• Question: Are you atarting to clone other things with the animals.

    Asked by 534brna47 to Áine, Eoin, Ciarán on 11 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Ciarán O'Brien

      Ciarán O'Brien answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      No, cloning is very strictly controlled for safety and ethics reasons, and my work doesn’t really require it. I don’t think I’d do it even if I needed to, I really don’t like experimenting on animals.

      One of the guys in my lab though has been genetically modifying bacteria to see if they’d make good probiotics.

      Cloning bacteria is tricky but not too hard, cloning animals is really really difficult and expensive.

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