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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.

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<p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>

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To harvest various organs, ie blood to replace that which was lost, brain/nervous system tissue to replace brain damaged or alzhimers patients, .....

Hmmmmmm....wasnt there something about mankind being destroyed because of an a-mal-ga-mation? Looks like I get to do some research this weekend....

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OK, I like to think of myself as virtually "unshockable", but this stuff SQUICKS me.

Ew.

Just ... ew.

"After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" -- T.S. Eliot
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"SQUICKS " ??????

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wasnt there something about mankind being destroyed because of an a-mal-ga-mation?


Not in the Bible, there isn't.

/Bevin

ps: the truth is we are all chimeras. Viruses have been transporting DNA between species ever since there were viruses and species....

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Well, if we're all chimeras, then no wonder some of us are into this sort of thing. We're insane. We'd better stop.

Anyone ever see the movie "Mars Attacks" with Pierce Brosnan and Sarah Jessica Parker? This reminds me of the little dog head on SJP.

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Mice with human brains? They wouldn't fit, for one thing. But can you imagine some breed of superrat with human-level intelligence? They might take over.

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Can we say "Willard"?

<p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>

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There are people who are true chimeras. Sort of the opposite of cojoined twins.

Cojoined twins result when one fertilized egg subdivides, and then splits into two groups that develop into identical twins.

You can get the other case where two separately fertilized eggs - which usually results in non-identical twins - clump together and then grow together as a single individual.

Such a person literally has two different sets of DNA in different organs of their body. If, as has happened, they then give parent a child, they can literally fail a DNA match against their own child, because the child can from the other set of DNA than the match DNA sample comes from!

SQUICK - see http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=squick&f=1

/Bevin

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Mice with human brains? They wouldn't fit, for one thing. But can you imagine some breed of superrat with human-level intelligence? They might take over.


Like Pinky and the Brain?

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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

 

George Bernard Shaw

 

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  • 4 weeks later...

Maybe someone here can help...can you help?

I need a favor !!

My neighbor has a puppy he's giving away (FREE!).

It's a Dachshund, it's house broken,

and it's great with kids.

He's giving it away because his wife

says the dog 'stares' at her, and

that gives her the 'Heebie Jeebies'.

If you're interested, or know someone who is, let me know.

Here's a picture of the dog.

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Ahhh, science ... that great endeavor of the brotherhood of man ... how it was to save us! LOL.

Seriously though -- this is what you get when superstitious people won't permit stem cells to be harvested from aborted foetuses for fear it will drive UP the abortion rate (not so, it will only keep the poor foetus' little life from going to TOTAL waste, really). Scientists now have to find alternate means of cultivating these cells so that research into the curing of disease and congenital disorders can proceed. And with mental illness at an exploding rate, they likewise have to try to reproduce the conditions of the human brain as much as possible for testing purposes, though I think a mouse with human brain structure is a bit bizarre.

"After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" -- T.S. Eliot
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This thread really had my head spinning..

I was thinking of Saturday morning Mighty Mouse cartoons,

hearing Michael Jackson sing Ben...and now the thread is going to the dogs.

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That dog would give anyone the heebie jeebies.

<p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>

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...and now the thread is going to the dogs.


Well at least one doesn't have to be bored by nfdmtts on this one. Perhaps the reason nfdmtts are so prevalent is because the journey to the sanctuary is with the paramount reason to find entertainment of an acceptable spiritual nature. Make the reason for attending worship services, worship, and the dmnftts might just disappear.

[:"red"] "And the vision of all this has become for you like the words of a book that is sealed.

When men give it to one who can read, saying, Read this, I pray you, he says, I cannot, for it is sealed.

And when the book is given to him who is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you, he says, I cannot read.

And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near Me with their mouth and honor Me with their lips but remove their hearts and minds far from Me, and their fear and reverence for Me are a commandment of men that is learned by repetition [without any thought as to the meaning],

Therefore, behold! I will again do marvelous things with this people, marvelous and astonishing things; and the wisdom of their wise men will perish, and the understanding of their discerning men will vanish or be hidden." [/] Isaiah 29:11-14 AMP

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Lift Jesus up!!

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SSssshhhhhhh LHC. Remember, if you say it (nfdmtts), it will come.

<p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p>

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Ron Lambert asked:

"... some breed of superrat with human-level intelligence?"

A: Nicodemus - "The Widow of NIMH"

Debile fundamentum, fallit opus. - "Where there is a weak foundation, the work falls."

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after seeing the picture of the dog, well..let's just say it does give one pause for thought....!

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

 

George Bernard Shaw

 

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Her statement about it being done before the Flood is interesting...

(1) It is hard to understand what she meant

(2) since there is no evidence that the Flood she spoke of happened in the way she described and A LOT of evidence against it, she was apparently WAY of base before even getting started on the idea

(3) there is no evidence the ancients had the necessary levels of science and technology, even if there was a flood. Either that or Noah and his family were some of the most complete ignoramuses in the society

/Bevin

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