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A new footwear company is customising the skin of living stingrays to make $1,800 bespoke sneakers. RayFish Footwear enables customers 'grow' their own stingray by having scientists mix and match DNA from several different species, breeding unique patterns and colours in their skin. The company claims to have perfected the genetic modification of stingrays, which has been met with both skepticism and disgust from PETA and bioengineering scientists. Read more: dailymail.co.uk
Originally posted by THE_PROFESSIONAL
Whats next kittens?
Scientists exploring possible treatments for HIV have, purely as a byproduct of their methods, earned themselves a spot in today’s science blog postings: They’ve made glowing kittens.
When these green kitties were still twinkles in their parents’ eyes, scientists investigating a macaque gene thought to protect monkeys against feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) inserted it into cat eggs with a lab-grown virus, intending to test whether cats carrying the gene were resistant to FIV as well. Researchers are interested in seeing how the macaque gene guards against FIV, which is the feline version of HIV, in hopes of transferring their insights to combating HIV.
But here’s where things get wacky: The team also included in the virus a jellyfish gene that makes a glowing green protein, to act as a signal. The virus does not always succeed in transferring the genes entrusted to it, but by including the jellyfish gene, the team gave themselves an easy way to tell when the transfer took place: kittens that glow green under fluorescent light, showing that they carry the jellyfish gene, almost certainly carry the macaque gene as well.
Originally posted by THE_PROFESSIONAL
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Custom DNA Skin Sneakers
A new footwear company is customising the skin of living stingrays to make $1,800 bespoke sneakers. RayFish Footwear enables customers 'grow' their own stingray by having scientists mix and match DNA from several different species, breeding unique patterns and colours in their skin. The company claims to have perfected the genetic modification of stingrays, which has been met with both skepticism and disgust from PETA and bioengineering scientists. Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk... l#ixzz1wQkAqq2E
First mink, now stingrays? Whats next kittens? I refuse to believe that this is done out of necessity but rather it is extravagance, opulence and arrogance just so you could go to a cocktail party with some rich schmoozers and talk about your custom order sneakers. These sneakers are made from mixing and matching genetic traits to your specifications. We are not far off from designer babies as well.edit on 023131p://5America/ChicagoThu, 31 May 2012 02:43:50 -0500 by THE_PROFESSIONAL because: link fix
Originally posted by THE_PROFESSIONAL
reply to post by Maslo
Probably not, but they are being grown and killed for fashion is my main beef (pun intended) with it. Plus who knows what kinds of genetic diseases the stingrays get but are unable to tell us.
Originally posted by Maslo
Links are broken, but I have to ask, whats the issue? Do the stingrays suffer somehow because of genetic modifications? If not, then I dont see the problem with this practice.
Originally posted by detachedindividual
Originally posted by Maslo
Links are broken, but I have to ask, whats the issue? Do the stingrays suffer somehow because of genetic modifications? If not, then I dont see the problem with this practice.
I think it's just another example of our complete arrogance as a species, that we would go to such ridiculous lengths all for nothing more than social status.
It's insanely sad that people who do things like this can't see how pathetic their lives are - that they need to fill that dark void in their soul for half an hour, and that they need to go to such extreme lengths to fill it too.
At least, that's what it means to me. Sick Humans with absolutely no common sense or true sense of value. They waste their short lives on this earth chasing sh*t that is completely meaningless and pointless for ten minutes of satisfaction that they "have something".
Pathetic Humans.
It's insanely sad that people who do things like this can't see how pathetic their lives are - that they need to fill that dark void in their soul for half an hour, and that they need to go to such extreme lengths to fill it too.