Scientists Create Sheep That Are 15 Percent Human

anthemaniac writes "Professor Esmail Zanjani and colleagues at the University of Nevada-Reno have created sheep that are 15 percent human at the cellular level. Half the organs in the sheep are human. The idea, of course, is to harvest those organs to transplant into human patients. From the article: 'He has already created a sheep liver which has a large proportion of human cells and eventually hopes to precisely match a sheep to a transplant patient, using their own stem cells to create their own flock of sheep.' One scientists worries, however, that the work could lead to new viruses that cross from animals to humans."

Comments

Sheep are definitely communists

[Anonymous Coward]

So it's gotta be Democrat I say.

Human arrogance towards life and God

[dtjohnson]

We know, of course, that the universe exploded into existence by accident, that life arose spontaneously in a primordial soup and that all life on Earth is ours to use in any way we can possibly conceive of. Our arrogance knows no limits. We don't just think there is no God, we know there is no God. We laugh with our unbridled contempt at anyone who would even think about the very idea of God as our creator. Only such people would create cross-species life between humans and sheep and we deserve everything that happens to us. That 'E. Coli' disease stuff that we will now live with forever that resulted from our late-70s recombinant DNA experiments with a ubiquitous bacterium was just a very minor warmup. We do it because we can.

UUgh

[JustNiz]

Is there no limit to the abominations that some so-called scientists will sink to? This is awful.

Re:This worries me

[aristotle-dude]

More republicans as they tend to be more religious ("sheep") ...Hmmm. The whole stem cell thing however suggests more Democrats. But after becoming sheep, perhaps heathen Democrats will become bible banger Republicans. Of course, they might then suffer such cognitive dissonance that they'd commit suicide leading to more Democrats. But then suicide is a sin .... this is hard to calculate. Oh wait, no need. Contraception is a sin. We're doomed to be overrun by the uber-religious no matter how human the sheep become. Yawn. If this is true, why do all atheists use the same bloody rhetoric, straw man arguments and FUD where ever you go on the internet? Do you all have meetings to decide on what FUD to spread or is it just part of some sort of flock behaviour? Perhaps that would explain why that same FUD has to be debunked over and over again. Maybe you should start holding meetings to get your stories straight and maybe come up with some new original FUD.

I have one parting question. Are there really so many atheists on the internet or do you guys just go around signing up for multiple accounts everywhere? Perhaps that would explain the apparent group think phenomenon.

Re:This worries me

[cheater512]

Maybe what you call 'FUD' is just common sense (which religious people dont have).

Hillbillies?

[gbutler69]

Since we're picking on different ethnicities, don't forget:

      1. The dirty, greedy, selfish, oven-roasted Kike-Jews
      2. Those fucking terrorist, Muhammed ass-lickers the Muslims (or Moslims or whatever)
      3. Those slant-eyed Chinks
      4. Those filthy Japs
      5. Those filthy, stinky Afro-American Hairdo NIGGERS
      6. Pole Riding Fags
      7. Cunt Licking Lesbos
      8. Fuckin' Beaner Mexicans
      9. Filthy, third-worlder South American, half-nigger, half-tomahawk chuckin' Latinos
      10. Red headed step-child GINGER kid Irish niggers
      11. Moronic Poles
      12. Lazy-Ass Russkies
      13. North-African Sand-Niggers
      14. Anorexic Ethiopian/Somalian filth lovin' desert trash niggers
      15. etc.
      16. etc.