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Scientists debate blending of human, animal forms
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| Jay777
Posted on 12/09/2004 5:34:16 PM PST by Jay777
In Minnesota, pigs are being born with human blood in their veins.
In Nevada, there are sheep whose livers and hearts are largely human.
In California, mice peer from their cages with human brain cells firing inside their skulls.
These are not outcasts from "The Island of Dr. Moreau," the 1896 novel by H.G. Wells in which a rogue doctor develops creatures that are part animal and part human. They are real creations of real scientists, stretching the boundaries of stem cell research.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: bioethics; biotech; chimeras; thundercatsho
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posted on
12/09/2004 5:34:16 PM PST
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Jay777
To: Jay777
In California, mice peer from their cages with human brain cells firing inside their skulls. Better than the usual case in California: Humans with the brain cells of 'rats.
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posted on
12/09/2004 5:36:02 PM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(In a just world, Arafat would have died at the end of a rope.)
To: Jay777
I don't know where this is going but I can say that most people could be improved with a little animal input...
...not so confident about genetic infusion of humans into animals.
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posted on
12/09/2004 5:36:36 PM PST
by
weenie
("A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants." -- Churchill)
To: Jay777
I would like to order a RINOcerRAT, a donkeysnake, and Poodleman...oh wait! Those species already exist!
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posted on
12/09/2004 5:37:57 PM PST
by
Jay777
To: Jay777
Blending of human & animal forms: Liberals by any other name.
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posted on
12/09/2004 5:38:31 PM PST
by
DTogo
(U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
To: Jay777
Each one after his own kind.....it works. Anything else is just experimenting.
To: Jay777
I found a picture of one of the scientists.
To: anniegetyourgun
Biologists call these hybrid animals chimeras, after the mythical Greek creature with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail.
Conservatives call them Kerry clones, after a ridiculous french creature with a horse's head, a serpent's tounge, the body of an aged hippy windsurfer, and the mind of a flip-flop.
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posted on
12/09/2004 5:42:45 PM PST
by
Jay777
To: bahblahbah
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posted on
12/09/2004 5:43:15 PM PST
by
Jay777
To: Jay777
To: trailboss800
Chimeras are allowing scientists to watch, for the first time, how nascent human cells and organs mature and interact...
Wait a minute...the chimeras are "allowing" the scientist? Just who is in charge here?
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posted on
12/09/2004 5:44:39 PM PST
by
Jay777
To: Jay777
What Do You Get When You Cross...
An Eskimo with a pig? A polar boar.
A ham with a karate expert? Pork chops.
Muleteam1
To: Muleteam1
During one recent meeting, scientists disagreed on such basic issues as whether it would be unethical for a human embryo to begin its development in an animal's womb....
Who's your mommy?
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posted on
12/09/2004 5:46:48 PM PST
by
Jay777
To: weenie
I don't know where this is going but I can say that most people could be improved with a little animal input...
I alway thought humans should have a tail. They are so expressive.
To: Jay777
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posted on
12/09/2004 5:50:20 PM PST
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Jay777
To: Jay777
Talk about being raised by wolves...LOL!
Sometimes I'm ashamed to admit I am a biologist.
Muleteam1
To: Jay777
"In Minnesota, pigs are being born with human blood in their veins.
In Nevada, there are sheep whose livers and hearts are largely human.
In California, mice peer from their cages with human brain cells firing inside their skulls. "In DC, there's slugs that speak.
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posted on
12/09/2004 5:55:21 PM PST
by
spunkets
To: Muleteam1
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posted on
12/09/2004 6:10:19 PM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Oh yeah - and F the french too!)
To: Muleteam1
My step sister was going to be a marine biologist. She ended up changing her major to be an archiologist.
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posted on
12/09/2004 6:10:36 PM PST
by
Jay777
To: microgood
You guys remember the Thundercats?
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posted on
12/09/2004 6:11:50 PM PST
by
Jay777
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