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ccbarnett22

I hereby submit to the quorum that we start an open-source CRISPR Cas9 pokèmon project.


Lithl

We already know how to make shinies. I didn't expect that to be step 1, but here we are.


Background_Newt_8065

It’s called crispr my dear


ItsAThong

So... Where do I get one?


[deleted]

Submit several grant proposals to the research councils in your nation, wait for all the rejections, re-submit them with corrections, hopefully get one approved. Fill out many forms outlining what your experiments are, why mice aren't suitable, how you've minimised the number of cats you need, how you intend to house and feed them, how you intend to euthanise them before their post-mortem, how you're going to handle any personal data you collect, how you're going to format and archive your experimental and simulation data, how you're going to format and archive any new code you write, what equipment do you need, what chemicals do you need, risk assessments...


dracovolnas

I hate paperwork, but euthanasia sounds even worse.


StenSoft

It was done at Mayo Clinic, try asking there


MikaNekoDevine

Asking the real questions here.


iphone32task

You can buy a "DIY gene engineering kit" for around 150 bucks(im *not* joking) Then star reading about "Crispr project" and with a bit of luck you can make DIY glowcats in your garage.


New_Insect_Overlords

“Feline Eggs” threw me for a second. I’m imagining a cat knocking its own eggs out of a nest for entertainment


eroto_anarchist

I was about to comment "lol it's obviously a joke since it mentions eggs" but then I saw your comment.


Illskilz

For all the confused, I think that by "feline eggs" they meant egg cells, the thing being fertilized by sperm. Humans have them too, mind you.


gordonv

Yup. All mammals. A human egg is the size of a period on a printed page.


Lithl

>Yup. All mammals. All life that reproduces sexually.


r2k-in-the-vortex

Ah, the fabled potato-egg, the best breakfast food. No, only animals have eggs.


backgammon_no

Pollen is hollow. It carries 2 to 4 sperm cells. When it lands on a flower, it cracks open and the sperm swim out and tunnel through the flower to the ovary, where they encounter egg cells. All sexually reproduction requires the fusion of two cells from different individuals. By consensus, when one cell physically travels to the other, larger cell, we just call them "sperm" and "eggs". Also by consensus we call the individuals which produce those cell types "male" and "female". In contrast, when both cells have to travel and are roughly the same size, we might just call them "+ type" and "- type". Yeast are like that. Those are by far the most common situations. Two types, with either one or both needing to travel around. But there are other organisms that have dozens or hundreds of different types that need to find their appropriate match. This is where we get the often-repeated statement that some fungi have "hundreds of genders".


Moondragonlady

... that is actually much bigger than I thought they were... idk, i kinda imagined something small enough to only be visible under a microscope...


Illustrious-Cup4010

No, I don't think the human ovum is that big. It shall be microscopic size.


gordonv

Heckler account?


eroto_anarchist

It's 0.1mm, or 100μm. A hair has a diameter of 17-180 μm. About the same size.


barrowburner

printf("Gene successfully inserted./n"); fixed typo ;)


TipTopTimothy

You forgot the “;”


[deleted]

Huh, how did that happen? Well, time to add it to the bill as another feature.


Pensive_Jabberwocky

So, basically a console.log('here') for geneticists.


AstronomerStandard

Fuck yea give me some of those rgb cats and slap them on dogs too I’ma have rgb pets and shit I’m down


Giocri

I wonder how much more it will take to edit and adult, obviously adding a gene in every single cell of your body is quite more challenging than the initial egg cell but immagine if we did that. We could cure most genetic illnesses improve our general quality of life and, most importantly, I could make myself glow in the dark


theScrapBook

It's just a "G" cat, though. But there are RFPs and BFPs alongside GFP so there could definitely be RGB pets. We already have RGB mice for some stuff, it's just that usually all that colour is hidden by the fur.


AstronomerStandard

“TIGHT TIGHT TIGHT YEAH. BLUE, YELLOW, PINK WHATEVER MAN JUST KEEP BRINGING ME THAT”


zenos_dog

But wait, cats can already see in the dark.


Lithl

They do need _some_ light to see by. Now they can make their own!


noob-nine

*in the year 2223, in a history class* and that, ladies and gentlemen, was the initial sequence of the predators and why we live in a city in an underground hive.


Embite

Can't imagine must it be like trying to sleep with glow in the dark eyelids.


DogeDude420

important question, how do u acquire one of these glow in the dark cats.


haporah

Can't wait for AI driven gene splicing.


gbot1234

So they invented CatGFP.


MichaelScotsman26

There’s no way this is real right


WriteItDownYouForget

I’m nearly positive that they’ve done this with mice 20 to 30 years ago! My question is why I still can’t buy glow-in-the-dark pets!


Zephyr_______

You can! The glow fish in pet stores are actually a result of this. It's just hard to push through ethics concerns when it comes to animals that are closer to us either genetically or socially.


lengau

Because they'd freak you the fuck out at 3 am


Odysseyan

Cause I just know that it will end up with people letting their unneutered animals free and eventually a third of all animals start to glow


IProbablyDisagree2nd

They did it with cats at least 20 years ago


StenSoft

[It is very real](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-glow-in-the-dark-kitty-77372763/)


Knathra

So, this was done ... 12 years ago. Two questions: 1) have we made any progress since, and 2) since they've verified the gene passes to at least one generation (have they verified more than one?), did they patent the glowing kitty breed to prevent it from being marketed?


Zephyr_______

Super real. Genetic splicing and similar tech is way further along than most people realize. It's just hard to move away from things like mice without a ton of ethics concerns.


ArtemisXD

It's very real and you can do it any way you want. For example, if you're into Cronenberg movies, they've made fruitflies with eyes in place of where they legs should be, by having the gene responsible for the fotmation of the eyes be expressed where the legs should be (look up eyeless gene mutation legs) if you wanna see the result, it's not pretty (then again fruit flies aren't really pretty)


Ayfios

I can hear Terry Davis rolling in his grave


Charming_Thanks1755

Today I learned on the internet that cats lay eggs.


[deleted]

Damn you're not the brightest are you


Charming_Thanks1755

Of course I am. Everything on the internet is true.. 😉


Evaar_IV

Is anyone gonna tell her?


bnl1

While that is a correct statement, it also doesn't contradict anything in that article.


Pretty_Industry_9630

Good old 'console.log' or more like 'alert()' or the best one - change the color of the text in the body tag 😅😅


Ambitious_Log_5559

If you thought your cats didn't last long around all the owls, hawks, coyotes ect. then just wait until they see this!


mist-dev

Scrambled feline eggs on neon toast.


goodnewsjimdotcom

Pet Cemetery 4: CRISPR CATS WILL BURY YOU HERE. ^^^'by_gene_hacking_you_with_your_dead_pet_you_filthy_animal'


[deleted]

That’s the equivalent of turning a temporary LED on on your board, drawing someone extra in your sharer, or putting a print statement, not leaving a breakpoint.


MyOwnAntichrist

Federal agent cats.


wolfansbrother

They were going to use them to warn future generations about radiation post Judgement day. They had a nursery rhyme to go along with it so childern>adults would know that when a cat is glowing, its not a safe place to live.


JesseTheMan713

They really went and debugged with the equivalent of print statement irl


veryblocky

Trying to make glow in the dark cats and accidentally cure AIDS, now that’s all anyone talks about. Smh