Chickenosaurus

[Mahonri]

Maybe I'm already late to the party.... but it was an interesting read...

Turn the tables on predators... they should have let them hatch!.. it's creating new life!


Chickenosaurus

 

[Meghalu]

That was definitely interesting. Thanks for the share.

 

[kathyinmo]

Well, from that picture, it looks like it DID hatch!

 

[Illia]

Am I the only one thinking "Hmm. . . . black chick single comb, light brown egg, clean legs. . . . Hmm, what breed. . . "

 

[GotGame]

Wow....spending millions of dollars in BS like that when people are dying of cancer. Overeducated idiots.

 

[stoneunhenged]

I didn't see a mention of the project cost in the article.

 

[aveca]

Quote:
austrlorpithicus LOL!

 

[phasianidae]

That geek needs to get a life.

 

[AinaWGSD]

Australorpithicus...LOVE it!

GotGame, at a glance it may seem like BS to alter chicken DNA so that the chicks develop snouts instead of beaks, but research like this IS the first baby step towards curing things like cancer (or, as this article suggested, birth defects). Studies like this give scientists more information on how the world works, which in the long run is essential to doing things like cure cancer or alzheimers. Sure, knowing how to turn a chicken's beak into a snout isn't going to cure any diseases. But knowing how to manipulate genes could have the potential to help scientists figure out how to create a biological remedy for many of the diseases that currently have no effective treatment.

 

[becky3086]

Oh I don't know. I am not sure how anyone could think that any science would be irrelevant when we got antibiotics from mold. I think under controlled conditions it would have been great to let them hatch too (and I am sure it there is a government agency somewhere, in some country doing just that). Who knows what kind of medical technology it might lead to?