Hybrid Human-Animal Embryo Study Approved

Guardian   |  Ian Sample   |   September 3, 2007 08:27 PM


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Plans to allow British scientists to create human-animal embryos are expected to be approved tomorrow by the government's fertility regulator. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority published its long-awaited public consultation on the controversial research yesterday, revealing that a majority of people were "at ease" with scientists creating the hybrid embryos.

Researchers want to create hybrid embryos by merging human cells with animal eggs, in the hope they will be able to extract valuable embryonic stem cells from them. The cells form the basic building blocks of the body and are expected to pave the way for revolutionary therapies for diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and even spinal cord injuries.

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- BerylGamse See Profile I'm a Fan of BerylGamse permalink

Humans are animals. That's most of our problem. We think we're special, god favored. From the looks of things right now, the biological experiment of the large brained, bipedal mammal is an evolutionary dead end. Try chimera, trans-species or human/non-human embryos.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:30 AM on 09/04/2007
- godlessclif See Profile I'm a Fan of godlessclif permalink

I saw this movie back in 1973
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070222/
INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:31 AM on 09/04/2007
- CynAnne See Profile I'm a Fan of CynAnne permalink

... Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we clone to conceive (with a slight apology to Sir Walter Scott for the change in his brilliant observation)..! ;) ...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:02 AM on 09/04/2007
- Mort See Profile I'm a Fan of Mort permalink

Send in the clones. Where are the clones? Don't bother, they're here.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:13 AM on 09/04/2007
- CynAnne See Profile I'm a Fan of CynAnne permalink

... LOL, Mort! And the Dark Lord Valde-..err, I mean V.P. Cheney will lead them into battle against the much-feared (by wing nutters) 'Liberal Anti-Hate Societies'! Thank goodness the clones, with their newly-lowered immune systems, will be easily dispatched with a few old-fashioned sneezes and hacking coughs..! ;) ...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:32 AM on 09/06/2007
- Mort See Profile I'm a Fan of Mort permalink

When I was a kid I remember seeing a fetus in a bottle. It was half human and half sheep. Thanks to modern science, the perverts have graduated from wearing boots and jeans to labcoats and masks!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:49 AM on 09/04/2007
- HumeSkeptic See Profile I'm a Fan of HumeSkeptic permalink


Mort, I didn't know you liked wearing labcoats and masks. Of course, I did know that you are a pervert because of your obsession with a Church of some type.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:45 AM on 09/04/2007
- Mort See Profile I'm a Fan of Mort permalink

No, Hume, that's PRE-vert. I've risen above, not reverted to a lower life form.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:57 AM on 09/04/2007
- shockmagog See Profile I'm a Fan of shockmagog permalink

From George W. Bush's 2006 State of the Union Address:

"Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids, and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos. Human life is a gift from our Creator -- and that gift should never be discarded, devalued or put up for sale." (Applause.)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/01/20060131-10.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:08 AM on 09/04/2007
- mikeeforthetruth See Profile I'm a Fan of mikeeforthetruth permalink

They been doing that @ Los Alamos Labs for years and more cool horrific stuff.

MWiz
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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:36 PM on 09/03/2007
- UncleJimbo See Profile I'm a Fan of UncleJimbo permalink

Too bad Brando's dead he could star in "The Island Of Dr. Moreau II"!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:34 PM on 09/03/2007
- lornejl See Profile I'm a Fan of lornejl permalink

I'll be damned, I thought dumbya made that up. Is there such a thing as nuclear power pants too ?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:16 PM on 09/03/2007
- jungpatawan See Profile I'm a Fan of jungpatawan permalink

Paging Dr. Moreau.

Who knew "the island" was actually Britain? Well,okay, the Irish knew. But other than them...

JP

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:58 PM on 09/03/2007
- momentoftruth See Profile I'm a Fan of momentoftruth permalink

Start with Bush hes a slug who needs a BACKBONE

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:54 PM on 09/03/2007
- Where is Jesus? See Profile I'm a Fan of Where is Jesus? permalink

Oh, I get it now! The zealots are against using embryos for research that might help people with spinal injuries, diabetes, and a whole long list of other diseases. But it's ok to use embryos for these frankenstien experiments?

The reason they want to do this is because they know they are going to run out of human beings who are stupid enough to be cannon fodder anymore. What better answer than to crate some half human/half animal creature to send off to battle and scare the shit out of our enemies--which, by the way, are growing larger with every minute that Bush is still in the White House, fucking up the whole world with his "make peace by making war" philosophy. Brilliant! Eternal war for everyone! Yeah!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:39 PM on 09/03/2007
- grainger5 See Profile I'm a Fan of grainger5 permalink

Bush wants the hybrid for barbeque, not for war.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:51 PM on 09/03/2007
- WTFbush See Profile I'm a Fan of WTFbush permalink



Destroyed when they are the size of a pin head....George Bush is a pinhead, that scares me!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:39 PM on 09/03/2007
- LeftCoastLefty See Profile I'm a Fan of LeftCoastLefty permalink

I believe this study has been going on for quite some time over my back fence. In this neighborhood, we politely call them 'the Goat People.'

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:08 PM on 09/03/2007
- SmellyOne See Profile I'm a Fan of SmellyOne permalink

Very funny.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:38 AM on 09/04/2007
- Tom95134 See Profile I'm a Fan of Tom95134 permalink

I can already hear Bush & COmpany spinning this to meet their No Stem Cell research blockheaded thinking.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:04 PM on 09/03/2007
- 1man1voicenovote See Profile I'm a Fan of 1man1voicenovote permalink

They have already released the osterich hybrids.
They're great at finding oil and ignoring the consequences.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:59 PM on 09/03/2007
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