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Isn’t that special.
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.
No.
What could possibly go wrong?
Muslim men are particularly interested in sheep with more human-like lady parts
Shades of Max Headroom and the Body Banks!
This is what happens when you throw away all the principles that the human race has learned throughout human history.
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.
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.
Somewhere in Hell, Dr. Mengele is fapping.
Man Pig Bear.
Sorry, no graphic.
My dog is my best friend right now!
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.
Here’s a movie script just waiting to be written.
Puppy Monkey Baby!
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Speaking as a scientist very familiar with this particular field of research, I have to say that this article is so badly written that it is difficult to determine what, exactly, this guy is doing. To be fair, if it included the kind of technical details I would like to see, I would be one of very few people who could actually understand it.
I think it would be nice if pigs could be used to grow human organs. There are a lot of problems with this, however. One is that all animals have retroviruses present in the genomes; in fact, a significant percentage of our DNA is actually virus DNA. There is a potential problem in that pig retroviruses could enter a human organ if it is grown in a pig—and we do not know what would happen. The pig virus could be pathogenic in a human. Another problem is that cells tend to move around—slowly, but they can move. So a human organ grown in a pig would almost certainly contain some pig cells. Pig cell surface receptors would be recognized as foreign by a human immune system. Thus, even if an organ were grown in a pig out of a patient’s own stem cells, that organ could contain pig cells which would trigger immune reaction and potential rejection.
I have seen some progress in growing organs in vitro, using plastic scaffolding to give the growing cells some structure. I grew tiny lungs to test lung function, but my tiny lungs were not even remotely at the point where they could be used therapeutically. However, I saw a presentation by someone growing blood vessels in vitro, vessels that functioned very much as they would in the body. Imagine replacing diseased arteries with fresh new vessels—so many lives could be saved!
One day, we will have true regenerative medicine. That day can’t come soon enough. The idea of organ transplantation is abhorrent to me—so abhorrent that I would choose to die rather than hope a health person dies so I can get their organs. But organs grown in vitro would have none of the moral issues—they could save lives without ever costing lives.
