If this can actually be accomplished, then the way we test treatments for addiction, psychological disorders, and anything that effects the human brain will be advanced beyond our imaginations.
Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy
Maryann Mott
National Geographic News
January 25, 2005
Scientists have begun blurring the line between human and animal by producing chimeras - a hybrid creature that's part human, part animal.
Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University in 2003 successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs. The embryos were reportedly the first human-animal chimeras successfully created. They were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory dish before the scientists destroyed the embryos to harvest their stem cells.
In Minnesota last year researchers at the Mayo Clinic created pigs with human blood flowing through their bodies.
And at Stanford University in California an experiment might be done later this year to create mice with human brains.
I give it exactly 2 minutes before nut jobs on the right start telling us these mice have souls and the practice is evil. (The same people will want to deny the mice public assistance and insist that they register for the draft.)
The mice are not human. The fact that we can bring our lab mice closer to possessing certain human characteristics in their biology only helps us cure human diseases.
If you are an anti-intellectual who is against science and for disease, please report to White House Office of personnel, the president wishes to make you his chief science advisor. No qualifications necessary outside of being a sycophantic yes-man.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
Chimeras are taking over AHHHHHH! hehehehe, hey I need a bio for the play program. I was thinking you could write like a sentence and then susan and daniel could both write one, and then I would combine them. Or else I'll just use the bio of Ghengis Kahn. What do you think?
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