Nov 6 200820 Years Of Research For This?: Scientists Develop Way To Grow Blue Roses, People With Incurable Diseases Do Not Rejoice

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I think it should be:

Blue: this rose is clearly photoshopped due to the incorrect shadows and the resemblance to the blue flowers in the movie "Never Back Down", That or...

Blue: please toss my salad.

Either one

pew

"buy" should be "but" on the Orange rose line

Alright, if these guys can make a blue rose. They better be able to make me a Smurfette.

Now the Chinese have to think of a new metaphor. Damn science. Next thing you know money WILL grow on trees, and my dad will have NO excuse.

@2, I know of a hummer that could use a good Rimming. Oh wait, it has treads. Nevermind.

I thought was did something like this in Junior High... split a white rose stem, and dunk half in blue water, and the rose turns half blue. Geez, even kids already accomplished this.

@6 - what happen to your lines of "case mods"?

what about the time NASA spent $20 million on a pen that is writable in space when the Russians were using crayons?

That would be awesome if it didn't come with that retarded spare tire on the back. Really, who needs a spare tire for a rose? Stupid scientists. TIRE!

I'd write you a poem, but I'm such a queen I can't afford paper...ah woop boo doo

This post made me remember how much I've missed Dr. Octagon...

@9

They used pencils, not crayons. Why the f*** would anyone want to write down important material in space with a crayon? They wouldn't. Because they used pencils.

SWIMMIN' HOLE!

For relaxing times, make it Suntory time.

FAKE!!!

This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell its fake because the shadows are all wrong.

It looks like the flower Max gave Baja in the movie Never Back Down. Except the one in the movie was yellow, and was a carnation.

Holy crap! I read that too fast and I trhought it said "have been implanted with a gene that simulates the synthesis of blue pigment in PENISES."

Who the holy hell wants a Blue Penis????

Wait...yeah, OK. Sign me up.

Did anyone notice the tire on the back? why the hell would you need that when you have treds? I like the blue paint job however.

Blue Rose? Pfft, Aww C'mon...scientist could be working on making Beast from the X-men. Bother me when you guys (and girls) make a glow in the dark rose.

Um, the picture in the blog post and the picture in the article aren't the same at all. It looks as though the roses they've been able to come up with are a more lavender color...which, while pretty, is NOT blue.

Also, they technically could use this research to enable science to successfully implant other genes into plants. Color's a good one to start with because you know right away if the gene took.

Oh, wait, I'm not on Fark and somewhat reasonable comments are not welcome here? Um, f***. Penis penis penis penis MARIO

Well I already have a blue penis, *wink*

I love this blog!!!

If you do not mind I will translate this blog in spanish.
Please if translation is forbidden by you or your team, please let me know to delete my post in my blog.

Regards

GW,
I do not know how a man that could win my heart with such touching blogs about Zelda, Metroid and all things geeky could be so off. Blue roses=girls do special Princess Leia in the gold bikini dance for you. I thought of all men you would know that. I must now evaluate my love of geeks. (**heart breaking**)

@19, you should know better than to try using logic here. Yes, genetically altering the color of flowers is just a stepping stone to more advanced genetic....advancements. these advancements could someday benefit man although probably not. Did I use the word "advance" enough?

Seems I'm 2 for 2 GW!

Things are only impossible until they're not.

"...to make them safe to grow in nature."

What exactly does that mean?

Speaking of not using logic...

If I were to acquire one of these and brought it to the top of the mountain, can I be trained by the League of Shadows to become Batman?

@25 Plants that have been genetically manipulated are not necessarily safe to grow in nature because of the impact they could have on the ecosystem. They could be harmful to say bees and insects. Their cross-pollination with other plants could have unsavory results. Not to get all "The Happening" but plants are not always benign, ie kudzu being introduced to the southern US.

@27

I wonder, then, what makes them so confident that this version is safe.

Hey, does anyone want to go smoke a little blue rose with me after work?

@29

You should use a vaporiser instead. It's better for you.

@13 uh no they used oil based pencils, which is just like a crayon

Roses Are Blue
Violets Are Too
This Poem Now Sucks
And Goes PEW PEW

OOOOoooo I want!

@32 hahahahaha

Great now there's more crap I have to buy my girlfriend. Unless they can make these poisonous, then she'll get all the blue roses she wants. It does look pretty cool tho'

I think people should click the actual link that explains where the information was found, aka the source in which this blog entry was inspired by, before leaving comments such as "fake," "photoshopped," etc. Just my opinion.

Thumperchica WINS! ...flawless victory.

roses are blue, violets are red..... wait that's not right

damn 32 beat me to it

Give me a break!

This was first announced in 2005...did someone get a time machine?
http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2005/04/06/_roses_are_red_and_now_blue_with_the_help_of_csiro_technology.html

But Laura, blue is the wrong color for roses

I'M THE COOLEST! TENNESSEE WILLIAMS IS WHAT'S IN RIGHT NOW

"Lavander: Enchantment. Alternatively: you should be burned at the stake!"

How accurate! My stepmonster's favorite is lavender, and she TOTALLY should be burned at the stake!

You truly are wise.

I never come on the comments part, but i had to just to see if somebody was like me and thought of Dr Octagon! and yes Tomorrowsparty!

Growing by the purple pond!

Actually, the "blue" roses they made are more of a lilac colour.

I know you were joking but just a little info. In a way it sort of helps people.

How? Blue plant pigments usually are anthocyanins. Anthocyanins are good because? Very effective anti-oxidants. They are of interested because if we can GM modify veggies to have more anthocyanins (btw blue/purple veggies/fruit like blueberries naturally have a lot of antho) and people eat them, we have less incidence of cancer (as you probably know... antioxidants prevent free radicals from interfering with DNA which can mutate and create cancer).

Recent article in Nature regarding TI-5 transformed tomatoes... read it. "Purple Tomato".... so blue flowers = practice for anthocyanin transformation.

@18:

"Other highlights included glow-in-the-dark roses showcased in an array of pastel hues in dark boxes, having been genetically modified to light up in the dark. " -the article

Why isn't the entire article about this???

Yes, if it is true, it seems trivial compared to the other much more effective and benificial uses of emerging genetic technology.

Don't know how much money was used and whether it was tax payer or private, but ultimately, seemingly random and useless accomplishments might add a piece of information into the genetic puzzle, that could be a building block for future more usefull advancements.

Many dead ends are inevitable.

Read on Yahoo earlier today that people are doing garage or kitchen table genetic engineering so to speak now.

The technology improves, the cost comes down, and the law of accelerating returns improves.

Perhaps, the random process of genetic engineering may give way to the more precise, if still primitive enterprise of synthetic biology, because synthetic biology takes the more random process of genetic engineering of the past (to some extent, has been done for 100,000 years with dogs, livestock) and uses the smallest units of genetic material to build from the ground up little devices.

Synthetic biology uses an engineering methodology.

One can fathom that if the knowledge base were to double every six months, in ten years that translates to an increase of a million fold, and in twenty years, a trillion.

These are baby steps to mastery of life....

Will is power.
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My grandma had been growing blue roses for years, and she didnt need any modified genes in them. Its nothing new to me, we always had blue roses in the garden

its beautiful isn't it, blue roses.

Wow, cool! Such intense coloring! I wonder when they will be available, and where we will be able to buy them? The ones they sell 2 J+P are more of a lilac, and get pinkier when given too much sun, I've been told. Hopefully, this color is more colorfast?

very beautiful

that is the most pretty thing i have seen in a wale p.s. i live i londin and is studing blue roses kisses to all