[FulcrumPilot]

"For example, an experiment that would raise concerns, he said, is genetically engineering mice to produce human sperm and eggs, then doing in vitro fertilization to produce a child whose parents are a pair of mice."

read more here:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n..._chimeras.html

[Demonhood]

the furries will be pleased.

[Cubeoid]

the who?

[Albert Pujols]

Originally posted by Cubeoid:
the who?

You don't want to know..

[DeathMan]

Originally posted by Albert Pujols:
You don't want to know..

quoted for emphasis.

[Chris O'Brien]

Ugh. I read this this morning, and haven't quite made up my mind about it...

A mate of mine made a good comment on it, though:

Now that is frightening, imagine them testing on mice and one day one of them turning around and saying 'Dah dee!'

Not gonna happen, but I thought it was funny nonetheless.

[brapper]

Originally posted by Albert Pujols:
You don't want to know..

Double quoted for emphasis.
Anyone else get creeped out around Halloween seeing an animal costume..

[f1000]

Humanimal? Been there, done that:

[John Q. Smith]

Originally posted by FulcrumPilot:
"For example, an experiment that would raise concerns, he said, is genetically engineering mice to produce human sperm and eggs, then doing in vitro fertilization to produce a child whose parents are a pair of mice."

read more here:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n..._chimeras.html

"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!" Perhaps soon this insult will have a stronger meaning!

[Mrjinglesusa]

Originally posted by Albert Pujols:
You don't want to know..

Triple quoted for even more emphasis. There was a thread here awhile back that actually had some pictures of of them. Quite disturbing.

[John Q. Smith]

Originally posted by Mrjinglesusa:
Triple quoted for even more emphasis. There was a thread here awhile back that actually had some pictures of of them. Quite disturbing.

oh no i couldn't resist!

[spiky_dog]

there are less sensational uses of chimeras that justify continued research. while lending themselves less to lines from monty python, they also offer hope that some day human tissues could be harvested for use in transplant or therapy.

[John Q. Smith]

if animals are used to grow human tissue, then humans might as well be used to grow animal tissue. while the latter seems unethical now, it would be morally equivalent to the former after the line between humans and animals becomes blurred.

I'm not arguing against it, just offering some food for thought.

[CD Hanks]

Originally posted by John Q. Smith:
if animals are used to grow human tissue, then humans might as well be used to grow animal tissue. while the latter seems unethical now, it would be morally equivalent to the former after the line between humans and animals becomes blurred.

I'm not arguing against it, just offering some food for thought.

That necessitates an automatic assumption that animals are on an equal plane with humans in a sense of general ethics and morality.

A lot of people don't agree with that. I'm one of them.

[John Q. Smith]

I was going to argue that two rats would have the same ethical status as a human if they mated and produced an human child, but the whole scenario was so ridiculous and laughable that I gave up.

[Apple Pro Underwear]

Originally posted by John Q. Smith:
[img]http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Vandringar/costume3.jpg[img]

if batman was a furry


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