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Woman has dead pitbull cloned

February 18, 2008 By: Bolkie Category: animals, funny, medicine, odd, weird, weird science No Comments →

An American woman who cannot cope with the death of her dog is seeking ways for her deceased pitbull to be cloned. The South Korean Biotech Company RNL Bio has sent the woman an offer to clone her dog Booger for 150.000.

The woman, Bernann McKunney from California, was especially fond of the dog, because it had saved her life once when she was attacked by another dog. Though the other dog did manage to bite her arm off.

The poor animal died one and a half years ago. Mrs. McKunney had tissue from Booger’s ear frozen in by an American biotech firm. Now certain cells will be removed from from that tissue and injected in canine reproductive cells. These will be injected in 8 pitbull bitches.

According to RNL Bio, the success rate for cloning the dog is expected to be around 25 percent. Never before has a dog been cloned for commercial purposes.

If successful the South Korean company expects multiple additional orders for their technique. Demand is supposed to grow in the coming years. When this happens the price for a cloned dog can be lowered to 50.000 dollars.

Dolly, the famous cloned sheep

Turkish woman poses as physician for 10 years

February 17, 2008 By: Bolkie Category: funny, idiot, medicine, odd, sad, stupid, weird, weird science No Comments →

A woman in Turkey has worked as a medical doctor for ten years without ever having graduated from medical school. Turkish newspapers reported this stunning story on Saturday.

The woman’s family had been putting so much pressure on her to become a doctor that she never had the stomach to tell them she had dropped out of medical school. This made her decide to fake the whole thing.

For years she left home every morning carrying her medical school books with her. After that she faked her M.D. diploma. She even had herself registered as an M.D. at the healthcare registry. After this she worked at various hospitals and health care centers.

Even her husband never knew she wasn’t a real doctor. She had in fact studied all her medical school books to the letter. This might have allowed her to carry on with her scam for over ten years.

Want grandchildren ? Marry your cousin !

February 09, 2008 By: Bolkie Category: funny, idiot, odd, stupid, weird, weird science No Comments →

Marriages between distant cousins on Iceland seem to be far more productive then ‘normal’ marriages. On average more children and grandchildren are born as a result of marriages between men and women who are (distantly) related. This became clear after a study on the matter was published in the scientific magazine Science this week. Research was done under supervision of Agnar Helgason of biotech company deCode Genetics.

A study was made on all marriages on the island between 1800 and 1965. Surprisingly marriages between cousins in the third and fourth grade came out on top of the fertility scale. The researchers involved in the study suspect a biological reason is behind these figures. These cousins probably benefit from affinity within the family as well as a healthy amount of genetic mixture.

In many countries marriages and reproduction between cousins is strictly prohibited by law. The risk for diseases because of genetic resemblance is considered too large by scientists.

Big Mac biggest symbol of globalization

February 09, 2008 By: Bolkie Category: funny, odd, weird, weird science No Comments →

The Big Mac menu, the most famous dish of the American fast-food restaurant McDonalds, is composed of about twenty ingredients and is therefore the best symbol of globalization. This is according to South African researchers.

The scientists from the University of Stellenbosch have analyzed the ingredients of this menu, which exists of a hamburger, french fries and a cup of coffee.

“We have discovered that this is a meal containing over twenty different ingredients, with their roots tracing back over the entire globe. It includes potatoes, originating from South America, flour and onions from the Middle East, coffee from Ethiopia and mustard from India”.

According to John Wilson of the research team this shows that modern foods are more varied than foods from traditional societies: “ …that such a meal contains more then twenty different ingredients is very impressive, especially when one keeps in mind that some traditional communities use only 50 to 100 ingredients in their cooking”.

Pregnancy makes women forget

February 07, 2008 By: Bolkie Category: funny, odd, weird, weird science 2 Comments →

Researchers at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne have discovered some interesting stuff about pregnant women. The pregnancy is resulting in considerable amounts of amnesia. Scientists Henry and Peter Randell have tested the memories of thousands, both pregnant and non pregnant, women. The women carrying a baby appeared to have trouble remembering new information, unknown names and telephone numbers. Facts they had already known, however, they remembered without a problem.

Strangely enough, the memories of the tested women did not appear to return to the old levels after the labour. The researchers are still clueless to as why this is the case. But they do expect that a pregnancy can influence the women’s cognitive skills a great deal. They also suspect stress, insomnia and the preparation to a new life to be factors.