In Search For Cures, Scientists Create Embryos That Are Both Animal And Human

npr ^ | 05/18/2016 | Rob Stein

[BenLurkin]

ping

[Telepathic Intruder]

Isn’t that special.

[cba123]

Thanks for posting this. I had (just now) read this story on the Drudgereport, and was thinking we need to comment on this.

Good story.

[Talisker]

No.

[dfwgator]

What could possibly go wrong?

[CondorFlight]

Days of Noah, once again...

[Fai Mao]

Muslim men are particularly interested in sheep with more human-like lady parts

[BwanaNdege]

Perhaps the boldest hope is to create farm animals that have human organs that could be transplanted into terminally ill patients.

Shades of Max Headroom and the Body Banks!

[I want the USA back]

This is what happens when you throw away all the principles that the human race has learned throughout human history.

[gaijin]

Cells have receptors —sorta like hooks, or keyholes.

Things touch those receptors/identifiers, and get a vague idea of what they just touched “was that gaijin, or non-gaijin stuff..?”

It’s a recognition technique to distinguish between SELF and NON-SELF. It matters cuz if it’s non-self then it could be an invader, in which case the immune system would schedule it for attack and elimination.

A pig heart has pig cells with pig cell RECEPTORS.

What if instead you could engineer a pig with heart cells that expressed HUMAN receptors, much like those of YOUR cells?

Stuff inside you would bump up against that non-diseased PIG heart, and they would get fooled:

“Oh, that’s human stuff, kay, no prob...” and there would be NO TISSUE REJECTION.

YOU KNOW HOW FREAKING VALUABLE THAT IS..?

People are imagining Bill Clintonesque goat-men walking around upright, with Pan-Flutes, and that’s just wrong.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember reading something like this fifty years ago in a supermarket tabloid. The photo on the cover was titled...LADIES, WILL YOUR NEXT HUSBAND LOOK LIKE THIS?
It showed a well dressed man with a lizard head.

[grey_whiskers]

Somewhere in Hell, Dr. Mengele is fapping.

[Auntie Dem]

Man Pig Bear.

Sorry, no graphic.

[grey_whiskers]

Especially if we could make them ALL out of pigs and drive Daesh up the freaking wall...!

(Hint: I don't approve of such, but I bet Daesh would then look for up close and personal ways of expressing their disapproval.)

[gaijin]

[Bogie]

My dog is my best friend right now!

[dfwgator]

"I'm a Mog. Half man, Half dog. I'm my own best friend."

[JoeProBono]

[arthurus]

Dissection and use of some humans for the benefit of other humans is such a Wonderful Thing. Humans are indistinguishable cogs in the State machine and have no individuality. They are interchangeable. Some can be used for parts to keep others going.