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Scientists Create 12-Headed Jellyfish (gene manipulation alert!)
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| August 1, 2007
| Charles Q. Choi
Posted on 08/03/2007 8:25:45 AM PDT by NYer
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To: NYer
Fascinating stuff. I am a little perplexed at their contentions on how this sheds light on evolution of animals as the researchers claim. The article says "The researchers designed RNA molecules". Further, the description of the Hox and Cnox gene controls remind one of the check boxes on the tabs of Windows software. Are the scientists saying that the whole system was there "from the beginning"? If so, it is like they have just learned how to change screen savers and using it as evidence that Windows code wrote itself.
To: MeanWestTexan
I dont know friend, If your making twelve heads now on a “simple genetic creature”, then it would seem we should already be curing cancer with “monkeying around with genes”. I am amazed at how it’s reported like it’s no big deal. Hey by the way gays getting married is normal and if your offended by it, why you are just backwards.
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posted on
08/03/2007 8:51:09 AM PDT
by
VaRepublican
(I would propagate tag lines but I don't know how...)
To: NYer
re: 12-headed jellyfish
We already had this type of creature - it’s called the Senate Judiciary Committee
[ok, maybe that’s more like an 18-headed jellyfish or whatever the exact number of members may be]
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posted on
08/03/2007 8:57:25 AM PDT
by
Enchante
(Reid and Pelosi Defeatocrats: Surrender Now - Peace for Our Time!!)
To: VaRepublican
I see no logical connection with being pleased with scientific progress and being pleased with gays getting married.
Indeed, if having the tendancy to have a homosexual perversion is genetic, as gays claim, this sort of experimentation would be the kind progress that would lead to a cure of homosexuals.
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posted on
08/03/2007 9:05:35 AM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Kol Hakavod Fred Thompson)
To: NYer
The PERFECT politician!!!
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posted on
08/03/2007 9:06:43 AM PDT
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: NYer
Does it also have 10 horns and 7 crowns?
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posted on
08/03/2007 9:13:19 AM PDT
by
joebuck
To: Red Badger
I give up ... what is that?
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posted on
08/03/2007 9:16:51 AM PDT
by
NYer
("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
To: Calpernia
Question ... does having more heads result in more stingers?
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posted on
08/03/2007 9:17:43 AM PDT
by
NYer
("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
To: NYer
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posted on
08/03/2007 9:28:32 AM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: BenLurkin
Yes, sir, when God said we didn’t have the heads for the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, He was, as usual, right. We have not the brain power to know when to stop or in which direction to go. And this one is he ultimate proof.
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posted on
08/03/2007 9:35:31 AM PDT
by
twonie
(Keep your guns - and stockpile ammo.)
To: MeanWestTexan
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posted on
08/03/2007 10:08:06 AM PDT
by
VaRepublican
(I would propagate tag lines but I don't know how...)
To: VaRepublican
My reply was going to be WHY?Democrats want to increase their congressional candidate pool.
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08/03/2007 10:30:44 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawg
(Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
To: NYer
However, Schierwater noted that corals, which are animals, often form colonies by adding heads to a common stalk, each of which connect to a common gut, just as with the modified jellyfish that the researchers created. Are these really added 'heads' or are they just added 'mouths'.
Big difference.
To: Hail Spode
They've found the code that regulates body plans. Been known for a little while, but the variety already present this early is relatively recent. Was an article about it in Nature (or Science) recently, made the cover. The big deal is that these critters predate the Cambrian explosion by about 100 million years. Meaning all the code for body type variety was there before that took off (nearly all existing body plans appear for the first time in the Cambrian explosion, in a relatively short space of time). We are getting close to understanding what actually happened then, and really led to most of the variety of life seen on earth. At a mechanism level, not a general hand waving principle.
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08/03/2007 1:51:43 PM PDT
by
JasonC
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