Chinese create full grown cloned mice from Skin Cells - Polidicks

[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUST264488[/url] Thread music: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qCyotQBG_8[/media] [quote] HONG KONG, July 24 (Reuters) - Chinese researchers have managed to create powerful stem cells from mouse skin and used these to generate fertile live mouse pups. They used induced pluripotent skin cells, or iPS cells -- cells that have been reprogrammed to look and act like embryonic stem cells. Embryonic stem cells, taken from days-old embryos, have the power to morph into any cell type and, in mice, can be implanted into a mother's womb to create living mouse pups. Their experiment, published in Nature, means that it is theoretically possible to clone someone using ordinary connective tissue cells found on the person's skin, but the experts were quick to distance themselves from such controversy. From the skin cells, the Chinese scientists created[B] 37 stem cell lines, and of these, three generated live births.[/B] "One line can generate such competent mice that the longest living one we have is nine months," Zeng told Reuters. "It has generated now more than 100 of second-generation (mice) and more than 100 third-generation (mice). It really demonstrates how fertile and strong the system is. [/quote] Wow, considering that it normally takes hundreds of times to grow embryos, we might have full on cloning soon. Except for the fact that they're not mice, they're overgrown pieces of skin... right? We build for china!

:china:

1 billion people + cloning = trillions of people + weapons = billions of soldiers.

This is revolutionary. And fairly scary.

[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;16230052]1 billion people + cloning = trillions of people + weapons = billions of soldiers.[/QUOTE] [URL=http://img146.imageshack.us/i/ilmfearx0608.jpg/][IMG]http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6825/ilmfearx0608.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

The scary thing is it could be used by any well-researched nation. China, US, UK, Japan, any of them that obtained the technology to clone an army could use it for their purposes, good or bad. Apparently, China's in the lead.

Jurassic Park anyone? I know that we would need dinosaur cells, which no longer exist, but still.

Yay one step closer to living forever.

Shit....

It's the same damn thing.

Reverse Ninja :question: [QUOTE=Levithan II;16230337]Yay one step closer to living forever.[/QUOTE] No, one step closer to a clone that just ends up killing you/hating you/copies you. You just die.

[QUOTE=Big.Boss;16230425]Reverse Ninja :question: No, one step closer to a clone that just ends up killing you/hating you/copies you. You just die.[/QUOTE] Personalities aren't cloned though.

Chinese super soldiers.

[QUOTE=Xystus234;16230518]Personalities aren't cloned though.[/QUOTE] True, but if they are around the original, it would be most likely that they pick up the original's personality, because they can obviously easily adapt to it.

[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;16230052]1 billion people + cloning = trillions of people + weapons = billions of soldiers.[/QUOTE] [code]1 billion people + cloning = trillions of people = overpopulation = lack of jobs = unemployment = overloaded healthcare system = disease + death.[/code]

[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;16230308]The scary thing is it could be used by any well-researched nation. China, US, UK, Japan, any of them that obtained the technology to clone an army could use it for their purposes, good or bad. Apparently, China's in the lead.[/QUOTE] Ugh, for fuck's sakes you guys play too many video games. There's a fairly large difference between cloning mice and cloning fully capable human soldiers.

[QUOTE=Lankist;16230586]Ugh, for fuck's sakes you guys play too many video games. There's a fairly large difference between cloning mice and cloning fully capable human soldiers.[/QUOTE] :question: Wasn't referencing anything...... Who said anything about soldiers?

[QUOTE=Big.Boss;16230632]:question: Wasn't referencing anything...... Who said anything about soldiers?[/QUOTE] The person I quoted, who happened to be Not-You. [editline]09:40PM[/editline] Are you illiterate or just too lazy to read?

[QUOTE=Lankist;16230681]The person I quoted, who happened to be Not-You. [editline]09:40PM[/editline] Are you illiterate or just too lazy to read?[/QUOTE] Lazy, I thought you were quoting me due to the possible reference :v:

Sounds like an awesome discovery. :china: + :science:

[QUOTE=Big.Boss;16230562]True, but if they are around the original, it would be most likely that they pick up the original's personality, because they can obviously easily adapt to it.[/QUOTE] the fuck do you think the point of cloning would be if your sentience isn't transferred? There is no point

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[QUOTE=Penguin-Man;16230733]I'd clone myself as a woman.[/QUOTE] :raise:

[QUOTE=Penguin-Man;16230733]I'd clone myself as a woman.[/QUOTE] Can't snip this stop hammer time

Here comes lankist ruining the hopes of every single optimistic person in a section wide radius.

I wonder how legit this really is, or is it yet another scandal.

[QUOTE=gamefreek76;16230534]Chinese super soldiers.[/QUOTE] We could clone Inuits for arctic warfare. :P

[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;16230308]The scary thing is it could be used by any well-researched nation. China, US, UK, Japan, any of them that obtained the technology to clone an army could use it for their purposes, good or bad. Apparently, China's in the lead.[/QUOTE] Why the fuck aren't you banned yet? And like a billion years ago we cloned sheep. Big deal china, this was probably a lie just like the other 99% of the shit you let us see about your shitty country full of shit. Shit eaters.

[QUOTE=Fekel Die Juden;16231207]Why the fuck aren't you banned yet? And like a billion years ago we cloned sheep. Big deal china, this was probably a lie just like the other 99% of the shit you let us see about your shitty country full of shit. Shit eaters.[/QUOTE] :downs: This man, on the other hand Lankist, [i]IS[/i] illiterate.

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