Dolly, the first cloned sheep, put to sleep
 

She had an incurable lung disease, and premature arthritis. I just learned about it from SomethingAwful's article this Sunday.

This is a serious question, and I'm only asking because I don't know a sheep's natural lifespan offhand.

Do you think she died because she was getting old, or because the cloning process possibly did have some defects?

It's something interesting to discuss, I believe.




Hopefully this won't turn into a "You're gay" "No, you are, you homo" thread.

Current cloning technique causes the clones to age like twice as fast as a normal creature. This is most likely what happened to the sheep.

You're gay

NOW THAT WAS UNCALLED FOR!!!!!!!!!! >: >: >:

So do you think that means that the first human clone they've been talking about (indeed if it's real) will age twice as quickly?

And Egon is the man lol

No, you are, you homo

Chojin, I think you're beginning to love me. Honestly.

You're gay

And weren't you busting other newbies for that? ::chuckles::

To see someone run out of ideas. Saddening.

Please be a character, please be a character, please be a character...

Funny, I was thinking the same thing about most of you people. If the way you treat newbies (hazing thrown out the window) is any indication of how you treat new people in real life, I imagine a supermodel walking up to you, asking you for a date, and you screaming down the street at her "FUCK OFF NEWBIE"

Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.

And of course, sooner or later, I expect a pseudo-witty reply of the kind. Or one that's equal bits crude, involving a 4 letter word of some sort. By the way, I'd make sure I was looking over my shoulder if I were you when I was typing it. Wouldn't want to get sent to beddy-bye without supper, ya know.

NOBODY CARES ABOUT WHAT YOU SAY :)

Correction: YOU don't care. And I don't remember God parting the clouds and saying "This Guy MATTERS".

Well, I do that, but only because supermodels are constantly coming up to me and trying to distract me from whatever I am doing. I used to be polite and have sex with them just to shut them up, but it gets annoying after a while. Why can't they just leave me the hell alone?

animal magnetism, you sly dog

Premature Death by Cloning
 

FS is right. Dolly was 6 years old, and of course a normal lifespan would been 12. Now if we can only wish that them ratfuckin' bastard Raelians die of premature aging as well!!! - >:

I don't know if they have ever figured out why Dolly aged so fast, but I wouldn't be surprised that it has something to do with telomeres (the ends of chromosomes that shorten as one ages). Also, you'd get more harmful mutations as DNA ages. It's as if there is some biological clock that you can't reset by nuclear transfer (cloning).

damn, that sounds almost like the tagline for a sci-fi movie lol

No, you are, you homo

cloning today, is done by putting the nucleai (I have NO idea how to spell that) of a normal human's cell in the eggcell of a female. the clones have therefore already aged as much as the original host when they are born. so, the clones die around the same time the original dies.