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Scientists to Create 'Frankenbunny' in Big Research Leap
thisislondon.co.uk ^ | 10/05/06 | thisislondon.co.uk

Posted on 10/05/2006 1:45:02 PM PDT by I'm ALL Right!

Scientists to Create 'Frankenbunny' in Big Research Leap

05.10.06

Rabbit research: Experiments could day one cure Alzheimer's
Scientists are planning to create a "frankenrabbit" by fusing together human cells with a rabbit egg.

It is hoped the "chimeric" embryos, which would be 99.9 per cent human and 0.1 per cent rabbit, could lead to breakthroughs in stem cell research which could one day cure diseases such as Alzheimer's or spinal cord injury....

(Excerpt) Read more at thisislondon.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: health; science; stemcell
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To: I'm ALL Right!

Jackalopes are one thing, but what if you have a human rabbit... and someone makes rabbit stew out of it... are they a cannibal?

:-/

21 posted on 10/05/2006 2:06:14 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: I'm ALL Right!; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; ..
Embryonic Stem Cell Research on Animals Has FAILED to Produce Any Cures or Treatments in 25 Years
 
adult stem cells have proven useful in 72 diseases and conditions.
 

Benefits of Stem Cells to Human Patients - Do No Harm 


22 posted on 10/05/2006 2:09:43 PM PDT by Coleus (Only half the patients who go into an abortion clinic come out alive.)
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To: I'm ALL Right!

Revelation: 6:8 "...to kill with sword, famine,and pestilence and by the WILD ANIMALS of the earth."

The original Greek "therion" translated "wild animals" likely refers to "beasts" or "monsters". What kind of "monsters" could kill 1/4 of humanity? The kind created in some laboratory?


23 posted on 10/05/2006 2:24:09 PM PDT by pankot
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To: I'm ALL Right!
which would be 99.9 per cent human and 0.1 per cent rabbit,

In other words, human embryos under amother name so as to get around legal restrictions

24 posted on 10/05/2006 2:24:35 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
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To: Bon mots

Get .... in ..... mah ..... BELL .. ie !


25 posted on 10/05/2006 2:56:34 PM PDT by knarf (Islamists kill each other ... News wall-to-wall, 24/7 .. don't touch that dial.)
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To: I'm ALL Right!

As long as it isn't an Al Frankenbunny.


26 posted on 10/05/2006 3:43:58 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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Al Frankenbunny


27 posted on 10/05/2006 4:26:30 PM PDT by I'm ALL Right! (There's a fine, fine line between a stoat and a sporkweasel.)
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To: I'm ALL Right!; Coleus; Peach; airborne; Asphalt; Dr. Scarpetta; StAnDeliver; ovrtaxt

Using pig heart valves to replace defective heart valves is one thing, but this is thoroughly creepy, IMHO.


28 posted on 10/05/2006 5:16:53 PM PDT by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: I'm ALL Right!

Okay, now I'm creeped out.


29 posted on 10/05/2006 6:26:06 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: I'm ALL Right!

Been here. Done this.


30 posted on 10/05/2006 6:27:42 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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To: orionblamblam
Compare the level of creepitude wrought by scientists

"evolution rules, therefore anything goes"

31 posted on 10/05/2006 6:29:27 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck
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To: xp38

It's the sign of the Rapture!


32 posted on 10/05/2006 8:33:51 PM PDT by Ptarmigan (Ptarmigans will rise again!)
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To: balrog666

I need an airsick bag after seeing this sick motherf***er. Bunnies will ROT IN HELL FOR ETERNITY!!!!!!!!!!


33 posted on 10/05/2006 8:34:28 PM PDT by Ptarmigan (Ptarmigans will rise again!)
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To: I'm ALL Right!

Be afraid Jimmy, be very afraid.

34 posted on 10/05/2006 8:36:00 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: I'm ALL Right!

God will deny us the right to technology and even electricity itself if we keep on this course. Just a matter o' time.


35 posted on 10/05/2006 9:11:59 PM PDT by Maeve
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