[brucedickinson]

Full Title: "A human-pig hybrid embryo has been created in a world first: Breakthrough could open up the possibility for 'designer' animal organs to be used in people"

There are people who worry about the Ozone layer, Acid rain, Global Warming/Cooling/Climate Change- but genetic tinkering actually worries me.

Not just toying around with cells, but there is also the Crispir Device. If you're not familiar with it, it is a process by which genomes may be simply edited. It is the stuff of horror movies. You can put this equipment in your garage, in fact here is a line from the business home page I just linked to--

"Our easy-to-use, optimized and validated solutions span the entire cell engineering workflow, making genome editing accessible to anyone at any level. We offer our state of the art online CRISPR search and design tool along with CRISPR-Cas9 in four formats; Cas9 protein, Cas9 mRNA, all-in-one expression vector, and CRISPR Libraries paired with the optimal cell culture reagents, delivery method, and analysis tools based on your application and cell type."

It's no a matter of this stuff getting into the wrong hands, it's all over the world now. Who knows what has already been made. Scary, scary stuff.

[WMarshal]

Scientists behind the horrific creation were filled with fear when on of the horrible chimeras escaped and was seen running for President but, thankfully President Trump defeated pig-woman. The creature is still loose and shows a fondness for purple pantsuits.

[goodnesswins]

Um....we already have Rosie O’Donnell

[gaijin]

Cells are sorta like BAGS. The bags have recognition RECEPTORS on the outside, like door keys. When the proper lock brushes up against the proper key, the cell will open or do special stuff.

This system is so your cells can recognize what is YOU, and what is NOT you, part of your immune system.

Pig cells are like bags coated with pig KEYS, and when human cells with human locks bump up against them, there’s a mismatch “Get rid of this NOT YOU stuff...!”

So the human rejects the pig heart, see?

What they’re doing is changing the pig in juuuuuust such a slight way that the pig cells present with HUMAN keys on their outsides:

Pig heart into human, human cells bump up against special PIG heart, “Hey that MATCHES me..! I won’t reject that...”

They are NOT making pigs with human faces, not by a verrrrrrry wide margin.

This fear I see here is like, “The Wright Brothers are DEVILS trying to make manking fly as high as The Heavens..!”

It’s just silly, and I’m pretty religious.

[ETL]

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

Unlike the other pictures upthread, this hybrid is 100% not a special effect:

[AFreeBird]

Based purely on article title alone...

These so-called scientist: need to be stood up against a wall and shot!

There is something seriously wrong with this shit!

[dfwgator]

"Didn't you ever hear that song by Loverboy? 'A Pig and an Elephant's DNA Just Won't Splice."

[WKUHilltopper]

Damn! Kramer was right!

[bigbob]

Bartenders across the land will assure you this is not a first.

[faithhopecharity]

A pig- human hybrid with a very low percentage human part -———???? This isn’t new at all!! I had a boss just like this

[Wilderness Conservative]

Miss O’Donnel sure gotta purty mouth dont she?

[dfwgator]

Big man, pig man, ha ha charade you are.

[Organic Panic]

[Scooter100]

Am I crazy, or is there something singularly creepy and wrong with this?

[Crucial]

So they could create killing machines at some point. They could cross a predator like a lion or wolf and a human. Perhaps the technology isn’t far enough along to make these hybrids very functional but it will be. When that happens, life becomes more complicated but it always does.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Are they talking about Rosie O’Donnell again?

[Luircin]

Of all the Doctor Who episodes to predict the future, it HAD to be Daleks in Manhattan.

Having said that, the headline is a little sensationalist. How much DNA-altering is there?

[Gamecock]

You can't say we weren't warned.

[Arm_Bears]

Someone tell me again how vile Hitler and the Nazis were.

[Magnum44]

Not to downplay the seriousness of your concern...

but does this mean that man-bear-pig is soon to follow?