[aculeus]

This guy bears watching.

[OREALLY]

This is sooo gross...just think they could create little Clinton's next !

[MHGinTN]

The resulting embryo was part male, part female and could potentially have developed into an apparently healthy foetus. What an absolutely asinine sentence! The differentiation process that leads from totipotent cells to pluripotent cells to multipotent cells to specific tissues and organs isn't knwon, yet this writer speciously asserts something akin to a JK Rawling wand move by Mister Potter! Aside from the pure idiocy of asserting an artificial monster is 'healthy', it would be instructive to have this dolt explain how the embryo would develop into a 'healthy' fetus. [This is what happens when an obit or sports writer is sent to do an article on an issue in biological sciences. Reading such drivel does expose the many false preconceived notions the dunce carried to the task. Self-constructed wiggle room is a sure sign of ignorance on the topic.]

[Imal]

At least this explains Maureen Dowd.

[CyberAnt]

"The American fertility doctor behind the experiment claimed the creation of chimeras could eventually be used to treat genetic diseases"

W H A T ...??? Is this guy saying he want's to create these "monsters" in order to use them for experiments.

This is outrageous!!

[dark_lord]

Hey, this is nothing. Wait till they start placing cells from human embryos into animal embryos. That is legal -- any experimentation on animal embryos is legal. In 30 years you can expect to see dogs with enhanced intelligence and a human genetically derived larynx. Watchdogs that will have the human equivalent IQ of around 80 and the ability to understand and speak basic human language.

And that is just the start. The Moreau concept is not new, but it will be reality in our lifetimes. And even if it is banned here -- cheap "soldiers" for the 3rd world. Imagine somebody like Saddam, with a few billion to spend, building a self breeding army of high IQ language speaking dobermans and pit bulls. Baboons that can take orders and fire AK-47s, and have no concerns about eating the population they are supposed to terrorize into following the police state directives.

The "Terminator" concept is crap. No one who knows anything about software is going to buy that one. But genetically enhanced animals? Snip, snip. A little DNA here, a little there. It won't happen fast...but it WILL happen.