November 21, 2008 – 3:12 am
In line with our love of cloning and dangerous experiments in general, the Spectre are genuinely pleased to learn that insane soviet genetics from the 1920s are all set to be this seasons hot new scientific hangout. Apparently the Mammoth project is a trifle costly, but Science confidently predicts a decent map of the Neanderthal genome by Christmas, and exciting possibilities for a Human or Chimp/Neanderthal mashup. According to ironically named top DNA-Tinkerer George Church:
“The big issue would be whether enough people felt that a chimp-Neanderthal hybrid would be acceptable, and that would be broadly discussed before anyone started to work on it,”
Personally I say enough talk, I want my monkey man! And people say science is boring..Mutant Ape Army Now!
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November 5, 2008 – 1:18 pm
After producing a clone of a mouse that has been dead for 16 years, scientists at Japan’s Riken institute hope to bring the Woolly Mammoth – everyone’s favourite hippy elephant – back to life.
“The newly developed technology of nucleus transfer greatly improved the possibility of reviving extinct animals”
Also, note animalS. I hope they bring back the Glyptodon. Because I really want to ride around on an armadillo the size of a VW.
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October 31, 2008 – 12:33 am
Have you, like me, put your internal organs through slightly more wear n’ tear than was strictly necessary in the past? Worried perhaps, that your most likely causes of death are spontaneous combustion or melting, Robocop/Wicked Witch style? Well worry no more! Thanks to the chaps at the excellent cloningresources.com, it turns out that your clapped-out pancreas will soon be replaceable! With..you guessed it…reanimated rat parts. And I quote:
By using a process called whole organ decellularization, scientists from the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair grew functioning heart tissue by taking dead rat and pig hearts and reseeding them with a mixture of live cells.
I am assuming that University of Minnesota is an anagram of ‘Miskatonic Institute‘ But obviously messing with forces man wasn’t meant to understand is always a good thing! Can’t wait for them to whip me up a new liver- good work dangerous and morally ambiguous scientists everywhere!
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