, i have no idea

 

[Kasper]

Pigmen?

 

[iamWong]

No.

Some things should remain sacred.

I second that.

 

[htb]

Street Sharks, Extreme Dinosaurs...

[Visions of Pumyra and Cheetara race through her head] Wait - I take back my earlier objection.

Make them in the lab, set them "on the loose." Problems with undead super-villains? Over.

 

[Hexis]

Where do I sign up?!

 

[Nocapszy]

Aw gawd people, why???? Why????

Go play a video game or something.

On second thought -- don't.

They actually have that game...

Look it up. It's called spore.

 

[PuddleRiver]

No, just no.

what she said x 1000.

 

[nonsequitur]

How could anyone take this question seriously?

In the lab, we mix bacterial DNA with um, DNA from most species including human DNA. It's called cloning and recombinant DNA technology. Insulin is mass-produced from a human/bacterial DNA hybrid.

Regular molecular biology utilises hybrids to study the properties of proteins. I have colleagues who work on linking GFP (green fluorescent protein, from jellyfish) to human proteins within bacterial cells to study their localisation. It's been done for decades. That doesn't mean that a jellyfish/human hybrid will be born, it's completely ludicrous.

 

[sade]

How could anyone take this question seriously?

In the lab, we mix bacterial DNA with um, DNA from most species including human DNA. It's called cloning and recombinant DNA technology. Insulin is mass-produced from a human/bacterial DNA hybrid.

Regular molecular biology utilises hybrids to study the properties of proteins. I have colleagues who work on linking GFP (green fluorescent protein, from jellyfish) to human proteins within bacterial cells to study their localisation. It's been done for decades. That doesn't mean that a jellyfish/human hybrid will be born, it's completely ludicrous.

... Now you spoiled all the fun.
But seriously, sometimes I wonder how some seem to think that making human-animal hybrids is the goal or other crazy experiments, when what you stated holds the thruth. It's a shame that having some basics of molechular biology isn't mandatory in schools. (To atleast give some insight..)

 

[Bella]

May I never see the day......