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China is using technology to create a clone-army of police dogs. Police dogs require many years of training and training is not always successful. China is working on creating clones of a specially selected genius police dog that will reduce training times by years.

The specially selected dog's clone is currently undergoing training and testing as part of the "Super-Dog" program. The experts expect the clones to also be award-winning geniuses like the original dog.


https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3002346/chinas-first-cloned-police-dog-reports-duty

>> No.10484411

>>10484403
big if true

>> No.10485552

>>10484403
That's one of the reason why I am studying Applied Biology. I hope one day to be allowed to use our tools to help humans to have the best genetic tendencies for health and iintelligence. China is of course a tyranny but they understood the importance of genetic engineering if we fail to use our advancements we are going to fall behind.

>> No.10485785

>>10485552
i hope you begin practicing now, regardless of western governments ineptitude, otherwise we will be speaking mandarin in 50years.

please don't wait to be "allowed". the only advantage the west has over the insect like chinese is individuals do things without direction from authority.

>> No.10485942

>>10484403
Don't clones have health issues?

>> No.10485972

>>10484403
Stupid Chinese commies. Why would you do this? Nicholas Taleb, the smartest person on the planet, has conclusively proven intelligence doesn't mean anything.
You just need to socialise dogs in the right way and they can be anything they want to be.

>> No.10486002

>>10485942
If the procedure is done correct clones won't have health issues. Clones are just late stage-twins. The early cloning methods were quite risky but today the clinical methods are quite safe.

>> No.10486045

>>10484403

For thousands of years, breeders have been selectively breeding the smartest dogs in their liters. This method is probably better than cloning in many ways.

In theory, by cloning the smartest dog the best possible result is creating multiple copies of the same dog with no random mutations. In practice, the clones will (for sure) still get random mutations. Assuming the process is perfect, the dog they are cloning will still have had its DNA deteriorate over the course of its life because of aging.

Cloning will surely produce results that are comparable to inbreeding. I would not be surprised if this is even worse than trying to breed it with its own siblings. What they should have done is taken the award winning dog and mated it with another award winning dog.

This isn't the result of scientific research. This is just a brainlet police department using a commercially available service.

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10486090

>>10486045
>For thousands of years, breeders have been selectively breeding the smartest dogs in their liters. This method is probably better than cloning in many ways.
Not what humans have done. They've bred dogs that they liked and did the job they wanted them to do, which would be why dogs bred for difficult, cognitively demanding jobs are the smart ones. We haven't been explicitly choosing the smartest.
>Cloning will surely produce results that are comparable to inbreeding.
Inbreeding increases the number of homozygous runs. Cloning doesn't do that.
>What they should have done is taken the award winning dog and mated it with another award winning dog.
I wouldn't be surprised if they're doing that, but if you want to replicate an anomaly this is the surest way to do it. Good practice for when they want to clone the CCP leadership.
(There's probably some DNA floating around of Einstein, von Neumann, Newton, Leibniz... just imagine the Chinese agents going out and grave robbing to steal it..)

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>>10484403
well that sounds fun, an army of genetically engineered clone dogs

SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE !!!!!

>> No.10486142

>>10485785
Mandarin is bretty cool; shouldn't be afraid of Chinese food, anon.

>> No.10486146

>>10484403
They sound delicious

>> No.10486712

Well at least they're not eating these dogs. Not until they retire anyways

>> No.10487716

>>10484403
I'm happy for the chinese. I hope they take over.

>> No.10487755

>>10485552
Enjoy your "Ethical practices" as China proceeds to not give a fuck and roflstomp over you.

>> No.10488369

I think its genetic dead end dogs will not get any better only stay the same.
Its almost stupid
why not breed from the best keep more adaptable animal
Is it me or do all Chinese police dogs look the same.

>> No.10489104

>>10485785
>Asians are insects with no direction or creativity!
When will white people stop with this cope?
Probably never because it's the only thing they can cling to knowing that asians have higher IQs