Mice Created With Human Brain Cells

AP ^ | Dec 12 7:51 PM US/Eastern | PAUL ELIAS

[Mr. K]

By PAUL ELIAS AP Biotechnology Writer Dec 12 7:51 PM US/Eastern

SAN FRANCISCO - Add another creation to the strange scientific menagerie where animal species are being mixed together in ever more exotic combinations. Scientists announced Monday that they had created mice with small amounts of human brain cells in an effort to make realistic models of neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease.

Led by Fred Gage of the Salk Institute in San Diego, the researchers created the mice by injecting about 100,000 human embryonic stem cells per mouse into the brains of 14-day-old rodent embryos.

Those mice were each born with about 0.1 percent of human cells in each of their heads, a trace amount that doesn't remotely come close to "humanizing" the rodents.

"This illustrate that injecting human stem cells into mouse brains doesn't restructure the brain," Gage said.

[Mr. K]

Pinky:"what are we going to do today Brain"
Brain:"Same thing we do every day- try to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!"

[RosieCotton]

Ooooh...this could get interesting...

[orionblamblam]

Now awaiting wails from the "AH!!!! It's satanic!!!" crowd...

Five... four... three....

[AndrewB]

These guys clearly never spent much time watching B movies.

[Tax-chick]

Hmmmm ... now that I think about it, our gerbil has a very intelligent expression. How long has this experiment been going on?

[Mr. K]

yes! those are a CLEAR WARNING about the dangers of this type of stuff.

[Doc91678]

There go those nasty Democrats again. They really did it this time. They created in their own image what they think of the human race. Mice with human brains. Next they will create alligators with rabbits' tails to define themselves further.

[Ben Mugged]

To quote Neal Boortz Scientists at the Salk Institute in San Diego have succeeded in breeding mice human brain cells. It's all part of some research into Parkinson's disease. The mice were born with about 0.1% human brain cells in their heads. Mice with human brain cells? that 0.1% should be just about enough to force them to form a union. When they reach 18 in mouse years those that don't move to France will register to vote Democratic.

ROTFL

[kellynla]

Nothing amazing here...we've had RATS with human brain cells for decades! LOL

[TheGhostOfTomPaine]

How long has this experiment been going on?

You mean mice with human brain cells? Good question -- how long has the Democratic Party been around?

[BenLurkin]

I don't know about satanic -- but these are clearly mad scientists at work.

[Tax-chick]

:-). And interbreeding with gerbils ...

[TheGhostOfTomPaine]

Dang, you beat me to it by 2 seconds!

[Chi-townChief]

[OldPossum]

This brings new meaning to: "Are you a mouse or a man?"

[Red Badger]

More DUmmie voters on the way!.......

[psychoknk]

I'm actually waiting for the pro-life crowd. They used embryonic stem cells for this.

[Landru]

"Scientists announced Monday that they had created mice with small amounts of human brain cells..."

"Small amounts", huh.

...sure about that? {g}

[CaptRon]

POIT!

[OldPossum]

Re post 15, my wife looked at that and told me the correct phrase is: "Are you a man or a mouse?" Sorry about that.