Posted on 12/08/2019 10:16:08 AM PST by Olog-hai
Two chimera piglets containing monkey DNA have been born in China.
Although both died within a week and appeared to be normal, the baby animals had genetic material from cynomolgus monkeys in their heart, liver, spleen, lung and skin.
Scientists said the research, which required more than 4,000 embryos to get the piglets, aims to find ways of growing human organs in animals for transplantation.
This is the first report of full-term monkey-pig chimeras, Tang Hai at the State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology in Beijing told New Scientist.
Five-day old piglet embryos had monkey stem cells injected into them that had been adjusted to produce a flourescent (sic) protein, allowing researchers to find out where the cells ended up. [ ]
Neuroscientist Douglas Munoz at Queens University in Kingston, Canada, said that research projects like this just really ethically scares me. For us to start to manipulate life functions in this kind of way without fully knowing how to turn it off, or stop it if something goes awry, really scares me.
However, China shows no sign of stopping after proposing in July to create monkeys with partially human-derived brains in order to better study diseases like Alzheimers.
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And it tastes like chicken.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep.
Look at the person carrying the pig. Nose rings, spiky red hair. He could be playing bass for AC-DC.
LOL! It’s very late in 2019, but you have just written the BEST FR response of the year! Well done!
That’s from the British comedy ‘The Young Ones’. One of the funniest shows I’ve ever seen.
I got a letter from the Veterans Adminstration asking me to participate in a genetic study to help research to benefit veterans. I had my doubts as to how my genetic material would be used so I declined.
If Curious George & Porky Pig had a Baby...
Which of the two gene sets came from pelosi?
Frankenstein’s monkey.
You have an astonishingly good idea there.
Chimera.
Sounds like a plot for a Michael Critten tecno horror book.
There is a theory out there that humans are essentially that, primates with a pig hybrid in the line somewhere, due to humans having too much in common with both species that no other species shares. http://macroevolution.net
You looking for and democrat babe?
Although both died within a week and appeared to be normal, the baby animals had genetic material from cynomolgus monkeys in their heart, liver, spleen, lung and skin.
Scientists said the research, which required more than 4,000 embryos to get the piglets, aims to find ways of growing human organs in animals for transplantation.
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Five-day old piglet embryos had monkey stem cells injected into them that had been adjusted to produce a flourescent (sic) protein, allowing researchers to find out where the cells ended up. [ ]
The 87-year-old told the Sunday Telegraph: If the result of xenotransplantation is satisfactory with porcine kidneys to humans then it is likely that hearts would be used with good effects in humans within a few years.
If it works with a kidney, it will work with a heart... That will transform the issue, he explained.
Pigs hearts have a similar anatomy to those of humans, so they are used as models for developing new treatments. Heart failure is considered a global pandemic, with at least 26 million people affected around the world. Its hoped that using pigs hearts could help revolutionize how doctors combat the disease.
https://www.rt.com/news/466766-pigs-heart-human-transplants/
Just what we need. A pig that climbs trees and eats bananas.
using pig skins for humans:
Crossbreeding is not allowed in Nature. The fetus will miscarry and if two animals have very close DNA, the offspring will be born sterile. Cows and bison=sterile, horse and donkey= sterile mules.
There are no real Minotaurs.
"As God as my witness, I thought Chimpigs could fly..."
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