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Farm animals may soon get new features through gene editing
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Posted on 11/15/2018 2:18:23 PM PST by ETL

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To: ETL

Wow they could make a pig with more bacon and maybe a dozen drumsticks and a couple hundred hot wings.


21 posted on 11/15/2018 3:27:50 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: ETL

I think cold likely kills more cows than heat does.


22 posted on 11/15/2018 3:36:54 PM PST by jospehm20
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Imagine the horrors once they start applying this technology to humans - and you know they will!


23 posted on 11/15/2018 3:37:39 PM PST by CtBigPat (Qanon - Please be real...)
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Yo, Daf... post 16 is calling you.


24 posted on 11/15/2018 3:40:34 PM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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To: jospehm20

Dairy cows give less or no milk at all in hotter climates, this is a bigger problem for 3rd world countries since developed countries tend to be in the temperate zone and can afford AC.

Cold only requires a barn, which stays warm simply from the body heat/respiration of the cows.


25 posted on 11/15/2018 3:44:41 PM PST by Valpal1
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Didn’t know that about milk. Thanks.


26 posted on 11/15/2018 3:49:13 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: CtBigPat

The bright side of people turning themselves into animals is that all the liberal retards will turn themselves into cows and sheep and as such we can just let real actual predators hunt them to extinction.


27 posted on 11/15/2018 4:08:57 PM PST by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: ETL

Meh, all this is okay, but the REAL brass ring are pigs whose cells all express human epitopes:

Cells have grabber doo-dads on the outside —epitopes— that tell the fighter cells of your immune system, “Yey, I’m you, we’re on the same team, so don’t attack me, go attack some NON-me stuff...”

Thusly humanized pigs would make it so that if you get a donor heart from a Pig? Your body doesn’t realize that heart is/was not yours. Therefore your body doesn’t reject it and you don’t need immune-system suppression drugs.

They have humanized mouse and pig cells (both animals appear totally unaltered), but getting it just right for donation of entire organs to human patients is still sorta iffy:

I think in 10 years or so they’ll have it down cold.


28 posted on 11/15/2018 4:29:15 PM PST by gaijin
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Now THAT is a cock and bull story!


29 posted on 11/15/2018 5:07:24 PM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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No. There’s no need for that, but there are big risks.


30 posted on 11/15/2018 5:48:32 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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I ain’t gonna scrape those hogs!


31 posted on 11/15/2018 8:34:44 PM PST by oldasrocks (rump)
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32 posted on 11/16/2018 11:24:29 AM PST by Daffynition (Rudy: What are you up to today? :))
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Sounds like Green technology to me.

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33 posted on 11/19/2018 8:20:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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