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Scientists make monkeys glow, cure AIDS

Harlequin

Harlequin

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(just kidding about the AIDS)

Scientists have genetically modified primates to make them glow green and pass on the change to their children.

Though primates modified to generate a glowing protein have been created before, these are the first to keep the change in their bloodlines.

Future genetic modifications to primates could aid efforts to cure such diseases as Parkinson's.

The "transgenic" marmosets, created by a Japanese team, have been described in the journal Nature.

The work raises a number of ethical questions about deliberately exposing a bloodline of animals to such diseases.

Scientists have managed to modify the genes of many living organisms in recent years, ranging from bacteria to mice.

Mice have been particularly useful experimental models for studying a wide range of human diseases as modified genes are passed on from parents to progeny.

However, mice are not useful for some human diseases because they are not sufficiently similar to produce effects that are meaningful to human disease. Studies of mice with Alzheimer's disease, for example, were stymied simply because their brains were too small to scan at sufficient resolution.
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Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8070252.stm

I think this is interesting and potentially useful. gogogo discuss.
 
Oh man this is gonna be so embarassing.
'Granpa! Granpa! How did they ever cure AIDS?'
'With glowing monkeys.'
'Are you sure Alzheimer's doesn't exist anymore.'
 
Dang, the Japanese did it. They're so awesome. And I bet at least one of you guys here would think a glowing green monkey would be just so kawaii.
 
D:

Poor monkeys...

They can never go home.

Still, that really does sound kawaii! And I have to admit I'd like to see one...but maybe not have one, because they bite.
 
The new Glow-in-the-Dark monkey! Never lose your pet monkey in the dark again! :3

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Not for me it wouldn't. Imagine trying to go to sleep like that. Phoo -.-
I'd like to see a glowing monkey though. Especially a Marmoset Waah 83
 
I think that glowing is a small price to pay to eradicate horrible diseases that plague mankind. I think that a nice trade off is necessary.
 
No because that's been integrated in language for the past hundred years or so
and doesn't sound retarded.
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well uh

what do you think people were saying about "je ne sais quoi" a hundred years ago before it was integrated into the language?

and uh

i personally think "je ne sais quoi" sounds stupider than "kawaii". like, i dunno, bit pretentious. but w/e, we all know that France is the centre of the world.

:/

god i cannot believe that i am defending use of the word "kawaii". next thing you know i'll start reading Naruto.
 
Saying random French words in the middle of an otherwise ordinary English sentence can be irritating too!
Inserting words from some other language into writing is stupid unless the writer is very talented (eg Nabokov, Wilde). Je ne sais quoi was probably introduced because it perfectly expresses, well, je ne sais quoi. Though if you have the chance, saying 'you know what' also works, albeit less well.

Kawaii is not like Je ne sais quoi because it is a direct translation of cute and therefore does not need to be introduced into our vocabulary since the world already exists and expresses itself perfectly.

Anyway I'd rather die than have Kawaii become common use.
 
Vladimir Putin's LJ said:
Saying random French words in the middle of an otherwise ordinary English sentence can be irritating too!
Inserting words from some other language into writing is stupid unless the writer is very talented (eg Nabokov, Wilde). Je ne sais quoi was probably introduced because it perfectly expresses, well, je ne sais quoi. Though if you have the chance, saying 'you know what' also works, albeit less well.

Kawaii is not like Je ne sais quoi because it is a direct translation of cute and therefore does not need to be introduced into our vocabulary since the world already exists and expresses itself perfectly.

Anyway I'd rather die than have Kawaii become common use.
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yeah that's pretty much my view on the matter. kawaii should never become common use ever. ever ever ever.

(plus, English has lots of French words and phrases - fiancé, champagne, other stuff I don't really care to list)
 
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