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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Puppy Clones?!? Hmmm...
PUPPY CLONES? GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE...
Biotech firm offers to reproduce dogs for 5 highest bidders
by Associated Press
updated 12:45 p.m. ET May 22, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO - A Northern California biotech company announced Wednesday that it will clone dogs for the five highest bidders in a series of online auctions. Some ethicists condemned the offer, fearing it could lead to human clones.
Opening bids start at $100,000 for the service being offered by Mill Valley-based BioArts International. The cloning process is to be performed by a South Korean scientist who suffered international disgrace after being found to have faked research.
BioArts chief executive Lou Hawthorne formerly ran Genetic Savings & Clone, which offered to clone pet cats for $50,000 but folded in 2006 because few were willing to pay so much.
But Hawthorne said in a phone interview that another service his old company provided — the storage of pet DNA for future possible clones — showed him the market for dog clones was strong.
"The average dog owner has a different relationship with his dog than the average cat owner," Hawthorne said. "The level of intensity on the dog side just dwarfed what we saw on the cat side."
To conduct the clonings, BioArts has partnered with a South Korean research team that recently created three clones of Hawthorne's family dog, Missy, who died in 2002.
The team was led by Hwang Woo-suk, who scandalized the international scientific community in 2005 when his breakthrough human cloning research involving embryonic stem cells was found to have been faked.
Tests performed at the University of California, Davis' Veterinary Genetics Laboratory found that DNA samples taken from Missy and the three other dogs appeared to belong to the same individual.
Hawthorne said that after spending 15 years with Missy, he is taking pleasure in seeing her mischievous streak coming out in her clones. They also like steamed broccoli just like she did, he said.
WOULD YOU PAY TO CLONE YOUR PET?
Some groups that monitor advances in genetic technology argue that the company's project, called Best Friends Again, could serve as a gateway to more unsavory practices.
"Many people consider pets to be part of our families," Marcy Darnovsky, associate director of the Oakland-based Center for Genetics and Society, said in a statement. "If we get used to cute cloned puppies, will some people expect cute cloned babies next?"
WARY OF WORKING WITH HWANG
Critics also have lambasted the project for its association with Hwang. Earlier this month, a researcher close to Hwang told The Associated Press that the scientist, who went into seclusion after the deception was exposed, had established a pet-cloning company in Seoul.
Hawthorne said he was wary of working with Hwang at first but said the Korean scientist had assembled the best technology and talent available. All of Hwang's results connected to dog cloning have been independently verified, Hawthorne said.
BioArts said in a statement it has been granted the sole license for cloning dogs, cats and endangered species using patented processes developed for the cloning of Dolly the sheep, the first successfully cloned animal.
Groups critical of the dog-cloning effort also say the process is cruel, arguing that hundreds of failures are typical before one mammal is successfully cloned.
But BioArts found that dogs are much less likely to miscarry or give birth to malformed offspring during the cloning process than other animals, Hawthorne said.
"If everything isn't perfect, it doesn't work at all," he said. "With other species, their reproductive systems are more tolerant of error."
The auctions are scheduled to begin June 18.
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COOL huh?!? Hehehe :p
I'll have lots and lots of puppies!!! Doggies!!! :p
Love love love DOGGIESSSSS!!! Ahihihi :p
I'm a Certified Dog Lovahhh!!! :p
XOXO!!! :p
Biotech firm offers to reproduce dogs for 5 highest bidders
by Associated Press
updated 12:45 p.m. ET May 22, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO - A Northern California biotech company announced Wednesday that it will clone dogs for the five highest bidders in a series of online auctions. Some ethicists condemned the offer, fearing it could lead to human clones.
Opening bids start at $100,000 for the service being offered by Mill Valley-based BioArts International. The cloning process is to be performed by a South Korean scientist who suffered international disgrace after being found to have faked research.
BioArts chief executive Lou Hawthorne formerly ran Genetic Savings & Clone, which offered to clone pet cats for $50,000 but folded in 2006 because few were willing to pay so much.
But Hawthorne said in a phone interview that another service his old company provided — the storage of pet DNA for future possible clones — showed him the market for dog clones was strong.
"The average dog owner has a different relationship with his dog than the average cat owner," Hawthorne said. "The level of intensity on the dog side just dwarfed what we saw on the cat side."
To conduct the clonings, BioArts has partnered with a South Korean research team that recently created three clones of Hawthorne's family dog, Missy, who died in 2002.
The team was led by Hwang Woo-suk, who scandalized the international scientific community in 2005 when his breakthrough human cloning research involving embryonic stem cells was found to have been faked.
Tests performed at the University of California, Davis' Veterinary Genetics Laboratory found that DNA samples taken from Missy and the three other dogs appeared to belong to the same individual.
Hawthorne said that after spending 15 years with Missy, he is taking pleasure in seeing her mischievous streak coming out in her clones. They also like steamed broccoli just like she did, he said.
WOULD YOU PAY TO CLONE YOUR PET?
Some groups that monitor advances in genetic technology argue that the company's project, called Best Friends Again, could serve as a gateway to more unsavory practices.
"Many people consider pets to be part of our families," Marcy Darnovsky, associate director of the Oakland-based Center for Genetics and Society, said in a statement. "If we get used to cute cloned puppies, will some people expect cute cloned babies next?"
WARY OF WORKING WITH HWANG
Critics also have lambasted the project for its association with Hwang. Earlier this month, a researcher close to Hwang told The Associated Press that the scientist, who went into seclusion after the deception was exposed, had established a pet-cloning company in Seoul.
Hawthorne said he was wary of working with Hwang at first but said the Korean scientist had assembled the best technology and talent available. All of Hwang's results connected to dog cloning have been independently verified, Hawthorne said.
BioArts said in a statement it has been granted the sole license for cloning dogs, cats and endangered species using patented processes developed for the cloning of Dolly the sheep, the first successfully cloned animal.
Groups critical of the dog-cloning effort also say the process is cruel, arguing that hundreds of failures are typical before one mammal is successfully cloned.
But BioArts found that dogs are much less likely to miscarry or give birth to malformed offspring during the cloning process than other animals, Hawthorne said.
"If everything isn't perfect, it doesn't work at all," he said. "With other species, their reproductive systems are more tolerant of error."
The auctions are scheduled to begin June 18.
>>>>>.<<<<<
COOL huh?!? Hehehe :p
I'll have lots and lots of puppies!!! Doggies!!! :p
Love love love DOGGIESSSSS!!! Ahihihi :p
I'm a Certified Dog Lovahhh!!! :p
XOXO!!! :p
Blue Emotions
As I was browsing along my Multiply site, I got to go through the blogs I have posted there. This blog site wasn't up yet at that time, so I did my blogging there. I rarely do blogs before that's why I only posted a few of them there. Here's one I found rather interesting... (I didn't know I could verse well y'all!!! Hehehe :p) I wrote this blog around Christmas time last year I think...
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"Blue Emotions"
Why is it that, whenever I say something about what I feel about something or someone, it always turns out to be something I'll regret saying afterwards... I can't understand why... I keep on telling people that... I'm not affected, I don't feel anything about a certain thing or a certain person... But in the latter, I'll realize, maybe I still feel something deep inside me... Whether it may be little or actually feeling something more than I know of per say... It's just so hard for me to have all this mix emotions, mix feelings inside me... I don't want this to retain inside of me forever because I might never know when all of a sudden I'll breakdown from all this...
Questions bewildering my thoughts... Why does it still hurt even if I control and prevent myself not to feel that way... Why do I allow myself to be a prisoner of all these thoughts and feelings... Why are these things inside my mind, inside my heart... Why can't these 'Blue Emotions' leave me be... Why can't I just live peacefully every single day, with a clear mind and an unscarred heart... Why can't I just wake up every single morning, my mind and heart as a blank slate, and run my day as smoothly as it can be, without anything to think about, no hurt to feel... Why must I be the only one suffering from all of this... Does this even make me a smarter, stronger and a lot independent person amongst all others...
Lord... Why did you grant me this heart... A heart that can love and care for all people, no matter who they are, and never seem to get to hate anyone even if they've done me wrong so many times... A heart that can easily break, be scarred, be torned, be shattered into bits and pieces but can always forgive the person who made my heart suffer... A heart that only knows how to love and never hate... A heart that's strong as it may seem, but in reality weak in so many ways... Why me, why this heart... I ask this question not because I'm questioning how you made me to be, or because I'm regretting why I'm like this, I dare ask this because I want to make something clear to myself, that there are valuable reasons why I am the way I am... Why I feel the way I feel... Why I think the way I think... Why I live the way I live...
*sigh*... Maybe I know all the answers to these questions... Maybe right now, I'm just blinded by how miserable life is to me... Life hasn't been good to me lately... For quite some time it hasn't... I guess I just make up the illusion that my life is perfect, my life is happy... Magician as I may seem to be, I only know how to make illusions, not real magic...
I guess... I just have to roll with the punches... Yet again... Cause' if I don't, I am sure bound to get knocked over...
This is how strong my personality is... I even scare myself for being this strong... I'm strong not because I want to be, but because I have to... Or else... My life would end up, as black as the night sky in December evenings...
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MUY BIEN HUH?!? :p Hehehe :D
XOXO!!! :p
~*~.~*~
"Blue Emotions"
Why is it that, whenever I say something about what I feel about something or someone, it always turns out to be something I'll regret saying afterwards... I can't understand why... I keep on telling people that... I'm not affected, I don't feel anything about a certain thing or a certain person... But in the latter, I'll realize, maybe I still feel something deep inside me... Whether it may be little or actually feeling something more than I know of per say... It's just so hard for me to have all this mix emotions, mix feelings inside me... I don't want this to retain inside of me forever because I might never know when all of a sudden I'll breakdown from all this...
Questions bewildering my thoughts... Why does it still hurt even if I control and prevent myself not to feel that way... Why do I allow myself to be a prisoner of all these thoughts and feelings... Why are these things inside my mind, inside my heart... Why can't these 'Blue Emotions' leave me be... Why can't I just live peacefully every single day, with a clear mind and an unscarred heart... Why can't I just wake up every single morning, my mind and heart as a blank slate, and run my day as smoothly as it can be, without anything to think about, no hurt to feel... Why must I be the only one suffering from all of this... Does this even make me a smarter, stronger and a lot independent person amongst all others...
Lord... Why did you grant me this heart... A heart that can love and care for all people, no matter who they are, and never seem to get to hate anyone even if they've done me wrong so many times... A heart that can easily break, be scarred, be torned, be shattered into bits and pieces but can always forgive the person who made my heart suffer... A heart that only knows how to love and never hate... A heart that's strong as it may seem, but in reality weak in so many ways... Why me, why this heart... I ask this question not because I'm questioning how you made me to be, or because I'm regretting why I'm like this, I dare ask this because I want to make something clear to myself, that there are valuable reasons why I am the way I am... Why I feel the way I feel... Why I think the way I think... Why I live the way I live...
*sigh*... Maybe I know all the answers to these questions... Maybe right now, I'm just blinded by how miserable life is to me... Life hasn't been good to me lately... For quite some time it hasn't... I guess I just make up the illusion that my life is perfect, my life is happy... Magician as I may seem to be, I only know how to make illusions, not real magic...
I guess... I just have to roll with the punches... Yet again... Cause' if I don't, I am sure bound to get knocked over...
This is how strong my personality is... I even scare myself for being this strong... I'm strong not because I want to be, but because I have to... Or else... My life would end up, as black as the night sky in December evenings...
~*~.~*~
MUY BIEN HUH?!? :p Hehehe :D
XOXO!!! :p
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