[Newsbot]

Title: Human-pig 'chimera embryos' detailed
Category: Science
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2017-01-26 21:20:23

[N_Fiddledog]

"So far, none of the interspecies embryos have been allowed to grow beyond four weeks. However, the experiments are raising profoundly sticky moral and ethical issues - including the remote but not impossible risk human cells intended to morph into a new liver, pancreas or heart could wend their way up to the animal's brain. Could that part-human chimera somehow develop human consciousness?"

http://www.theprovince.com/scientists+c ... story.html

[rickc]

A pig man? Sounds like a Seinfeld episode to me!

[N_Fiddledog]

What can you say? The thinker behind the Pig Man hypothesis was ahead of his time.

[DrCaleb]

Discount it if you wish, but as someone who's lost a kidney to cancer, and knowing that we raise pigs for our table - I'm perfectly fine if the people suffering things like dialysis get a cure this way.

[PluggyRug]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Discount it if you wish, but as someone who's lost a kidney to cancer, and knowing that we raise pigs for our table - I'm perfectly fine if the people suffering things like dialysis get a cure this way.

I'm with you on that. Seems to me like a step in the right direction.