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Stem Cell Researchers Can Now Combine Animal and Human Embryos In The US (sciencemag.org)
Slashdot reader sciencehabit quotes an article from Science magazine: The National Institutes of Health announced that the agency soon expects to lift a moratorium on funding for controversial experiments that add human stem cells to animal embryos, creating an organism that is part animal, part human. Instead, these so-called chimera studies will undergo an extra layer of ethical review but may ultimately be allowed to proceed.
Although scientists who support such research welcomed the move, some were left trying to parse exactly what the draft policy will mean. It is "a step in the right direction," says Sean Wu, a stem cell researcher at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who co-authored a letter to Science last year opposing the moratorium. But "we still don't know what the outcome will be case by case," he adds. However, some see the proposal as opening up research in some areas that had been potentially off-limits.
Experiments could include using animals to grow human organs for transplants, although according to the article, some scientists "worry that the experiments could produce, say, a supersmart mouse."
Although scientists who support such research welcomed the move, some were left trying to parse exactly what the draft policy will mean. It is "a step in the right direction," says Sean Wu, a stem cell researcher at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who co-authored a letter to Science last year opposing the moratorium. But "we still don't know what the outcome will be case by case," he adds. However, some see the proposal as opening up research in some areas that had been potentially off-limits.
Experiments could include using animals to grow human organs for transplants, although according to the article, some scientists "worry that the experiments could produce, say, a supersmart mouse."
You know what is going to happen right? Some enterprising business will decide that it's now time for Chimera's of humans with animal traits. Won't someone think of the furries. :)
In all seriousness Chimera's is one half of the human "don't go there" map. The other half are Cyborgs/Androids that have free will. What do they have in common? They don't qualify as human, and thus have no human rights. So a Chimera might automatically have no rights and would be "slave" class. Won't the sweatshops love that.
... human overlords.
Sent from my ENIAC
Something that will piss off the right (because of embryonic stem cell research) and the left. (Because of animal/human hybrids.) The left and right will finally agree on something.
Did you know 80 to 90% of the moderators on slashdot wouldn't recognize a troll even if one dragged them under a bridge.
some scientists "worry that the experiments could produce, say, a supersmart mouse." Fears are unfounded assuming super smart rat population is allowed to keep the super smart mouse population in check.
I can't grow a few poppies for pain relief but these motherfuckers can play God in which they don't believe in anyway.
Fuck these motherfuckers.
Ah, so this is how we get all those mice that advance quantum physics for us.
I picture splicers from Batman Beyond roaming the streets in a few years. The new wonder high for teens and adults.
...For everyone! Hooray!
The National Institutes of Drumpf announced that the agency soon expects to lift a moratorium on funding for controversial experiments that add human stem cells to drumpf embryos, creating an organism that is part drumpf, part human. Instead, these so-called chimera studies will undergo an extra layer of ethical review but may ultimately be allowed to proceed.
yikes almighty phewww cease fire stand down let the moms determine what we're made of,, good sports with good spirits one & all.. am i typing backwards again? talk about a another step in the wrong direction? we've seen movies whereas the 'aliens' (example; priests, gargoyles, zionides etc,,,) pretend to come in peace & then rape the locals in the face value before deleting them?
some still calling this 'weather' https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fake+weather
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cease fire stand down.. 1000s per day of our genuine spiritual & physical allys, mostly kids, worldwide continue dying from 100% preventable starvation, rockets red glare, babys bursting in air, flat out deception etc... still no one is responsible,, or even aware..never a better time to consider ourselves in relation to one another & the spirit of creation? sleek is an understatement... free the innocent stem cells for other than biopsycho killer manufacturing projects?
"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
Someone call gore, man bear pig on the loose
I suggest anyone who opposes this research be sent to meet a few people on organ waiting lists. Let them tell those patients why they must be allowed to die.
Moooooove along! Don't start a beef! Don't get cheesed off!
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I want my monkey man!
We won't be able to create a super smart mouse. We can't even cute Herpes how can we make a super smart mouse?? It's too complicated for one thing. Wecan't cure even one autoimmune disease in a targeted manner. I mean we can treat thyroid autoimmune conditions by getting rid of the thyroid, but even if you count that we can't cure any other autoimmune conditions. Mind you theoretically now we have amassed a huge amount of knowledge about the immune system. There is basically no major question about the immune system we can't answer nowadays. Yet we can't persistently and usefully induce targeted tolerance so that even one autoimmune disease can be halted completely.
As an atheist I treat all religions equally and this does present some rather profound religious challenges. Specifically when a person had a donated organ in them that was grown in an animal that conflicts with their belief system...such as a pig, pig DNA even in the smallest amounts would still exist.
Now if a portion of a pig is in a person can that person still be Jewish or Muslim? how about an organ grown in a cow if a person is Hindu? -Now before you label me a troll just hold your horses and hear me out.
There are plenty of crack-pot beliefs out there preventing people from getting life saving medical operations. From supposed hyper-sensitivity to wireless signals to the whole nonsense with the MMR vaccine allegedly causing autism.
So assuming the religious community decides you cannot be jewish/muslim if you have an organ in you that was grown in a pig; and say for arguments sake the legal guardians are religious, and their child is under-aged but wants to live via organ donation from whatever animal conflicts with their belief system, would the government step-in for the benefit of the individual being saved? Should it?
Would denying such people on the grounds of religion be considered a hate crime? As denial of such a procedure may be a death sentence.
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
I can't grow a few poppies for pain relief
No but in almost every state you can have kratom (M. speciosa). Only a few states have outlawed it. It's widely available online and easy to grow. If you buy it online, shop around because some places have much better prices than others. Kratom is so close to an opiate that it can even stop opiate withdrawals. Its pain relief quality is similar to codeine and it feels like an opiate when you ingest it. Just like an opiate though, if you use it daily you can become addicted to it, though in my subjective experience it's not nearly so habit-forming as real opiates/opioids.
There are green, yellow, and red varieties named after the color of the veins of the leaves. There are about a dozen alkaloids in the leaves and the different varieties have different proportions of them. I prefer the green because it's more energizing, making things like manual labor easier. It's not a stimulant but rather, you won't feel tired nearly as easily. The red is generally more relaxing while the yellow is slightly better for pain.
When I had an abcessed tooth a while back, the dentist wouldn't give me anything stronger than ibuprofen. That just wasn't enough so I used kratom. It helped with the pain a lot and it let me sleep at night. That's not the first time my knowledge of plants helped me when doctors wouldn't. I feel for all the people out there who are entirely at their mercy. They will overprescribe antibiotics like crazy and create the next MRSA but they let people suffer needlessly because they don't want to prescribe pain relievers. I guess that's because antibiotics won't get anyone high so all the Puritannical control freaks ignore them.
Whats next Bird-Finch hybrids?
Finally the Dr. will be able to move his work back on shore again ..
God knows we could use some smarter mice.
Seriously, I want a pet catgirl.
Obama-Kerry's (OK) $400 million US cash (in foreign currency) to Iran of a 1.3 Billion, $1.7 Billion deal.
44 US hostages in 1979, released when Ronald Reagan assumed US Presidency; critical background in the OK deal.
Iranian Nuclear Scientist, killed by hanging, in Tehran. Tehran court claims he worked for U.S. (C.I.A. and State Dept.).
Looks like OK are willing and eager to pay blood money, before November.
Will the "supersmart mouse" be smarter than a human? If no, how would it be dangerous? If so, wouldn't that be a potentially useful thing to have around?
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
Everyone knows the solution to a super smart Mouse is to give him a counterpart which always inadvertently ruins his plans to take over the world..... Also, that counterpart must always provide a different perspective on what the super smart mouse might be thinking at any moment.
Any genetic engineer performing such a human-animal hybridization, thereby formally and explicitly disclaims any definable categorical distinction between the two.
He thereby disclaims any particularity of his biological category and thus abdicates all "human rights", and should be considered free to be killed at will, by anyone who feels like it.
Just the inescapable implications of logic.
Since when are humans not animals?
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I want my monkey man!
The preferred nomenclature is "African American". Although 'round these parts, we just call them niggers.
A human, animal combo just might explain Trump. I suppose a rat or weasel would be the animal component.
finally an intelligent amerkin.
Because that is how you get diseases crossing species to humans!
it's finally happening!
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Maybe he's posting stupid shit like that to get even more stupid replies from people like you.
'ManBearPig' is now real!
I think so Brain, but where would we find matching hats for each of the chimera's heads?
Furries across the country are going wild after hearing this news. Now they're lobbying to have chimeras become legal adults after 18 dog-years, because they just don't want to wait until Babs Bunny turns 18 real-years old to get their freak on.
ed.....ward......
Niggers are Africans who ate Human and changed color to blacker. They are despised because the wrong (sic) thing is to change color to Pig or Zombie (pink) by eating African.