Cloning Yields Human-Rabbit Hybrid Embryo 655
ralphb writes "Here is the story of scientists in China who have, for the first time, used cloning techniques to create hybrid embryos that contain a mix of DNA from both humans and rabbits. Hop on over for a look!"
God, I've seen a lot of crap movies.... (Score:5, Funny)
We're all doomed!!
Mike
Tasteless (Score:5, Funny)
Hugh Hefner at work? (Score:5, Funny)
I for one (Score:5, Funny)
Bah... (Score:5, Funny)
Hrmm (Score:5, Funny)
I will remind them that I could be useful in rounding up people to toil in their underground carrot mines.
human DNA (Score:3, Funny)
Better pay attention, when you go hunting next time.
Finally... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:God, I've seen a lot of crap movies.... (Score:2, Funny)
Of course, a little rabbit never hurt anybody. It's the really huge rabbits we have to worry about.
Re:Bah... (Score:4, Funny)
Gives new meaning to the phrase.. (Score:2, Funny)
I would have thought ... (Score:2, Funny)
Those monsters! (Score:5, Funny)
This is neat and all, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Is that very useful ? (Score:4, Funny)
I thought China needed to control the exponential growth of their population, do they really need that? They should sell the technology to the state of Florida instead
Grant them entry visas now! (Score:0, Funny)
They can save on costume costs.
Re:Hugh Hefner at work? (Score:5, Funny)
New Chinese policy: Only one baby rabbit per couple!
Re:Bah... (Score:5, Funny)
The team said it retrieved foreskin tissue from two 5-year-old boys and two men, and facial tissue from a 60-year-old woman, as a source of skin cells. They fused those cells with New Zealand rabbit eggs from which the vast majority of rabbit DNA had been removed.
If you thought rotten.com was bad, just wait until foreskinrabbitface.com goes live.
Well... (Score:0, Funny)
And his experiment ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hrmm (Score:2, Funny)
They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses
And what's with all the carrots?
What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?
Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies
Lyrics by Josh Whedon [letssingit.com], reproduced without permission because, hey, its the internet and everyone does it...
idea (Score:2, Funny)
What have we created [wsfa.org]
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"this is the gloaming"
Radiohead
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Obj Monty Python (Score:5, Funny)
Wizard: It's a horrible beast.
King Arthur: What, you mean behind the bunny rabbit?
Wizard: It IS the bunny rabbit?
What I really want to know is... (Score:4, Funny)
Smoking Man at work? (Score:1, Funny)
Foreskins (Score:5, Funny)
if a cell = a life then... (Score:4, Funny)
or would you say it's a multiple suicide?
either way, I'm definitely going to hell, right?
Re:Not really a mutant (Score:5, Funny)
Advertiser Links (Score:5, Funny)
Did anyone notice the advertiser links at the bottom of the page for Latest Stem Cell Therapy [biomark-intl.com] and Dwarf Rabbit [shopping.com]?
Talk about keyword advertising gone awry!
Re:Smoking Man at work? (Score:5, Funny)
As for rabbits... couldn't they have picked a cooler species to intermix with? Wolves, cheetahs (fast sprinters for the Olympics!), bears... hmph. Definitely not primates though... anyone seeing 28 Days Later should put the kibosh on that one.
Next step . . . (Score:5, Funny)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Refrence... (Score:5, Funny)
Hoax (Score:2, Funny)
This has to be a hoax. Rabbits are mammals and give live birth.
Think of the furries... (Score:5, Funny)
Of course... they're mostly yiffy all the time.....
This was predicted by Southpark... (Score:1, Funny)
If sigs are for losers, and this is a sig, then I am a loser!
Re:Bah... (Score:2, Funny)
*Backs away*
Chinese cloning (Score:0, Funny)
Oh, wait. Just move on...
Re:Hugh Hefner at work? (Score:5, Funny)
Lenny's going to be pissed when he accidentally kills his...
Re:Tasteless (Score:5, Funny)
There are, after all, a *LOT* of Chinese...
"I'm multiplying Doc, I'm multiplying."
Re:I would have thought ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:God, I've seen a lot of crap movies.... (Score:4, Funny)
What about the rabbit with big narly teeth that almost killed all of Sir Arthurs knights?
All this scientific research .... (Score:3, Funny)
Human-Management hybred (Score:2, Funny)
Don't they realize they've been doing this in Kentucky for a long time?
Re:Not really a mutant (Score:5, Funny)
To clone human stem cells:
1) Find woman to let you jam a needle into her ovary
2) Stick random human cell nucleus in egg you sucked out
3) ???
4) Stem Cells!!
To clone human stem cells in China:
1) Look for woman to let you jam a needle into her ovary
2) Get kicked in the nads
3) Buy rabbits
4) Jam a needle in rabbit ovary
5) Stick random human cell nucleus in egg you sucked out
6) ???
7) Stem Cells!!
8) Claim to have created rabbit-babies
9) Wait for science-illiterate newsmen to promote your stock symbol on TV
10) Profit!!
What a bunch of fuckholes. Seriously, when the best scientific information in your article's coming from the Vatican, I think you're in trouble.
Re:God, I've seen a lot of crap movies.... (Score:3, Funny)
Screenshots? (Score:1, Funny)
That's hot. (Score:3, Funny)
Hm.
I'm still waiting... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Bah... (Score:5, Funny)
They already can. Actually, it's five asses. The prototype one they have developed is named Darl McBride [sco.com] and the asses are named Sontag, Bench, Wilson, Hunsaker and Broughton [sco.com]
China develops bunny hibrid! (Score:5, Funny)
Chinese scientists announced that now they'll focus research in catgirls.
Re:God, I've seen a lot of crap movies.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Buffy the Vampire Slayer Refrence... (Score:1, Funny)
Hey, you can use that phrase in any slashdot story.
Future pron star (Score:2, Funny)
Bow Down! (Score:2, Funny)
Long term results. (Score:4, Funny)
Some actually turned out ok [grendel.org], others not so well [fozzee.net].
Re:Bah... (Score:3, Funny)
Self Pregnancy Testing.... (Score:1, Funny)
Perfect.
Did they smell the human contributors? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:God, I've seen a lot of crap movies.... (Score:4, Funny)
Hang on, I gotta pull it out of Bill O'Reilly's ass..
Re:Island of Dr. Moreau (Score:4, Funny)
(She's an anime character with rabbit ears.)
-uso.
Whiteman cometh (Score:2, Funny)
Happy conception day to yoooooou.... (Score:2, Funny)
Jebus H Christ, man! Have you seen my parents?!? I don't want to think of my conception AT ALL! I like to think that I was unceremoniously dropped down the chimney by a big, hairy pterodactyl.
Science:Cloning Yields Fodder For Tabloids! (Score:2, Funny)
"The Amazing Rabbit Boy!"
"Rabbit Boy Sets World Record In Sports"
"Rabbit Boy Talks To Animals"
"Rabbit Boy Abducted By Aliens"
"Rabbit Boy Cures Poison Ivy With Saliva"
"Rabbit Boy Democratic Hopeful For California"
(its enough to make you chew your own foot off,isn't it?)
Re:Happy conception day to yoooooou.... (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, I was a c-section baby. Tried to strangle myself with the umbilical cord. I heard the Bee Gees and decided I wanted no part of this world.
Re:Happy conception day to yoooooou.... (Score:3, Funny)
Hey, me too! You can't tell by looking at me, but whenever I leave the house, I have to go out the window.
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Re:Think of the furries... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:God, I've seen a lot of crap movies.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Think of the furries... (Score:2, Funny)
What's wrong with using an actual roadrunner and not something that just resembles it?
Sluggites Unite (Score:3, Funny)
C'mon slashdotters, think! (Score:2, Funny)
But where are all the 21st century equivalents of pitchforks and torches? Can't we storm the castles with some kind of laser thingy or something? Wifi? RC helicopters? Man-made diamond pitchforks?
This is supposed to be about nerd stuff. Not some 'armless little bunny-rabbit.
not another one?! (Score:4, Funny)