• You are viewing the forum as a Guest, please login (you can use your Facebook, Twitter, Google or Microsoft account to login) or register using this link: Log in or Sign Up

Fluoro fish

Lisa_Perry75

Member
Joined
17 Oct 2007
Messages
777
Location
Southampton
Hi there,
My coursework is to do an 1000 word report on Green Fluorescent Protein and came across this webpage.
http://www.conncoll.edu/ccacad/zimmer/GFP-ww/cooluses16.html

To the right hand side it shows cool uses of GFP and its analogs (similar function different primary structure). It desccribes the factual information about cloning and why it is done a bit, so I hope some people may find it interesting.
 
No I'm not agreeing with the sale of any of these items, just that the research is initially done for the good of mankind. Such as the research into mouse neurons and mapping. I just don't like it when people go along with what the media say and comment "humans shouldn't play god etc".

Just thought the information would give unbiased information as to what people have researched and developed and why. Not the sensationalist view the media gives.
 
BUT.

If humans didnt play god then the world would not be overcrowded. not have as many fuel using items etc. etc.

medicine is good for people we know but it will also make life hard for people we do not know yet (due to more peeps being alive)

andy
 
SuperColey1 said:
BUT.

If humans didnt play god then the world would not be overcrowded. not have as many fuel using items etc. etc.

medicine is good for people we know but it will also make life hard for people we do not know yet (due to more peeps being alive)

andy

And you almost certainly wouldn't be alive to make that comment as many of your ancestors would have died.

You can't blame scientific progress for the fact that we have abused it. You should be thankful that we have made the progress we have and disappointed we aren't putting more money into making more that could solve the many problems we have looming in the near future.

Personally I think the use of pigments to highlight genetic transplants (which is how this gene was first used) is far better than tagging them with antibiotic resistance which is the standard method used. Adding them to things like danios is unlikely to ever cause major problems as any that got out would be rather easy targets, especially for nocturnal predators...
That doesn't mean they should be allowed to be released though as they will carry many alien diseases as all tropical fish can.
 
Back
Top