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 Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:39 pm
Another thing made by genetic engineering...
It's cool though... I guess they made the glowing animals for studies, or maybe just to see if it's possible to do make organisms glow...
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:26 pm
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 6:54 pm
Hmm.. I've heard of glowing fishes, but never glowing butterflies..
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Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:03 pm
umm.... kinda creepy! I also don't support those kind of things.
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:44 pm
Dragonprincess4eva If something eats the glowing animal...I wonder if their stomachs will glow That would be interesting to figure out... Or to see what would happen to them...
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:04 am
To any kinds of alterations there are always both positive and negative outcomes.
Sometimes the negative isn't so bad.
I came accross a site not too long about about florecent protien - which has exsisted for millions of years in one species of jellyfish. In 1994 it was cloned and supposidly used all over the world in every concievalbe plant and animal.
o.o
Some scientist have called this GFP (Green Flurecent Protien) the Microscope of the new century - because glowing genes make it easier to tract protiens in an organism to see where they are made and where they go.
I didn't read to much into it, but indeed it's rather interesting.
I shall look this up some more and post more information.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 9:51 am
I don't think the glowing itself will do any damage to the animals that are altered...however I do have a problem with humans playing God when it comes to genetics
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:00 pm
Playing God is fun though!
xp
We do it all the time in our everyday lives...
Take for example a kid playing with an ant pile.
The Ants that live and die are at the mercy of that kid.
*goes to play with ants*
Same for any animal, we decide what animals are "safe and which aren't and then go about exterminating them.
Snakes are a good example.
In fact the other day I got into a discussion with a coworker about hunting snakes and killing them, just cuz.
I was like: eek
and she said, well they are evil and deserve to die.
Pfft.
That's to an extent is playing "God".
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 12:37 pm
Emily`s_Gone_Mad Playing God is fun though!
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We do it all the time in our everyday lives...
Take for example a kid playing with an ant pile.
The Ants that live and die are at the mercy of that kid.
*goes to play with ants*
Same for any animal, we decide what animals are "safe and which aren't and then go about exterminating them.
Snakes are a good example.
In fact the other day I got into a discussion with a coworker about hunting snakes and killing them, just cuz.
I was like: eek
and she said, well they are evil and deserve to die.
Pfft.
That's to an extent is playing "God". I love snakes...they usually very docile animals except when threatened. I used to work in a petshop with snakes all day and I would rather handle them than the savannah monitors we had...now those things are evil (still deserve to live tho).
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:18 pm
snoja I hope they don't start doing that with humans eek
I say it isn't right. Now the butterfly can't hide and will get eated cause all its enemies will eat it gonk ! Maybe we'd mutate into superhumans and fight eachother biggrin Im all for it razz
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 1:19 pm
naturally glowing animals rock! but scientificaly engeneering them to glow is kinda... wrong.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:11 pm
snoja I hope they don't start doing that with humans eek
I say it isn't right. Now the butterfly can't hide and will get eated cause all its enemies will eat it gonk ! I say it's more for novelty purposes. Like, "Look at my cool pet! It glows!" Probably not for release in the wild.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:13 pm
annerbelle snoja I hope they don't start doing that with humans eek
I say it isn't right. Now the butterfly can't hide and will get eated cause all its enemies will eat it gonk ! I say it's more for novelty purposes. Like, "Look at my cool pet! It glows!" Probably not for release in the wild.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:27 pm
Emily`s_Gone_Mad To any kinds of alterations there are always both positive and negative outcomes.
Sometimes the negative isn't so bad.
I came accross a site not too long about about florecent protien - which has exsisted for millions of years in one species of jellyfish. In 1994 it was cloned and supposidly used all over the world in every concievalbe plant and animal.
o.o
Some scientist have called this GFP (Green Flurecent Protien) the Microscope of the new century - because glowing genes make it easier to tract protiens in an organism to see where they are made and where they go.
I didn't read to much into it, but indeed it's rather interesting.
I shall look this up some more and post more information. GFP is pretty much used with everything. You can tag the C-terminus of any protein with GFP instead of using a radiolabel that would likely disrupt the terciary structure of said protein. Yellow fluorescent protein (YFP) is a mutant of GFP. It was made by changin nucleotides in GFP's sequence. Cyano Fluorescence Protein (CFP) was done the same way as YFP. GFP is around 55-57 amino acids in lenght. It has a core chromophore that emits green light (fluorescence) when exited by 488nm wavelenghts. GFP is pretty much inert so it'll go anywhere in the cell. This makes it excellent for protein tagging. It's also great for photo-bleaching. You need a special kind of microscope called a Fluorescence microscope to view GFP. Other tags used frequently are Myc, Flag and HA.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:32 pm
Well that puts it in perspective.
But what is Protien tagging good for?
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