Green ham and eggs?
Anti-Social Darwinism
15-01-2006, 22:40
Stem-cell researchers have just created pigs that glow green in the dark; is this not a trivialization of this particular research?
Wei-Yuan
15-01-2006, 22:47
like everything else, science only exists to be trivialized :rolleyes:
[NS]Simonist
15-01-2006, 22:48
http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=463739
A couple days behind. Link to story in this thread.
Anti-Social Darwinism
15-01-2006, 22:54
Simonist']http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=463739
A couple days behind. Link to story in this thread.
Sorry I missed that. Every time I've been online, the forums have been down. Seem like they've been down for weeks now.
Somewhere
15-01-2006, 22:59
Stem-cell researchers have just created pigs that glow green in the dark; is this not a trivialization of this particular research?
Apparantly it will have practical uses because it will aid genetic research due to the glowing of the animal's genetic material. And besides this, experiments like this can elad onto better things. If they can implant genetic material to change something like colour, then who knows what else they could do?
[NS]Simonist
15-01-2006, 23:00
Sorry I missed that. Every time I've been online, the forums have been down. Seem like they've been down for weeks now.
Yeah, I think we broke jolt. I actually linked more because the story in the article further exemplifies the total "WTF?!" of the whole idea. But a few of us probably pinpointed the real reason behind the breakthrough.
DrunkenDove
15-01-2006, 23:24
Stem-cell researchers have just created pigs that glow green in the dark; is this not a trivialization of this particular research?
It's done all the time. The "glowing green" gene is used as litmus test. If your pig glows, then the genes working properly. If it's still just a pig, it's back to the drawing board.
Stem-cell researchers have just created pigs that glow green in the dark; is this not a trivialization of this particular research?
It makes it easier for them to see where implanted tissue from these pigs is in another animal's body.
Dobbsworld
16-01-2006, 00:00
Uhh... you could umm... erm... you could use the pigs to test... ahh, test - you could use the pigs to test for harmful flourescent lighting!
*coughs*
Y'know, some people get seizures from flourescent lights...
Uhh... you could umm... erm... you could use the pigs to test... ahh, test - you could use the pigs to test for harmful flourescent lighting!
*coughs*
Y'know, some people get seizures from flourescent lights...
*Gasp*
You're back!
*revolutionary hug*
Dobbsworld
16-01-2006, 00:06
Well Dhomme I haven't really been totally away, but it's good seeing you nonetheless.
Cool pigs.
What's next? Chameleonic capuchin monkeys? Iridescent goats?
Who says the 21st century isn't all it's cracked up to be?
Goodlifes
16-01-2006, 01:03
As I mentioned on the other thread, there are natural green eggs (well the shell is green). As well as blue, pink, and a variety of other colors. They came from natural genes. The problem is one of marketing. Bu then a few years ago no one would buy brown eggs, now they charge more for brown than white. Customers are strange.
By the way, pigs are a great research tool because their internal organs are close to human's. Pig parts like heart valves are used in human transplants.
As far as glow in the dark. The gene from fireflies has been put in many plants and animals. There are glow in the dark fields of wheat.
[NS]Simonist
16-01-2006, 03:05
As I mentioned on the other thread, there are natural green eggs (well the shell is green). As well as blue, pink, and a variety of other colors. They came from natural genes. The problem is one of marketing. Bu then a few years ago no one would buy brown eggs, now they charge more for brown than white. Customers are strange.
By the way, pigs are a great research tool because their internal organs are close to human's. Pig parts like heart valves are used in human transplants.
As far as glow in the dark. The gene from fireflies has been put in many plants and animals. There are glow in the dark fields of wheat.
....When did you say that in the other thread? I was all over that (very short) thread and you said nothing of the sort. Unless there's another thread I missed. Next, what do the eggs have to do with the genetically enhanced pigs? What does the firefly DNA have to do with the genetically enhanced pigs? I feel like I missed the freakin' boat and that's not a feeling I like.
Rotovia-
16-01-2006, 03:18
Simonist']http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=463739
A couple days behind. Link to story in this thread.
This title's better though...
Theroetical Physicists
16-01-2006, 04:28
They did something similiar years ago with a plant and the "glow" gene from a lightning bug.
Very interesting.
Good Lifes
16-01-2006, 06:14
Simonist']....When did you say that in the other thread? I was all over that (very short) thread and you said nothing of the sort. Unless there's another thread I missed. Next, what do the eggs have to do with the genetically enhanced pigs? What does the firefly DNA have to do with the genetically enhanced pigs? I feel like I missed the freakin' boat and that's not a feeling I like.
Agh, the title of the thread is "Green Ham and Eggs" I was just commenting that green eggs do exist. And yes I put the same in the other thread.
Now as far as why they put firefly genes in plants and animals. They are trying to find what each bit of DNA does. By putting the gene in a specific spot on the DNA and observing what glows green, they will know what that piece of DNA does. This has been used to turn goat milk green so they would know where to put a gene that would allow the goat to produce human hormones in its milk that hormone could then be extracted and used for human medicine.
In the case of pigs, pigs have organs very similiar to humans. Pig heart valves are implanted in humans. Now if we could produce a human-pig chimera the pig could produce human organs with human DNA. This would solve the shortage of organ donors.