Jurassic Pond

[tangent4ronpaul]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2295146/Back-dead-nearly-Scientists-create-living-embryo-extinct-frog-gives-birth-MOUTH.html

Scientists create living embryo of extinct frog that gives birth through its MOUTH

Scientists implant cells of extinct amphibian into the eggs of living relative
Resulting embryos began to divide and lived for several days
Results bring the 'de-extinction' of creatures like the dodo a step closer

An extinct frog is on the verge of revival after scientists used cloning technology to implant a 'dead' cell nucleus into a fresh egg from another frog species.

Although the resulting embryos lived for just a few days, the groundbreaking research by an international team has brought the 'de-extinction' of creatures like woolly mammoths a step closer.

The scientists working for the so-called Lazarus Project are yet to publish their results, but say future barriers to bringing the frog back to life are 'technological, not biological'.

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[BAllen]

So the military gets a hold of it, has them bring back large dinosaurs to fight in wars for them.

[Matt Collins]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ll7YzrGbM4

[Matt Collins]

So the military gets a hold of it, has them bring back large dinosaurs to fight in wars for them.

No, it wont be dinos they bring back, it'll be ancient bacteria, viruii, and biological warfare that there is no known combatant for.

[2young2vote]

So the military gets a hold of it, has them bring back large dinosaurs to fight in wars for them.

I support this. Especially if people ride them into battle.

[Matt Collins]

http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2012/183/0/6/ronald_reagan_riding_a_velociraptor_by_sharpwriter-d55rsh7.jpg

[BAllen]

No, it wont be dinos they bring back, it'll be ancient bacteria, viruii, and biological warfare that there is no known combatant for.

Nah, that could spread to friendly forces too easily. With no antidote? I'm betting on dinosaurs.

[Barrex]

They should clone people from past when they knew not to fuck with mother nature. Morons.

[Tinnuhana]

Great! Santorum on a dinosaur.
Or is that supposed to be Reagan?

[Anti Federalist]

No, it wont be dinos they bring back, it'll be ancient bacteria, viruii, and biological warfare that there is no known combatant for.

And it will be the mad scientists and the MIC fucking around with precisely this, that ends up wiping us all out...not a bang, but a whimper.

[Anti Federalist]

Nah, that could spread to friendly forces too easily. With no antidote? I'm betting on dinosaurs.

Already done almost ten years ago now.



In October 2005 a team of scientists, including government researchers Dr. Terrence Tumpey from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, and Dr. Christopher Basler from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, published a paper in Science where they described the reconstruction of the 1918 Spanish influenza virus.

Over the past decade, Dr. Taubenberger’s lab has been sequencing the genomic RNA of the 1918 influenza virus. Lung tissue samples containing the now extinct virus were obtained from preserved archived autopsy materials and from an influenza victim who had been buried and preserved in the permafrost of Alaska. The final portion of the sequence of the 1918 influenza virus as well as a phylogenetic analysis of it compared to other influenza viruses was published in Nature in the same week as the reconstruction was published in Science. They found that it was most similar to influenza viruses that only infect birds, and that it likely developed a mutation which caused it to be able to infect and spread between humans shortly before the pandemic. The complete sequences of the coding regions for all eight viral gene segments of the 1918 influenza virus are now available on the GenBank database.

http://www.fas.org/biosecurity/education/dualuse/FAS_Basler/2_A.html

[BAllen]

Already done almost ten years ago now.



In October 2005 a team of scientists, including government researchers Dr. Terrence Tumpey from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, and Dr. Christopher Basler from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, published a paper in Science where they described the reconstruction of the 1918 Spanish influenza virus.

Over the past decade, Dr. Taubenberger’s lab has been sequencing the genomic RNA of the 1918 influenza virus. Lung tissue samples containing the now extinct virus were obtained from preserved archived autopsy materials and from an influenza victim who had been buried and preserved in the permafrost of Alaska. The final portion of the sequence of the 1918 influenza virus as well as a phylogenetic analysis of it compared to other influenza viruses was published in Nature in the same week as the reconstruction was published in Science. They found that it was most similar to influenza viruses that only infect birds, and that it likely developed a mutation which caused it to be able to infect and spread between humans shortly before the pandemic. The complete sequences of the coding regions for all eight viral gene segments of the 1918 influenza virus are now available on the GenBank database.

http://www.fas.org/biosecurity/education/dualuse/FAS_Basler/2_A.html

Ten years ago? Obviously nothing has been done with that. Too risky. It could spread to friendlies. One couldn't pinpoint their enemies. They already have drones, smart bullets, and other more precise weaponry at their disposal.

[tennman]

So zoos can go ahead and place an order for a Saber-Tooth Tiger, Wooly Mammoth and dinosaurs. Oh wait...I've already seen that movie. I liked it.