Vets hope little Got is as tough a fighter as his father the source of his genetic material was
Posted 05.19.2010 at 4:59 pm
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Fighting Bull Cloned
Got, a cloned fighting bull, was born Tuesday at a farm in northern Spain.
AP, via Washington Post
Scientists in Spain have cloned a fighting bull for the first time, saying they hoped he would be as fierce as his father. The feat could mean that a fresh version of the same animal would be able to fight again and again (and be killed again and again). The 53-pound calf, named "Got," which means "a glass" in Valencian, was born Tuesday, BBC reported.
It took three years for the team to find a way to do it, according to the project leader, Vicente Torrent.
Got was created using nuclear transfer, wherein DNA from the "father" bull was inserted into cow's eggs that had been stripped of their nuclei. The process created embryos which were then implanted into a surrogate cow. The same process was used to create Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal.
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Science, Rebecca Boyle, animals, bullfights, cloning, reproductive cloningSeveral news outlets reported last year on the efforts of a Spanish farmer to clone his prized bull, but this is not the same experiment. That bull's name was El Alcalde, which means "the mayor."
Torrent told AP the accomplishment could pave the way for a "tissue bank" to save endangered species. Gene banks already exist in several countries, but they usually involve frozen semen from various animals.
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Few things, for one, it'll probably still experience significant telomere shortening and experience early aging (like dolly). Second... just an opinion.. but it is pathetic that bull fighting was the motivation for this, forcing animals to fight for our amusement is just barbaric.
So does this mean that the first human to be cloned will be a matador?
Let's clone a guy who was fatally gored, so we can watch that "again and again".
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True, cloning animals to slaughter seems needlessly exspensive. Cloning female animals with desirable traits (like the Bull's mother) can be used to increase the number of propigators of those traits (since offspring do not suffer the premature aging).
The Spanish don't want "fierce" bulls for what they call "fighting". If a bull ever wins a bull fight, it is slaughtered and so arre all of its offspring.
I think that we need to clone a bear that eats hikers and set up an obstacle course of man eating, cloned bears
"Got Milk?" wouldnt be pleasant so they settled on "Got". Glass (tube) or other dish but when I heard the phrase "Spanish Scientist cloning fighting bulls" I thought there would be a dirty video included.
Poor little guy.
Why ARE human beings so stupidly cruel?
Would have been better to spend the dough trying to
figure that out.
Here a P.S. to my previous thought. MAYBE we should
try to clone scientists with just a little bit of ethical
smarts and empathy, rather than these current Frankenstein/Mengela - ish types that seem to be everywhere
today.
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