Guest JMT Posted January 27 Report Share Posted January 27 Animal-Human Hybrids Spark ControversyMaryann MottNational Geographic NewsJanuary 25, 2005Scientists have begun blurring the line between human and animal by producing chimeras—a hybrid creature that's part human, part animal. Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University in 2003 successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs. The embryos were reportedly the first human-animal chimeras successfully created. They were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory dish before the scientists destroyed the embryos to harvest their stem cells. In Minnesota last year researchers at the Mayo Clinic created pigs with human blood flowing through their bodies. And at Stanford University in California an experiment might be done later this year to create mice with human brains. Scientists feel that, the more humanlike the animal, the better research model it makes for testing drugs or possibly growing "spare parts," such as livers, to transplant into humans. Watching how human cells mature and interact in a living creature may also lead to the discoveries of new medical treatments. But creating human-animal chimeras—named after a monster in Greek mythology that had a lion's head, goat's body, and serpent's tail—has raised troubling questions: What new subhuman combination should be produced and for what purpose? At what point would it be considered human? And what rights, if any, should it have? There are currently no U.S. federal laws that address these issues.....full story: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0125_050125_chimeras.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bornslippy22 Posted January 27 Report Share Posted January 27 like the island of dr. moreau.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shannon_coolj. Posted January 27 Report Share Posted January 27 This is truly scary! There's a reason nature made pigs pigs and humans humans. There's also a reason we can't reproduce together. What the hell do these scientists think they're doing?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 Pig and elephant DNA just won't splice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Diabolique Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 crab people, crab people. Looks like people, tastes like crab.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest slamminshaun Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 crab people, crab people. Looks like people, tastes like crab.... LMFAO...hahaBut in all seriousness, just because you can do something, doesn't always mean you should. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan2772 Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 Pig and elephant DNA just won't splice.unless, of course, you play some sweet tunes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Diabolique Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 Don't you know they already did this w/ Jim Breuer and David Duchovny?!?No lie, I had a friend who I thought was the most logical person I knew tell me that she knew this girl (who she swore was an honest person : ) who was from the ozarks, who swore there were sheep-people living in the mountains of the ozarks. I-I-I-I-I-I dunno... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest siuol_leahcim Posted January 28 Report Share Posted January 28 these one-assed schematics are no good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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