Future Ben

“this exciting but somewhat risky project.” -futureBen’s committee

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Company profile

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Genetic Savings and Clone offers to clone your prized cats for $32,000. Instead of transfering the nucleus from the donor to an egg this company tranfers over the packaged DNA. The idea behind Chromatin Transfer, I presume, is that the epigenetic milleu of the egg nucleus properly regulates the donor DNA to develop properly.

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What is interesting about this company isn’t so much the technology, or even if its a good idea to clone a cat when there are so many up for adoption. What interests me is that its a biotech company that deals in a luxury item. At what point will geneticly modified animals become affordable?(If you call $32,000 affordable.) The initial overhead would be much higher, but once a new line was developed it could be bred normaly. Yeah, right. The company that did that would be legislated right out of existence.

posted by futureBen at 7:48 pm  

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