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'It just really ethically scares me': Caution urged as scientists (trunc)
National Post ^ | July 2, 2019 | Sharon Kirkey

Posted on 07/03/2019 1:55:28 PM PDT by Twotone

The monkeys in Douglas Munoz’s Kingston lab look like other monkeys.

They socialize and move around and eat and drink in the same way. They don’t fall over or stagger around. In fact, the only thing separating the macaques from their unaltered lab mates is the elevated level of a specific human protein implanted inside their brains — proteins that accumulate in the brains of humans with Alzheimer’s disease.

The monkeys have been injected with beta-amyloid, a molecule that, in high-enough amounts, is toxic to human brain tissue.

Munoz and collaborators are studying the earliest changes in those monkey cerebrums. Normally it takes several decades for Alzheimer’s to unfold in human brains. The researchers don’t have that kind of time. The injections speed things up.

If left alone, eventually the monkeys will start to show signs of Alzheimer’s. They make more mistakes on memory tasks and their reaction time slows.

Alzheimer’s research relies heavily on rodents. Munoz is trying to develop a monkey model of Alzheimer’s, because one of the biggest reasons for the staggering string of flops in the search for an effective treatment for the brain-ravaging disease is the species gap. The rat brain is a long way away from the human brain. Not so much a monkey’s.

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TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; alzheimers; chimera; ghouls; humanexperiments; infanticide; medicareforall; obamacare; subhuman
Full title: 'It just really ethically scares me': Caution urged as scientists look to create human-monkey chimeras
1 posted on 07/03/2019 1:55:28 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

“The researchers don’t have that kind of time. The injections speed things up.”

wasn’t this the premise of the reboot Planet of the Apes? You know, let’s cure Alzheimer’s with this serum in monkeys..


2 posted on 07/03/2019 1:58:18 PM PDT by max americana (Fired libtards from our company & did so happily at every election since 2008. I hope all libs die.)
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To: Twotone

One aspect of liberalism is its tendency to want to remove differences and unify everything.

Man and woman. God differentiates. The world mixes the two.

Wealth - God allows differences. The world wants to remove differences.

Political - God allows differing worldviews. The world only wants one worldview.

Racial association. God created racial differences and cultures. The world wants to remove differences by removing races and having a one world culture.

God has separated man from the animals. The world wants to unify man with the animals.


3 posted on 07/03/2019 2:02:13 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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4 posted on 07/03/2019 2:03:42 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Twotone

“Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty human!”.


5 posted on 07/03/2019 2:03:51 PM PDT by moovova
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To: ElkGroveDan

What a great author. Read a few of his books years ago. Should read the rest.


6 posted on 07/03/2019 2:06:48 PM PDT by TruthFactor (Hang em', Hang em' High.)
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To: TruthFactor

My favorite, I’ve read them all.

Only man to have the #1 tv show, book, and movie at the same time...


7 posted on 07/03/2019 2:18:23 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ElkGroveDan

Bkmrk.


8 posted on 07/03/2019 2:21:09 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Twotone

Why isn’t the no-cruelty-to-animals crowd all up in arms here? They should be.


9 posted on 07/03/2019 3:30:39 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: max americana

This also has the danger of phonying up the science, such as it is even with the moral shadow over it.


10 posted on 07/03/2019 3:32:08 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: max americana
wasn’t this the premise of the reboot Planet of the Apes?

That reminds me; I need to check Valerie Jarrett's twitter page.
But I can't remember why.

11 posted on 07/03/2019 3:44:00 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: TruthFactor
Should read the rest.

Don't miss Crichton's autobiographical book "Travels."

It is described as being non-fiction. You can make up your own mind about that.

12 posted on 07/03/2019 4:00:51 PM PDT by TChad
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To: Twotone

Manufactured Democrat voters....


13 posted on 07/04/2019 12:55:08 AM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: EEGator

Favorite author, or favorite book?


14 posted on 07/04/2019 3:07:51 PM PDT by TruthFactor (Hang em', Hang em' High.)
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To: Twotone

They’ll lose their glasses and run around with pants unzipped.


15 posted on 07/07/2019 4:53:02 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Twotone
The rat brain is a long way away from the human brain.

Then they should stop using Dems.

16 posted on 07/07/2019 4:55:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds)
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