{"id":176,"date":"2008-08-18T05:17:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T05:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/08\/18\/on_cloning\/"},"modified":"2008-08-18T05:17:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T05:17:25","slug":"on_cloning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/08\/18\/on_cloning\/","title":{"rendered":"On cloning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usyd.edu.au\/labrats\/2008\/08\/still_got_it.html\">cloning<\/a> worked. <\/p>\n<p>\nSo when I saw<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.usyd.edu.au\/labrats\/nature\/kitkat.jpg\" alt=\"cute cat\" width=\"600\" height=\"329\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\non promotional materials from a certain company I&#8217;ve done business with, I was a bit perplexed.<\/p>\n<p>\nImmediately underneath was<\/p>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.usyd.edu.au\/labrats\/nature\/kitkat2.jpg\" alt=\"and the red-hot poker\" width=\"600\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nWhat&#8217;s the message here? They&#8217;re supplying reagents for cloning <del>the spawn of the devil<\/del> kittens? They&#8217;ll express kittens in an Eppendorf? They supply cat cDNA libraries?<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd if not, just what do they think the market demographic is? <\/p>\n<p>\nHint: we&#8217;re scientists. We&#8217;re hardcore. We don&#8217;t <em>do<\/em> kittens (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lablit.com\/article\/6\">sex<\/a> yes: kittens no. Except as raw materials).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My cloning worked. So when I saw on promotional materials from a certain company I&#8217;ve done business with, I was a bit perplexed. Immediately underneath was What&#8217;s the message here? They&#8217;re supplying reagents for cloning the spawn of the devil &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/08\/18\/on_cloning\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}