Now this is an exotic pet....

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i'll stick to my rats
 
the rest of the article goes on to be much scarier in a pandora's box type of way
 
I don't see how this is "pandora's box". All of you that have glofish are supporting the exact same technology. The rats aren't deformed, they're just hairless. All hairless rats are ugly, go to petco.

I think this is stupid and pathetic, don't get me wrong. World ending and devoid of humanity it ain't.
 
cassharper;2615295; said:
I don't see how this is "pandora's box". All of you that have glofish are supporting the exact same technology. The rats aren't deformed, they're just hairless. All hairless rats are ugly, go to petco.

I think this is stupid and pathetic, don't get me wrong. World ending and devoid of humanity it ain't.
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A geneticly engineered virus (derived from HIV). Also gene splicing and the introduction of foreign speices genes. ...... Retro virus being unleashed from the mitochondria from the above stated. Makes me kinda nervous thinking about it.

I'm all for scientific and technological advances and I'm not saying eminent doom, but it gets you to thinking about the fact that we don't know whats in that box we're opening. Where this step might lead to a decade/ century from now. Not that we shouldn't do it, just gets you to thinking.
 
There is a guy out there who is creating new life forms. Not making animals glow, he is making WHOLE NEW animals. Granted they are single celled, but it just shows you how simple the trick of throwing in that jellyfish gene is. I would sign up to become glow in the dark, it would be awesome. Anyhow, this scientist figured out a way to take a bacteria and a yeast and put the genetic material from one into the the membrane of the other after it had been emptied and to everyone's surprise what resulted was a new animal that was not a yeast and not a bacterium. He states he is working on more complex creations and has even mapped his own genome. Glowing mice is child's play.
 
zerelli;2615334; said:
There is a guy out there who is creating new life forms. Not making animals glow, he is making WHOLE NEW animals. Granted they are single celled, but it just shows you how simple the trick of throwing in that jellyfish gene is. I would sign up to become glow in the dark, it would be awesome. Anyhow, this scientist figured out a way to take a bacteria and a yeast and put the genetic material from one into the the membrane of the other after it had been emptied and to everyone's surprise what resulted was a new animal that was not a yeast and not a bacterium. He states he is working on more complex creations and has even mapped his own genome. Glowing mice is child's play.
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You're referring to what's called 'Artificial Biology'.

Computers are not powerful enough yet to code more complex organisms than the bacteria responsible for crotch itch, but it is just on the horizon.
 
so if my snake ate one of these, would he glow after a while? or just spit it out because its disgusting.
 
I'm not sure if I've heard of this. I have heard of replacing genetic material at time of embryogenesis, to make unatural genetic hybrids. How is it niether of what it comes from, some genetic material must have been transfered or retained.
 
i think its pretty cool, genetically altered pets were inevitable and it dosent actually harm the mice so i see know wrong doing
 
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