« Al's slideshow | Main | Henry Jenkins' blog » GenPets Can this be real? GenPets offers bio-engineered pets with a one or two year life span. We use a process called "Zygote Micro Injection" which is quickly becoming a favourable method to combine DNA, or to insert certain proteins from different species. Most notably it was used in 1997 to splice mice with bioluminescent jellyfish (link) and has since been used to create glowing rabbits, pigs, fish, and monkeys (link). Since then, human DNA has been injected into rabbits, chimpanzees, spider DNA into sheep, and now, Genpets have arrived!(Okay, it's clearly not real, but – somebody put some real work into making a statement.) jon posted this at 8:38 AM |
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Posted by: gillo | June 23, 2006 9:30 AM
Either way this is way weird, i hope to GOD it is not real it looks spooky, with all the pets that are out there do we really need to artificaly make more of them?
Posted by: Kim | June 23, 2006 9:11 PM
The really wierd thing to me is the lack of mainstream press about this.. could it be that the powers that be are afraid of what could be a hot political issue right now?
Looks like this is real, and maybe even more real and widespread in the future.. it still doesn't seem entirely real - like I do not want to belive it...
wierd.
Posted by: Jessica | June 25, 2006 4:13 AM
They are a real toy, you can become a dealer. Checkout website!
Posted by: jm | June 25, 2006 9:06 PM