Bid to create part human part animal embryos

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 11/07/06 | Nic Fleming

[Defender2]

hehehe....judging from the results in the picture in post #4, I agree with you.

[supercat]

However, it fails to mention that, of the 99.9% of the DNA that is "human", about 97% of it is junk while the remaining 3% is actually common to both the human and the animal in question.

Indeed, to be useful, I would think they should express things in terms of "Of the genetic material in the new cells, xx% is uniquely human, yy% is uniquely lapine, zz% is common to both rabids and humans, and ww% appears to be random filler.

[Lauren BaRecall]

Should it be proven correct through appropriate experiments, scientists could spare the entire use of embryonic stem cells and defer to using somatic cells-- a moral solution to a stem cell problem.

We already do have a moral (and very successful) solution, namely adult and cord blood stem cells.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

No thanks. Have enough problems with the current genetic pool.

[jmcenanly]

Who knows where this line of inquiry will lead.

[Lauren BaRecall]

IMO, if the scientists are asking for "permission," it means that the research is already underway.

[the invisib1e hand]

anyone know of any good asbestos-suit stocks? I'm not saying fire will come from heaven, but it couldn't hurt to be in prepared if it does...

[weegee]

Looked at DU and stumbled on their thread about this (I went over to see their response to OBL's possible capture).

No one had anything good to say about this (they made jokes about politicians, they smiled because it would make "fundies" heads explode, and then some questioned it vaguely while some shouted them down for challenging things their puny minds could not understand).

Then there was this curious comment; "Let's stick with stem cells and not this other garbage. - But hopefully it'll stay out of U.S. media until Wednesday."

Anything to win an election, damn the issues to obscurity, eh?

[metmom]

So what if only a small portion of DNA is used? That's got nothing to do with it. That's not the point of the whole issue. You seem to really be missing that and it's that making human/animal hybrids is morally repugnant and wrong.

I guess this is the end result of acceptance of the theory of evolution. When people get away from the belief that man was created in the image of God and is just another animal that evolved from another animal, anything can be justified.

Scriptural references in Genesis suggest that it was the corruption of the human race by angelic beings that was a factor in God judging the earth and destroying it in the Flood. If mankind is now in the process of corrupting the human race for the second time, they'd best be aware of the danger they're bringing on themselves.

[NYer]

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