So, how's things, goat boy?
Posted on 11/10/2009 4:26:57 PM PST by geddylee
"It sounds yucky, but it may be well worth doing if it's going to lead to a cure for something horrible," said Robin Lovell-Badge, a stem cell expert at Britain's National Institute for Medical Research, and a member of the group conducting the study.
At a media briefing in London, Lovell-Badge said there were two main types of experiments: altering an animal's genes by adding human DNA or replacing a specific animal sequence with its human counterpart. Several years ago, human genes were added to a mouse to create a model of Down's syndrome for scientists to study how the disease evolves, which could lead to potential treatments.
Scientists also have tried to grow human organs in animals that could one day be transplanted back into humans — like a
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Really? You think?
We’ve already got one in the WH.
PETA soon to Protest.
ALF soon to stage Direct Action.
If I heard that they could grow a pig that looked like a pig and behaved like a pig, yet that had my son’s immune system so he could have replacement islet cells and no longer be a diabetic, I’d cry with relief.
This technology will save lives. I’m sure that most people waiting for hearts, kidneys or livers are happy about this as well.
Thank you Jesus for making me a Christian and giving me much more to look forward to than spending as long as I can in this soul tent.
It may be demonic.
From Wikipedia, we have ...
After Mendel completed his work with peas, he turned to experimenting with honeybees, in order to extend his work to animals. He produced a hybrid strain (so vicious they were destroyed), but failed to generate a clear picture of their heredity because of the difficulties in controlling mating behaviours of queen bees. He also described novel plant species, and these are denoted with the botanical author abbreviation "Mendel".
So, how's things, goat boy?
Doing everything they can to break down the species barrier,I guess the next plague isn`t coming soon enough for some.
Why? Unless this requires desecration of human life (ie abortions) it’s perfectly fine with me.
Human animal hybrids..no That is playing god, and I don’t think he’d be amused at us humans mixing our DNA (created in His Image) with lower life-forms!
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Human/animal hybrids is OK with you?????????
How did you last so long on FR?
I’m not OK with *all* of it. I am OK with the altering of animals’ immune systems to mimic humans so organs can be transplanted. (For this reason, pigs are rapidly becoming my most beloved animal.)
If it acts like a pig, walks like a pig, looks like a pig, oinks like a pig, thinks like a pig...
...but has my son’s immune system so they can transplant an organ and save his life, I’m for it.
We already splice human DNA into bacteria. That’s how they make insulin. Years ago I read about human DNA being spliced into plants to produce an enzyme that some people lack. Another life-saver.
I *do* have a problem with making fully-human embryos using cow and rabbit eggs. Too far. (I like how they added that the embryos would be destroyed after 14 days. Like that made it better.)
The greatest hope for my son is a swine islet transplant. I pray for it almost every day. There are people dying on transplant lists. (Personally, I think human-to-human organ transplants are more immoral than the animal to human ones. Most organs must be harvested while the donor is still alive. The donor is effectively murdered on the operating table. Altered animals would solve that moral dilemma.)
We need this.
But we also need to draw ethical and moral lines.
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