it's a miracle! God creates human/animal hybrid life!!!

[dagon]

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so says mornac!  it's going to be like the garden of eden all over again only this time man will have a zebra-striped tail and cat eyes.  sooo exciting!

http://www.newsrake.org/index.php/topic,6310.msg111865.html#msg111865

peace

[johnhp]

The mind boggles.  One wonders what he thinks of the modern fishmato...the tomato with spliced fish dna to resist the cold.

[johnhp]

Better than a glow in the dark Jesus print....the jellyfishcat....

[DougRich]

Humans being members of the animal kingdom, "human/animal" is redundant.

[johnhp]

Humans being members of the animal kingdom, "human/animal" is redundant.

Yes...that is why i prefer referring to the two dna donors in the name...fishmato....jellyfishcat

[notoc]

Synthetic biology and the rise of the 'spider-goats'

Freckles looks like a perfectly normal kid

But Freckles is a long way from normal. She is an extraordinary creation, an animal that could not have existed at any point in history before the 21st century. She is all goat, but she has something extra in every one of her cells: Freckles is also part spider.

Freckles is the creation of Randy Lewis, a professor of genetics at Utah State University. The farm is a university outpost where they research modern farming techniques, teach animal husbandry and raise what are inevitably referred to as "spider-goats".Randy, like many of the other scientists here in Logan, Utah, has farming in his blood. So although a creature that is part goat, part spider might seem like an idea born of science fiction, as far as Randy is concerned it's simply advanced farming: breeding animals to produce things that we want.

"We're interested in dragline silk – the silk that spiders catch themselves with when they fall," he tells me in his midwest lilt. "It's stronger than Kevlar. It really has some amazing properties for any kind of a fibre."

In a sense, spider-goats are an extension of the farming we've been doing for 10,000 years. All livestock and arable has been carefully bred, each cross being a genetic experiment of its own. "The trouble is, you can't farm spiders," Randy says with an almost comic deadpan face. "They're very cannibalistic." He and his team took the gene that encodes dragline silk from an orb-weaver spider and placed it among the DNA that prompts milk production in the udders. This genetic circuit was then inserted in an egg and implanted into a mother goat. Now, when Freckles lactates, her milk is full of spider-silk protein.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jan/14/synthetic-biology-spider-goat-genetics

[DougRich]

I saw this movie.

[johnhp]