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Mice Created With Human Brain Cells
pin_gween writes "Scientists have added 100,000 human brain cells to mice in an effort to create realistic models of disorders like Parkinson's Disease. Although mice are 97.5 percent genetically identical to humans and it sounds like a large number, 100,000 only represents 0.1% of the number of cells in mice brains. FTA: 'It's true that there is a huge amount of similarity, but the differences are huge,' Snyder said. 'You will never ever have a little human trapped inside a mouse or monkey's body. [...] Researchers are nevertheless beginning to bump up against what bioethicists call the "yuck factor." 'The worry is if you humanize them too much you cross certain boundaries,' said David Magnus, director of the Stanford Medical Center for Biomedical Ethics. 'But I don't think this research comes even close to that.'"
I for one welcome our new Pinky and the Brain overlords. NARF!
The mice were furious.
I thought mice - being pan dimensional beings - were far more advanced than humans (ranked 3, just after dolphins).
This is like modding an xbox 360/ps3/whatever with a Z80 - why whould you want to do that?
'The worry is if you humanize them too much you cross certain boundaries,'
Translation: The worry is that the mice will sue for cruel & unusual punishment and civil rights violations if humanized too much.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
"Why Brain, what are we gonna to do tomorrow night?"
"Guess... "
"Oh yeah, try to take over the world, right... "
Outsourcing programming becomes even cheaper once you have mice with human brain cells. Pay attention, Bill.
Yay, human-brained mice. This means that once they escape and start rampaging, scientists will have no choice but to create a race of catpeople to counter them. Of course, this will lead to revolts creating a need for dogpeople, but for a short time, I shall have my catboy! Vengance shall be mine!
Marxism is the opiate of dumbasses
get experimented on barberously!
They gave you a bad haircut? The bastards!
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
Researchers are nevertheless beginning to bump up against what bioethicists call the "yuck factor."
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Good to hear that NIMH is still up and running after that last scandal. They do good work.
Did you ever notice that *nix doesn't even cover Linux?
Scientists have added 100,000 human brain cells to mice
Now I don't even want to touch my mouse! I guess it's back to the command line for me.
The more you regulate a company, the worse its products become.
The problem is that the Flying Spaghetti Monster might give the mice a soul if we give them too many human brain cells.
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They are similar enough to us that many/most of the same drugs that work on us work on them. It's true..I came home last night to find that some mice had gotten into my stash and were sat around giggling and eating nachos.
To err is human. To forgive is not company policy.
so just for the record, we can make super strong fearless immortal mice that can sing, regenerate body parts, sniff out landmines, and have partial human brains. scientists don't mod their computer cases, they mod their mice!
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"But the brain poses an additional level of concern because some envision nightmare scenarios in which a human mind might be trapped in an animal head."
Someone kindly explain to President Bush why this is impossible. And don't laugh. He doesn't like being laughed at.
...a mighty mouse that will cy "Here I come to save the day!!!".
Abby Normal - Mice tap dancing around bellowing "Puttin on da witz!"
or maybe
Samuel L Jackson - "Who the fuck moved my goddamn cheese, motherfucker?!"
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Well I don't know about you, but speaking for myself, I find significant differences:
Of course, there are also similarities:
You're about 50% banana.
I like to think of myself as mostly fruitcake.
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you just might be onto something there... but let's just stick to stuff familiar to most slashdotters, shall we?
for a minute there, i lost myself...