[nickcarraway]

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[mlizzy]

I was just watching the Splice movie trailer.

[Spok]

How about Washington, D.C.?

[Mr. Mojo]

[JoeProBono]

[humblegunner]

I may get some relatives ping!

[El Gato]

ANIMAL-HUMAN HYBRIDS BANNED IN SOME STATES

That's going to cut down on the sexual partner selections for a whole bunch of Muslims. The women are all "tied up" by the rich guys, with four wives and as many concubines as they can afford. That leaves chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and of course goats for the "common" male muzzie. Maybe it would be better to substitute bonobos for chimps, the average chimp female wouldn't have a muzzie and would probably rip his arms, and other appendages, off.

OTOH, Bonobo females are, unlike chimp females, accostomed to being able to refuse sexual advances from undesirable males. I guess now that I think about it, chimp culture and many Muslim cultures have a lot in common.

[tweeb]

This is stupid. This isn’t a response to genuine moral concerns (unlike, for example, laws directed to embryonic stem-cell research) — this is mere pandering to mindless “ewwww” reactions.

[nmh]

We already have these in the WH.

We don’t need MORE.

[Slyfox]

They look like normal animals. The difference is on the inside.

[Hot Tabasco]

There are certain things that mankind shouldn't mess with and this is one of them.

With that being said, there is no doubt in my mind that there are labs throughout the world, privately funded, that are doing this very type of experimentation........

[gaijin]

Sensationalist crap. There are already dozens of medications based, in part, on animal sequences and humanized mouse cells, etc.

Pigs make organs similar to humans —a lot of current research centers on how to humanize the epitopes that present on the cell surfaces.

Should we not do that?

We could save millions. The problem is getting worse —people are living longer, while the number of donors is stable. Also minorities seldom donate organs.

I don’t get what the big deal is here.

[erod]

[little jeremiah]

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Just because science and techonology *can* do something doesn't mean it should. This is playing with fire and most likely will have very bad consequences. Trying to make a perfect world beyong what God has created is the path to pertect hell on earth.

[RichInOC]

[cue “Dueling Banjos”]

[ROCKLOBSTER]

If a human had, say, hepatitis, and their liver was dying, scientists could extract liver cells from that person, insert them into a developing sheep, and then harvest a human liver, made from a person's own cells (to reduce the chance of organ rejection), and replace the old liver.

Instead, why not work towards growing my new liver in place with either my own DNA or that of a close family member with a healthy liver history?

[Scythian]