If this case is successful I wonder if competition law will be used in other markets to allow cloning of race horses.
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Could do. Long term they might even be cloning humans for sport. Maybe we'll see clones of Messi, Pele and Maradona appear in the same team having been bread in a laboritory somewhere under the Etihad.
God knows what its coming to, people seem to be pretty passive when it comes to fighting new technology....
Anyone see the footage of the dead rapper Tupac Shakur being 'brought back to life' in the form of a hologram performing at a music festival last week?
Wont be long before they're bringing all the old favourites back (probably in the name of 'charity' first to greece the wheels).... imagine Live Aid 2020 with The Beatles, Elvis, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, The Doors.... you name it.
God knows what its coming to, people seem to be pretty passive when it comes to fighting new technology....
Anyone see the footage of the dead rapper Tupac Shakur being 'brought back to life' in the form of a hologram performing at a music festival last week?
Wont be long before they're bringing all the old favourites back (probably in the name of 'charity' first to greece the wheels).... imagine Live Aid 2020 with The Beatles, Elvis, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, The Doors.... you name it.
FFS.I just hope that the Quarter Horse Society and the HRA etc. ban cloning.There are many issues with cloning e.g.
1.Cloned offspring tend to be larger than their natural counterparts and have abnormally large organs which can lead to breathing, blood-flow and other problems. The problem is, until the animal is at least partially developed in the womb,it isn't possible to determine if it will have this issue or not.
2.At the ends of each chromosome is a DNA sequence called a Telomere.As an animal ages, the telomere gets shorter.The shorter the telomere,the older the cell and the less able it is to divide.Some clones have been born with longer than normal telomeres and live longer lives than normal.Some are born with shorter telomeres like Dolly the sheep.They live shorter lives than normal.However,scientists cannot control telomere length in clones and don't yet understand why some clones have short telomeres whilst others have longer ones.
At the end of the day,it seems cruel to allow a cloned animal to be born whilst the science it relies on is at its current state of understanding.
I'm not against science but I most definitely am against allowing cloned horses to be registered as 'Normal' horses.
Thoroughbreds are not allowed to be registered if they went through artificial insemination - clones or not. That's the way it should stay IMHO.
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1.Cloned offspring tend to be larger than their natural counterparts and have abnormally large organs which can lead to breathing, blood-flow and other problems. The problem is, until the animal is at least partially developed in the womb,it isn't possible to determine if it will have this issue or not.
2.At the ends of each chromosome is a DNA sequence called a Telomere.As an animal ages, the telomere gets shorter.The shorter the telomere,the older the cell and the less able it is to divide.Some clones have been born with longer than normal telomeres and live longer lives than normal.Some are born with shorter telomeres like Dolly the sheep.They live shorter lives than normal.However,scientists cannot control telomere length in clones and don't yet understand why some clones have short telomeres whilst others have longer ones.
At the end of the day,it seems cruel to allow a cloned animal to be born whilst the science it relies on is at its current state of understanding.
I'm not against science but I most definitely am against allowing cloned horses to be registered as 'Normal' horses.
Thoroughbreds are not allowed to be registered if they went through artificial insemination - clones or not. That's the way it should stay IMHO.
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