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Woah woah woah. Hybrid human-animal embryos?

Started by e, May 19, 2008, 07:15:14 PM

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e

May 19, 2008, 07:15:14 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7407589.stm

This isn't quite as Traveler as it sounds, since they only keep the embryo for 4-5 days in order to collect stem cells from it, but it's still boggling.

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Jasper

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May 19, 2008, 07:56:38 PM
Stem cell politics driving research, hooray. :lol:

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May 23, 2008, 02:17:51 AM
this could be pretty cool, but it'll probably end in furries.
humans are soo predictable  :cry:
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May 23, 2008, 02:27:46 AM
AFAIK, it's just a human nucleus in an animal embryo.  So the human DNA isn't really 'mixed' with the animal DNA except maybe the mitochondrial DNA?

We certainly won't get catgirls out of this.  It would take engineering, not just blindly mixing DNA.
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May 23, 2008, 03:09:50 AM
Quit it, you, with your science!  :argh!:
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May 23, 2008, 04:28:59 AM
Shimmy and tramp! The Cytoplasmic Method.
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May 24, 2008, 02:52:05 PM
although you are a human girl you are giving birth to a horse
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May 24, 2008, 03:03:13 PM
Quote from: Regret on May 23, 2008, 02:17:51 AM
this could be pretty cool, but it'll probably end in furries.
humans are soo predictable  :cry:

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May 24, 2008, 05:18:42 PM

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May 24, 2008, 10:03:07 PM
send his son to dr moreau
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