Designer Mice Made to Order 382
blackbearnh writes "CNN is reporting about the world of designer mice. No, not the kind you click, the kind that scamper around and eat cheese. An effort is underway to produce mice with each of the 20-25,000 individual mouse genes "knocked out", which could lead to novel new treatments for humans. It turns out that after fully sequencing the mouse genome, the little fellas are almost identical to humans. From the article: 'A mouse with arthritis runs close to $200; two pairs of epileptic mice can cost 10 times that. You want three blind mice? That'll run you about $250. And for your own custom mouse, with the genetic modification of your choosing, expect to pay as much as $100,000.'"
would you? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, and Would you like to have fries with it?
Laser Mouse? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You've got to be kidding me? (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm... that's an idea... (Score:3, Funny)
Obj HHGttG Reference (Score:3, Funny)
Leopard Skin (Score:4, Funny)
Profit! (Score:5, Funny)
2. !!!!!!
3. Sell three blind mice for $250
4. Profit!
Wistful thinking (Score:5, Funny)
Unless you pay me the sum of One Million Dollars!!
How much.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Hmmm... that's an idea... (Score:2, Funny)
Re: Designer Mice Made to Order (Score:5, Funny)
That would really save me a lot of trouble...
I prefer Mozzerella.
Thanks in advance.
Intelligent Design (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hmmm... that's an idea... (Score:2, Funny)
2) Release into basement.
3) ???
4) Profit (well, not losing money getting some super mouse built to order)!
Re:No more concern about endangered species? (Score:2, Funny)
No, you fool! If you do that, NOTHING will stop them! We'd be doooooomed!!!
Re:would you? (Score:5, Funny)
Re: Genetically modified mice
Dear Sir,
I understand that you are in the business of breeding custom-designed mice. I find this quite fascinating, as I require custom animals for my experiments. Do you, by chance, have any specimens which are flexible, clawless and agoraphobic?
Regards,
R. Gere
Designer mice? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You've got to be kidding me? (Score:1, Funny)
Although obese mice are pretty darn cute. Pic. [wisc.edu] More. [google.com]
Re:Uhmmm.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:special mice ... really special (Score:3, Funny)
With that kind of mouse, you'll have to replace your cat more often. Not to mention walls, fences and your neighbours' Volvo.
Re:Uhmmm.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:would you? (Score:2, Funny)
Just order a dozen of the epileptic ones and get some nail clippers.
dammit (Score:2, Funny)
Re:would you? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Uhmmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
Inhumane?! Science being cold, calculating and pitiless? Say it isn't so!
Don't worry about it, when the tests are done, they cure the arthritic mice, put the anti-seizure chip in the epileptic mice, and tiny little bionic eyes in the blind mice. Then they send them to a local farm and release them in a field. Where it's nice and sunny and they can run and laugh and frolic all day long.
But usually they last about 15 minutes before an owl comes by and eviscerates it. A lot of owls hang out by that field, we're not sure why.
Re:Mouse human? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:special mice ... really special (Score:4, Funny)
Gives new meaning to "Are you a Man or a Mouse!?" (Score:2, Funny)
They've got it backwards (Score:5, Funny)
Could I get a mouse with Tourette Syndrome? (Score:2, Funny)
I would! (Score:3, Funny)
But even more importantly, how much for a mouse than learns Visual Basic as its first programming language?
But what I *really* want is a USB mouse that will go where I tell it to and click itself. How much for that?
Re:No more concern about endangered species? (Score:3, Funny)
Obviously the solution then is to engineer condors with the ability to shoot back. I would have expected nature to come up with that one by now.
Re:special mice ... really special (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Isn't it more cruel or inhumane.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Isn't it more cruel or inhumane.. (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps, then.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Perhaps, then.. (Score:2, Funny)
They already can, but think they're too cool for it.