Genetic Mingling Mixes Human, Animal Cells

Monterey Herald ^ | 4/29/05 | Paul Elias - AP

[NormsRevenge]

Baaaaaaad Move , Dude. imo

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What if a human mind somehow got trapped inside a sheep's head?

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I smell a Steve Martin movie plot

[NormsRevenge]

[TexasTransplant]

I am a sick puppy, the first thing that came to mind was the ol Mississippi Redneck Joke "I was just helping that sheep over the fence" but with a sick twist, this Redneck was cornered and...

[Eastbound]

"Just in case, Greely said, the committee recommended closely monitoring the mice's behavior and immediately killing any that display human-like behavior."

Hmmmm! Not fair. What about all those dems who are displaying 'rat' behavior? I think letting them hold political office is a bit much. Couldn't we at least put them out to pasture?

[endthematrix]

Oh boy!

[The Red Zone]

Stanford law professor Hank Greely, who chaired the ethics committee, said the board was satisfied that the size and shape of the mouse brain would prevent the human cells from creating any traits of humanity. Just in case, Greely said, the committee recommended closely monitoring the mice's behavior and immediately killing any that display human-like behavior.

SUUUURE they will. More likely they will sell it on E-bay.

[neverdem]

IIRC, I read or posted a story about this guy in Nevada. This stuff just gets weirder.

[King Prout]

science ping

this thread might get heated.

[Smokin' Joe]

Look, Pinky! We are moving one step closer to world domination!

[libertylover]

Damn fools! You can maybe trick Mother Nature for a while but Father Time WILL catch up to you and make you pay.

[PatrickHenry]

Thanks for the ping. An odd topic. But weekends are slow for news, so I'll crank up the ping machine ...

[PatrickHenry]

EvolutionPing

A pro-evolution science list with over 260 names. See the list's description at my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail to be added or dropped.

[PatrickHenry]

Oops. Looks like this article was posted yesterday: Manimals: The Controversy Over Chimeras. Different title.

[King Prout]

I'll be away for a while - I must get at least 3 hours of sleep. I'll drop by when I wake and see whether anything nuclear has transpired in the interim.

[King Prout]

oh. thanks.

[Reform4Bush]

I tell ya they got a PIGMAN there!

[AntiGuv]

Due to this type of research, the lives of some people who are now condemning this type of research will be improved or extended . Just an idle observation..

PS. It's not just oddball do-it-cause-we-can research. The use of chimeras has the potential to knock years off the drug R&D process. It also has the potential to permit research in ways that are simply deemed to risky now, because they require experimentation with human structures.

[Vaquero]

'what is the law? not on all fours'

I think the biggest failing in human evolution at this point in time is that we save people with more and more infirmities. We need more eyeglasses than would our fore fathers, have not the muscle mass capability of them either and we have become able to survive and reproduce even though we would have been dead at a young age if we lived back oh lets say in 800AD, thanks to modern medicine and not our natural defenses. Our prodgeny are inheriting our worse traits.....and I think what will bring us up from our declining gene pool is our collective human intellect figuring out how to bolster the right genes. this smacks of eugenics to a certain extent, I know, but we are in possesion of an ever increasing handle on the knowlege and technologies that could make the people of the future as rugged as our most primative ancestors and as intellegent as we could possibley imagine, without a lot of worry about our human frailties. Just my $0.02...hope I am not perceived as an 'Mengele' but I think this type of experimentation is paramount to the future I perceive.

[AntiGuv]

I think the biggest failing in human evolution at this point in time is that we save people with more and more infirmities.

The biggest success of human evolution is that we're able to do that.

I completely agree with you BTW.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!