Japanese scientists have successfully created fertile female clones of a male rat, who can have healthy offspring when breeding with the original male rat.
https://www.iflscience.com/gene-editing-technique-produced-fertile-female-clones-from-male-mice-in-strange-and-fascinating-experiment-that-could-help-endangered-species-84437
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sanitation@lemmy.today · 27 pts · 7d
SillyMe@piefed.social · 12 pts · 7d
helpline recover critically endangered species.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5d
Because ego of Musk, Suckerberg, et al.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d
churrodestroyer@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 7d
I want to be excited about this but I don't expect the offspring to carry a lot of genetic diversity. This is highly complicated inbreeding but with even fewer genes than normal.
sanitation@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 7d
Why would they run this experiment anyways?
BeanGoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 7d
Possibly as a way to repopulate nearly endangered species that may not have viable females to reproduce normally?
Grimy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7d
Northern white rhinoceros have only two females left!
NathanDerWeise@feddit.org · 1 pts · 7d
To prove the cloned offspring is viable/fertile?
Tikitimebomb@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 7d
Where the fuck is Jeff Goldblum to explain the ethics?
Cypher@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 7d
Busy with his clone apparently
IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5d
He’s the least surprising person to do this tbh
NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 7d
What the fuck
altphoto@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 7d
They can cone me into a hottie that can have sex with me to make others.... I can be a mitochondrial mother!
starchylemming@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 6d
i can accept cloning alright. even the gender bending. but i draw the line with my suspension of disbelief at making you a hottie
altphoto@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 6d
We could all be hotties!
CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 7d
This is how you create a royal line in 3 generations
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 7d
The king and his princess having an incestuous boy king child? Sounds about right
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5d
King Incel the First
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 5d
The Habsburgs send their regards.
remon@ani.social · 4 pts · 5d
Looking forward to the "I fell in love with a clone of myself and now we're starting a family!" anime announcement.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 7d
Everything after the comma 😳
pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 5d
Imagine somebody create a clone of you with opposite sex, then you both make a baby together.
IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5d
No thanks