According to MSNBC, this scientifc team has started to implant human disease-related genes in the course of dog cloning, and this could be applied to finding treatmets for genetic diseases like Parkinson’s.

I just want to put in my thoughts before we write this off as nothing but a pointless endeavor that is cruel to animals. These Bealges are model organisms for applications that could be potentially used to save the lives of people with incurable conditions, like Parkinson’s. The dogs seemed like happy, normal beagles in all of the videos about this news development. They were romping around happily just like any other beagle would be, and the korean researchers were lovingly petting them just like any other pet owner would have done. Maybe this is acceptable research, there was no evidence that the dogs were mistreated. If they had genetically engineered an animal that wasn’t as cute, such as a chicken or a donkey, would there have been the same responses? Just a thought. If a loved one in your family had a terrible disease (like Parkinson’s) and this type of research collectively helped to cure this invidual in your family, would you feel the same? Would you consider this research the same as playing God if its applications saved your spouse’s or child’s life a decade down the road? I don’t think these developments are as one-dimensional as they seem.

LOL Seth, that was funny.

And yes, they are real. I’d quite like Glow-in-the-dark rats, because i breed mine, but i wouldn’t buy one, as with the dogs.

How about cloning a dog that won’t go on my lawn!

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