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Originally Posted by Rudey
The fact of the matter is that people don't realize that [size-4]genetic manipulation[/size] has been most prevalent in dog breeding. Forget about vegetables and human babies. Dogs have been bred to achieve certain traits, irregardless of how it affects society or their own health (ie some dogs have severe health problems and shorter lives but look a certain way for their owners).
Is that the truth? Yes. Is it irritating? I don't care.
Now there is absolutely no reason to breed a dog to be able to attack and kill better. You can have that same love for a dog regardless of the breed. it's OK.
-Rudey
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So what are WE all calling genetic manipulation? Series of brother sister matings somewhat like Mendel's "flowering pea pods"? Or are we talking insertion of DNA or shRNA or stablized microRNA fragments into the zygote/blastocyst stage to make transgenics or knockout dogs? Cloning dogs has not been proven to be overly difficult, some breeds, like Beagles are easy. Maybe pitbulls are similar? I don't know?
But, I would not want to make transgenic pitbulls with anything added to them. A safer way to genetically modify them is injecting them with a disabled virus with an over-expression casette.
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