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Viable offspring derived from single unfertilized mammalian oocytes

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Re: Viable offspring derived from single unfertilized mammalian oocytes

#11
post #8

f*k... Oh. we dont have to any more. :)

In Brave New World, they don't have to fuck, yet find plenty of opportunity to do so anyway. (and we are told this is somehow a dystopia?)

Lagniappe: "cloning can be worthwhile" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMkjoQ6S7oQ

Re: Viable offspring derived from single unfertilized mammalian oocytes

#12
post #2

in mice.

Next, dinosaurs.

Dinos are a few orders of magnitude harder. No DNA or RNA fragment can even remotely survive over 65M years. To make something similar to a dino researchers will have to produce a working mix of bird and reptilian DNA - which is enormously complicated.

Re: Viable offspring derived from single unfertilized mammalian oocytes

#13
post #8

f*k... Oh. we dont have to any more. :)

In Brave New World , they don't have to fuck, yet find plenty of opportunity to do so anyway. (and we are told this is somehow a dystopia?) Lagniappe: "cloning can be worthwhile" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMkjoQ6S7oQ

References to crawfish and lagniappe in the same HN thread? My wife would be over the moon!

Re: Viable offspring derived from single unfertilized mammalian oocytes

#19
I remain hopeful...

> "The 28,000-year-old remains of a woolly mammoth, named 'Yuka', were found in Siberian permafrost. Here we recovered the less-damaged nucleus-like structures from the remains and visualised their dynamics in living mouse oocytes after nuclear transfer."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30858410/

Re: Viable offspring derived from single unfertilized mammalian oocytes

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I remain hopeful... > "The 28,000-year-old remains of a woolly mammoth, named 'Yuka', were found in Siberian permafrost. Here we recovered the less-damaged nucleus-like structures from the remains and visualised their dynamics in living mouse oocytes after nuclear transfer." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30858410/

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