Human-pig 'chimera embryos' detailed

Science | 208416 hits | Jan 26 9:20 pm | Posted by: N_Fiddledog

Embryos that are about 0.001% human could lead to human organs being grown in animals.

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by N_Fiddledog
Fri Jan 27, 2017 5:22 am
"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
by rickc
Fri Jan 27, 2017 5:37 am
A pig man? Sounds like a Seinfeld episode to me!
by N_Fiddledog
Fri Jan 27, 2017 7:45 am
What can you say? The thinker behind the Pig Man hypothesis was ahead of his time.
by DrCaleb
Fri Jan 27, 2017 4:22 pm
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.
by PluggyRug
Fri Jan 27, 2017 9:00 pm
"DrCaleb" said
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.

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