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Scientists Create 12-Headed Jellyfish (gene manipulation alert!)
Yahoo News ^
| August 1, 2007
| Charles Q. Choi
Posted on 08/03/2007 8:25:45 AM PDT by NYer
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posted on
08/03/2007 8:25:47 AM PDT
by
NYer
To: NYer
12-headed Jellyfish
Now there’s scientific progress.
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posted on
08/03/2007 8:29:42 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: NYer
Jellyfish have heads? Who knew?
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posted on
08/03/2007 8:31:29 AM PDT
by
CaptRon
(Pedicaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: BenLurkin
Heck, if you get drunk enough and look through the bottom of a cut glass beer mug that guy sitting across the bar looks like a 12 headed jelly fish.
Don’t ask me how I know that.
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posted on
08/03/2007 8:31:38 AM PDT
by
dblshot
To: NYer
Looks like Spongebob will have to get a bigger net.
To: NYer
Just another example of just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
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posted on
08/03/2007 8:35:23 AM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: NYer
Done first on south park
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posted on
08/03/2007 8:36:04 AM PDT
by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government, Benito Guilinni a short man in search of a balcony)
To: BenLurkin
“12-headed Jellyfish
Now there’s scientific progress.”
Much harder will be trying to grow a spine in Republican politicians. Though, since they are also jellyfish, imagine them with twelve heads.
To: mtbopfuyn
My reply was going to be WHY?
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posted on
08/03/2007 8:36:43 AM PDT
by
VaRepublican
(I would propagate tag lines but I don't know how...)
To: VaRepublican
“by carefully monkeying with a few genes” What!?
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posted on
08/03/2007 8:37:38 AM PDT
by
VaRepublican
(I would propagate tag lines but I don't know how...)
To: FastCoyote
To: NYer
12-headed jellyfish? Yawn. Ping me when they make a ...
FOUR-ASSED MONKEY!
To: from occupied ga
Dangit, you beat me by |-—————| that much.
To: NYer
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posted on
08/03/2007 8:41:04 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(All I know about Minnesota, I learned from Garrison Keilor.............)
To: VaRepublican
“by carefully monkeying with a few genes” What!?
Isn’t that what Dr. Moreau said?
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posted on
08/03/2007 8:41:07 AM PDT
by
dblshot
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posted on
08/03/2007 8:42:55 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Freedom is the right of all sentient beings - Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime)
To: NYer
12 heads are better than one!
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posted on
08/03/2007 8:43:42 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(A man who will not defend himself does not deserve to be defended by others.)
To: NYer
Indeed, these findings suggest the suppression of just a few genes could have led to incredible diversity in body plans "from the very beginning,"
Weird, if you supress genes it screws things up? /sarc
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posted on
08/03/2007 8:43:59 AM PDT
by
ljco
To: VaRepublican
I would think they chose the jellyfish because it was genetically “simple,” and once the process is perfected, the process could be applied to something more complex and presumably more useful, like maybe replacing the faulty genes in a Down’s sydrome child in-vivo.
Or chopping out the gene that causes certain breast cancers.
Etc.
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posted on
08/03/2007 8:44:18 AM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
To: NYer
Eleutheria with two heads (above; arrows point to heads) and several heads (below)
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posted on
08/03/2007 8:48:59 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
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