Cenk Uygur
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Scientists Create SUPER DOGS
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October 26, 2015
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8:06Now PlayingChinese scientists are performing genetic experiments on dogs to make them more muscular. The researchers are hoping that this practice will help them find a cure for Parkinson’s disease. Cenk Uygur, Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show), Lissette Padilla, and Kelly Carlin hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
Do you think there are any other reasons the scientists are doing this? Could it lead to genetic manipulation of humans? Let us know in the comments below.
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“Get ready for designer dogs.
Researchers in China have created the first dogs whose DNA was modified by gene editing.
By tweaking a dog’s DNA to cut out a gene for the muscle-limiting protein myostatin, they created a beagle with twice the normal amount of muscle, they reported last week in the Journal of Molecular Cell Biology.
As MIT Technology Review reported, the researchers plan to tweak the DNA of dogs to make them develop diseases similar to Parkinson's and muscular dystrophy, so they can study how these diseases work.
Beagles are commonly used in medical research because they share similarities with humans in their physiology, anatomy, and metabolism, the researchers wrote in the study.”
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