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Reply to comment by CappinPeanut in Back in the late 90s, I remember hearing that scientists “cloned a sheep”. What actually happened with the cloning, and what advancements have been made as a result of that? by foxmag86
From the Wikipedia article linked above:
>she had a form of lung cancer called ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma, also known as Jaagsiekte, which is a fairly common disease of sheep and is caused by the retrovirus JSRV.
So it was a viral infection, not a genetic issue.
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Reply to comment by [deleted] in Bats use same techniques as death metal singers to vocalize, study finds by IslandChillin
If you read the article it explains that bats and humans both have a structure called "false vocal folds" which can be used to make sounds as an alternative to the true vocal cords. These false vocal cords are what humans use to produce the growls in heavy metal (this has been known for a long time), and what bats use to vocalise (this has just been discovered).
Regarding your second point, if you think all research needs to be "for" something, then I can't help you.
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Reply to comment by promise-isa in TIL: If you cut 2 different sponges up, disaggregate them (push them through a sieve), and mix the 2 cell-slurries together - the sponge cells reassociate with their own cells, but not cells of the other species. This is being studied to understand tissue repair and transplant rejection. by Geek_Nan
To be fair, the answer to that question is, for most people, not "sea sponges". Cloths and brushes were far more common.