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Related: About this forumMouse cloned from drop of blood
Scientists in Japan have cloned a mouse from a single drop of blood.
Circulating blood cells collected from the tail of a donor mouse were used to produce the clone, a team at the Riken BioResource Center reports in the journal Biology of Reproduction.
The female mouse lived a normal lifespan and could give birth to young, say the researchers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23068423
Space colonization here we come
MADem
(135,425 posts)themselves! Age is no impediment!
Very interesting!!!!!
Judi Lynn
(160,592 posts)Will take some time to absorb, for sure.
Thank you.
Javaman
(62,532 posts)Dude 1: I'm tired, I wish we had a horse so we could ride
Dude 2: Done.
Dude 2 reaches into his pack and pulls out a little jar. It's labeled "Instant Horse". He takes a pill out, throws it on the ground a poof! a horse appears.
Dude 1: awesome! hey wait, don't you have any Arabians?
Arthur C. Clarke once said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Minimum crew with blood samples from engineers, scientists, artists, musicians also with their consciousness/memories downloaded.
Arrive at planet, ..... instant population
Javaman
(62,532 posts)I see that being possible in the future.
As for right now, I would love to read that as hardcore Sci-Fi.