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Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy
National Geographic ^ | January 25, 2005 | Maryann Mott

Posted on 01/27/2005 8:08:03 AM PST by Jay777

Scientists have begun blurring the line between human and animal by producing chimeras—a hybrid creature that's part human, part animal.

Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University in 2003 successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs. The embryos were reportedly the first human-animal chimeras successfully created. They were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory dish before the scientists destroyed the embryos to harvest their stem cells.

In Minnesota last year researchers at the Mayo Clinic created pigs with human blood flowing through their bodies.

And at Stanford University in California an experiment might be done later this year to create mice with human brains.

Scientists feel that, the more humanlike the animal, the better research model it makes for testing drugs or possibly growing "spare parts," such as livers, to transplant into humans....

(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: bioethics; chimeras; genetics
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1 posted on 01/27/2005 8:08:03 AM PST by Jay777
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To: PatrickHenry

Next step in evolution?


2 posted on 01/27/2005 8:11:27 AM PST by Jay777 (Gen. Tommy Franks for President in 08)
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To: Jay777

Paging Dr. Moreau!!!


3 posted on 01/27/2005 8:11:37 AM PST by rohtol
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To: Jay777

"I am not..an...animal!!!!"


4 posted on 01/27/2005 8:11:40 AM PST by mike182d
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To: Jay777

I wonder if science can create a Democrat with conservative blood flowing through her body?

And would the effect be permanent, or last only until the 1st Tuesday in November, 2008?


5 posted on 01/27/2005 8:12:01 AM PST by StoneGiant
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To: Jay777

Wow...soon they'll have freaks that make Michael Jackson look normal. It's stories like this that make me glad I'm 'old'.


6 posted on 01/27/2005 8:12:35 AM PST by johnmilken
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To: Jay777

Looks like a new geneeration of Democratic voters.


7 posted on 01/27/2005 8:13:17 AM PST by Reba703
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To: Jay777

The Island of Doctor Moreau -- "Are we not men?"


8 posted on 01/27/2005 8:13:56 AM PST by henderson field
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To: Jay777; MeekOneGOP

9 posted on 01/27/2005 8:13:59 AM PST by Paleo Conservative (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!)
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To: Jay777

Give me large swift wings of an eagle or osprey, speed of a cheetah, and power of a gorilla :D


10 posted on 01/27/2005 8:14:03 AM PST by Echo Talon (http://echotalon.blogspot.com/)
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To: Jay777

I'd consider buying a centaur or two. How much are they?


11 posted on 01/27/2005 8:14:18 AM PST by GSlob
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To: Jay777

This is very dangerous stuff. Breeding animals with custom human parts for use in transplant surgery is OK. Letting the animals breed or exist outside the lab is monsterous.


12 posted on 01/27/2005 8:14:58 AM PST by playball0
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13 posted on 01/27/2005 8:15:48 AM PST by cripplecreek (they call me tater.)
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To: Jay777

In this article, biotechnology activist Jeremy Rifkin says,
"One doesn't have to be religious or into animal rights to think this doesn't make sense," he continued. "It's the scientists who want to do this. They've now gone over the edge into the pathological domain."

Agreed, Jeremy.


14 posted on 01/27/2005 8:16:28 AM PST by ColoCdn (Neco eos omnes, Deus suos agnoset)
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To: playball0

chimera

15 posted on 01/27/2005 8:17:18 AM PST by Jay777 (Gen. Tommy Franks for President in 08)
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To: All

From article...But creating human-animal chimeras—named after a monster in Greek mythology that had a lion's head, goat's body, and serpent's tail—has raised troubling questions: What new subhuman combination should be produced and for what purpose? At what point would it be considered human? And what rights, if any, should it have?


16 posted on 01/27/2005 8:18:08 AM PST by Jay777 (Gen. Tommy Franks for President in 08)
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To: Jay777

This is monstrous.


17 posted on 01/27/2005 8:19:35 AM PST by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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To: Jay777

None. It shouldn't be done. Especially by those who have a 'pathological' obsession (according to Rifkin in the article).


18 posted on 01/27/2005 8:19:41 AM PST by ColoCdn (Neco eos omnes, Deus suos agnoset)
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To: All

From Article...Weissman has already created mice with brains that are about one percent human.

Later this year he may conduct another experiment where the mice have 100 percent human brains. This would be done, he said, by injecting human neurons into the brains of embryonic mice


19 posted on 01/27/2005 8:19:42 AM PST by Jay777 (Gen. Tommy Franks for President in 08)
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To: Jay777

Matchmaker matchmaker make me...a cat's backbone, an eagle's eyesight, and the regenerative ability of some of them lizards.


20 posted on 01/27/2005 8:20:03 AM PST by Graymatter
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