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furshur
SFN Regular
USA
1536 Posts |
 Posted - 11/08/2006 : 06:58:17
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There are plans to create a human-cow hybrid. It is not really as insidious as the headlines sound of course.
But it made me think; can the dreaded ManBearPig be far behind? Hey, I'm cereal!
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
 Posted - 11/08/2006 : 22:57:34 [Permalink]
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I'm just waiting for the first application to create a 5 assed monkey, or to create a pot bellied elephant.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2006 : 23:00:10 [Permalink]
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Oh wait, this is not the humor section 
Seriously, the media sucks when it comes to science coverage. The benefits of replicating human disease models in living animals could advance medicine significanty.
Buy when they throw up headlines like "HUMAN_COW HYBRID!", it only serves to scare the ignorant.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 11/09/2006 : 03:31:49 [Permalink]
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This isn't really a "hybrid," is it? I mean, there's no combination of human and bovine nuclear DNA, right? It's not even a chimera, which would be a mixture of both bovine and human cells.
My only concern about such work is the possibility of releasing animal viruses into the human population at some future date. I don't otherwise see any problem with such research.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 11/09/2006 : 07:39:30 [Permalink]
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Half said:
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My only concern about such work is the possibility of releasing animal viruses into the human population at some future date. I don't otherwise see any problem with such research.
No cells created with this technique are ever likely to be used in human therapies. The idea is to develope ways to improve the success of SCNT techniques, and maybe beyond that to explore basic principles of things like tissue differentiation. To be used in humans you would need to accomplish the same things with human egg cells.
I'm not sure how well it will work anyway. There are likely some differences between human and bovine mitochondrial DNA, not to mention the epigenetic differences.
Still very interesting though.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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