Okay. i hate to be the person who bursts your bubble about how easy it
is to make a furry, but i went and got a degree in molecular biology, so
i feel like i've got a responsibility.
#1 the first couple of rounds of cell division happen all at once. This
was only five divisions in, and there should have been 32 cells. the
fact that there was 28 probably means that things were allready going
wrong. That embryo most likely wouldn't ever have made it past a
blastula, if that.
#2 if all the "insides" (standard proceedure is to swap only the
nucleus) were switched, than 100% of the DNA would have been human.
you'd only get a little cow DNA in the mitochondria, and that's nearly
the same in most species anyway, and has *nothing* to do with development.
#3 There have been lots of chimeras made. Most of them are combining
cells of two animals of the same species. Other experiments have stuck a
handful of genes into an animal, and had them be expressed (most notable
are the flourescent mice, plants, bunnies, and primates.) but that is
only one or two genes, and they have *nothing* to do with the creature's
development. Start messing around with that, and you've got thousands
of genes, and millionis of combinations, since they all interact. We
might someday be able to understand it well enough to meddle
effectively, but we're not even close yet. If we ever do get around to
making furries, they're going to be grown up from cells. The idea of
"reworking your dna" to become a furry is several billion times more
complex than making a furry from scratch, and like i said, we're not
even near that goal yet. It's a bit depressing, i know. you'd have
better luck resculpting yourself with nanotechnology, but that science
is still in its infancy. In fifty, a hundred years... who knows, it
might be possible. But don't hold your breath..
It is standard practice to test a man's fertility by seeing if and how
quickly his sperm will ferilize a hamster egg. it'll even start to
divide a couple of times. but different genes, and different #'s of
chromosomes cause development to grind to a screeching halt early on.
I wish it were that easy, i really do. *shrugs*
-SirFox
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> * A scientist took a cow embryo and took out the insides. He then
> swabbed his check for white blood cells and put them in the embryo and
> let it grow to 28 cells before termination it would have been 95%
> Human. So any invitro fertilization clinic can hollow out a human egg
> and insert some animal DNA and make a chimera or anthromorph. Think
> about it, It's that simple IM certain that other countries have
> already created living chimeras. Do a little research on chimeras and
> Jeremy Rifkin or go to http://www.foet.org/ .*
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Received on Fri Oct 18 2002 - 23:07:06 CDT