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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."
I can't figure out if it means we'll have more republicans or more democrats, but either way it worries me.
about its effects on the international haggis market.
Next we are going to have to send the sheep to public schools. And humans are going to complain that they are taking over our jobs.
Hey, Lamby, you got any human in you?
Just 15%? What do you say we make it 20?
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When they get to 51% human can you marry them?
No matter where you go, there you are.
Mary had a little lamb.
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Ok, if I ate a sheep that was 15% human would that make me 15% cannibal?
And don't go looking at me like it hasn't crossed any of your minds!
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I don't see a probaalem with doing this. It sounds useful and baaenificial.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
If sheep have human brains, does that mean they can finally consent?
I'm getting really ticked off at the whole "Baa means no!" crowd.
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One has already been to school with Mary, though it was against the rules. It made the children laugh and play.