Memories in clone animals planting – is that possible?

The Chinese company Sinogene sold cloned Pets. In June, your first clone was born-cat. Soon Sinogene want to planting the clones memories. This is Serious? Or just a Marketing thing?

An immortal pet of this desire would like to let the Chinese company Sinogene for its customers. With the cloning of domestic animals, it wants to extend “the love between man and animal,” it says on the website of the company.

21. June Sinogenes first clone was born-cat. Like its predecessors, it is called Suan, Chinese for garlic. The Service cost Because Suans owner the equivalent of about 32,000 euros, writes the Chinese newspaper Global Times. On Sinogenes site, the cloning of dogs and horses is advertised.

Now the company wants to go, according to the Global Times, a step further, and the memories of the Original Tiers on the clone transfer. To do this, it wants to use “Artificial intelligence or brain-Computer interface technology,” announced the managing Director. The “or” already suggests that the plans are rather vague. On the website, the procedure is not offered so far, anyway.

Sinogen has also cloned the dog, Guozhi. Guo Zhi has appeared in numerous films.

What is memory?

The memories of an animal in another planting – is that even possible? To answer this we must first ask what a memory is, so Jason Kerr, managing Director of the neuroscience research Institute caesar.

To transfer memories such as “the smell of grandma’s pastries in the year 1979 is not possible,” says Kerr. Such a memory transfer, “we need to understand its neural Basis, i.e. how it is encoded in the brain”.

It had several tens of thousands of neurons estimated to be involved. From this understanding, the science is still far away. A cloned pet would not remember the voice of the owner, or his favorite toy.

Cat snuggles up to its owner

Successful Transmission in the case of snails

Currently it is even impossible, “to reproduce the learning process of a snail, or Fly through Artificial intelligence,” says neurobiologist David Glanzman of the University of California (UCLA).

To transfer the memories of more complex animals such as cats, dogs and horses, is therefore – at least so far – is completely unthinkable. Because while a snail has only about 20,000 nerve cells, for example, a cat has more than 760 million.

Nevertheless, it managed to Glanzman in a Team of scientists, a kind of reminder of a sea snail successfully transferred to another. To transplant, the researchers information carrier, so-called RNA molecules are annotated, of a snail in the other. The foreign RNA the recipient snail showed the withdrawal reflex, which was previously trained exclusively in the dispenser screw. The study was published in the journal eNeuro.

Even if these reflexes can be referred to the Retreat as a kind of reminder, miles is the science is still far away, to transfer the whole of the memories of an animal to another. With security this could not be achieved also by Artificial intelligence, says Glanzman. Who do this suggests that does not understand, in his opinion, “the enormous challenge of such a task”.

There is a Chance

Kevin Warwick of Coventry University is an expert in artificial intelligence. He is of a similar opinion, but he also sees Potential in this research: You could save “information about a sequence of movements and then try to reconstruct this,” he says.

If this be forced upon another brain, so Warwick, it could lead potentially to similar movements. In reality, this was not successful yet.

This technology should eventually succeed, it could help as Warwick, for example, patients re-learn movements after a stroke.

The plans of the Chinese company Sinogenes to memory transfer, turn out, according to the experts as the predominantly unrealistic. caesar-Director Jason Kerr goes even further. Apart from the ethical questions this research raises are Sinogenes plans “so far removed from reality that it can only be a Marketing ploy,” he says.

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  Of Dolly, CC, Mini-Winnie and Co

  Named after Dolly Parton

  The house of Dolly the sheep is the first clone of an adult mammal, was born on the 5th of July 1996. Dolly had no father, but three mothers – a sheep donated a body cell, another an Egg, and the surrogate mother was Dolly, finally. At the age of six, the famous sheep, was euthanized due to severe lung disease. It is stuffed in the National Museum in Edinburgh.

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  Of Dolly, CC, Mini-Winnie and Co

  Half horse, half donkey

  Idaho Gem, born in 2003, is the world’s first cloned mule. Not just any x-any: the “jewel of Idaho” is the genetic brother of award-winning Rennmaultiers. The cross of a domestic horse Mare with a donkey stallion is tough, durable and usually dying.

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  Of Dolly, CC, Mini-Winnie and Co

  Copied Cat

  “CC” is the name of the first cloned cat in the world. The Name of the 2001 Texas-born fur tangle is quite unspectacular for “carbon copy” -impact on carbon paper. Cat cloning has not been established, however, perhaps to the chagrin of many cat lovers, really as a commercial business.

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  Of Dolly, CC, Mini-Winnie and Co

  Five identical sisters

  Noel, Angel, Star, Joy and Mary came on the first Christmas day of 2001 in the case of PPL Therapeutics, the genetic engineering company, which had also in the case of cloning Dolly the sheep-the Finger in the game. The five healthy cloned piglets, so PPL, be prepared genetically so that their organs would be suitable without the risk of rejection for transplants for people.

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  Desert beauty

  The first cloned Camel came in 2009 at the Camel Reproduction Center in Dubai to the world. The goal: to get the genes of particularly valuable animals for breeding. Injaz (“achievement”) is the clone of a Camel slaughtered for its meat. The single-humped camels are popular in the Gulf States, also as beasts of burden and Rennkamele.

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  Of Dolly, CC, Mini-Winnie and Co

  Spanish Fighting Bull

  Spanish scientists introduced in 2010, the small Got, the first cloned fighting bull. Got was not intended for the bull-fighting arena, but as a breeding animal. His surrogate mother was a gentle Frisian Dairy cow.

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  Of Dolly, CC, Mini-Winnie and Co

  Monkey theatre

  In the case of the production of Dolly adult” cells were used “as a donor of genetic information. The rhesus monkey Tetra was created by embryo division. Scientists in the U.S. state of Oregon, presented in 2000, the first cloned monkey. Tetra is Greek for “four” – the researchers had planted various native animals four Embryos, but only Tetra survived.

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  Jackpot: A cloned pet

  A team of researchers in South Korea succeeded in 2005 to create the first clone dog in the world: Snuppy the Afghan hound. 2014 a Biotech company cloned in Seoul, another dog. This time a 12-year-old Dachshund has been copied, the English owner, had won the procedure in a contest. Came out Mini-Winnie. In the meantime, the company dog clones sold for 90,000 euros.

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  No Sex: of These animals clone themselves

  (K)a child without a Partner

  Sexual reproduction is a success, the concept of Evolution, which is also us, people well-known. If you want to have children, you need first of all a suitable Partner. Some animals have managed to dispense with the elaborate search for the “Right” completely – they are asexual and clone themselves.

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  No Sex: of These animals clone themselves

  A virgin cancer

  A recent example is the Mamorkrebs is. A wider interest in the freshwater cancer woke for the first Time in 2003. German biologists have found that the entire species consists of only females that clone themselves. Which had been observed in cancers never.

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  No Sex: of These animals clone themselves

  By Mutation to the clone

  How, exactly, the marble cancer has lost his sexuality is unclear. Genetic analyses have shown that it is closely related to a North American river type of cancer. Scientists suspect that this river is mutated cancers, in the 1990s, and to switch from the sexual asexual reproduction could.

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  No Sex: of These animals clone themselves

  Ideal for pioneers

  The big advantage of asexual reproduction: A female is enough to start a whole Population. The young white remote Gecko: He lives on the most remote Islands of the Pacific ocean and was washed well with plant residue. Each of the females would have been dependent on pairing with males, you would have received in case of doubt, never young.

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  No Sex: of These animals clone themselves

  Celibate for millions of years

  The Bdelloidae rotifers come from quite a long time without Sex since about 40 million years ago! In this long period, the environmental conditions have changed on earth, many times. The Bdelloidae still, is probably because they have added genes from other organisms in its DNA, for example bacteria or fungi.

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  No Sex: of These animals clone themselves

  Sex as an Option

  Mamorkrebse, Bdelloidae and virgin geckos always female. But there are also animals for which Sex is optional. An example of the Rainbow Whiptail Lizard, a species of lizard that lives in Central and South America. Some populations consist of only virgin females, other populations have Sex and live with males.

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  No Sex: of These animals clone themselves

  Captivity is the mother of invention

  The threshold of the self-cloning is not so high, show examples of animals that live in captivity. 2006 brought a virgin Komodo dragon females in the London Zoo, four male Young. To clones, it is not obvious. Nevertheless, the male descendants had the DNA of her mother.

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  No Sex: of These animals clone themselves

  The virgin in the Aquarium

  Also in the case of sharks it has come to births in captivity, often virgin. For example, in 2007, as a hammerhead shark in an Aquarium in the United States without a male Intervention to get pregnant and a female Cub on the world. Also Bamboo and Zebrahaie have been born small clones.

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  No Sex: of These animals clone themselves

  Men are now superfluous?

  In the case of mammals has never been observed in a virgin birth. Scientists suspect that the mechanisms behind the children get in us easy to complex. This is a good thing, because by means of sexual reproduction, the risk of harmful mutations is reduced. In addition, the new combination of genes gives us the ability to respond flexibly to new environmental conditions.

  Author: Sophia Wagner