{"id":2278,"date":"2009-04-27T07:28:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T11:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2009-04-24T09:53:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T13:53:56","slug":"suuure-theyre-for-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2278","title":{"rendered":"Suuure They&#8217;re for Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ruppy.jpg\" alt=\"Ruppy\" title=\"Ruppy\" width=\"425\" height=\"105\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2279\" srcset=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ruppy.jpg 425w, http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ruppy-150x37.jpg 150w, http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ruppy-300x74.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Members of the team that created <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn7785-worlds-first-canine-clone-is-revealed.html\">Snuppy<\/A>, the first cloned dog, have now added an anemone gene to cloned dogs to create four transgenic glow-in-the-dark beagles.<\/p>\n<p>They claim that this is the first step in creating &#8220;disease model&#8221; dogs to use for research into human diseases, but other scientists are less certain that dogs will ever see widespread use.  Dog cloning is very inefficient&#8211;only 1.7% of the embryos came to term&#8211;and the team was also unable to control where the anemone gene was inserted into the dog&#8217;s genome.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I can definitely see these dogs being highly sought-after pets.  Who wouldn&#8217;t want a beagle you can find in a power outage?<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn17003-fluorescent-puppy-is-worlds-first-transgenic-dog.html\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the team that created Snuppy, the first cloned dog, have now added an anemone gene to cloned dogs to create four transgenic glow-in-the-dark beagles. They claim that this is the first step in creating &#8220;disease model&#8221; dogs to use for research into human diseases, but other scientists are less certain that dogs will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2283,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/2283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}