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Title: Now scientists create a sheep that's 15% human
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URL Source: http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/pages ... 36&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source
Published: Mar 26, 2007
Author: Claudia Joseph
Post Date: 2007-03-26 10:17:31 by christine
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Scientists have created the world's first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs. The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells - and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer. Professor Esmail Zanjani, of the University of Nevada, has spent seven years and £5million perfecting the technique, which involves injecting adult human cells into a sheep's foetus. He has already created a sheep liver which has a large proportion of human cells and eventually hopes to precisely match a sheep to a transplant patient, using their own stem cells to create their own flock of sheep. The process would involve extracting stem cells from the donor's bone marrow and injecting them into the peritoneum of a sheep's foetus. When the lamb is born, two months later, it would have a liver, heart, lungs and brain that are partly human and available for transplant. "We would take a couple of ounces of bone marrow cells from the patient,' said Prof Zanjani, whose work is highlighted in a Channel 4 programme tomorrow. "We would isolate the stem cells from them, inject them into the peritoneum of these animals and then these cells would get distributed throughout the metabolic system into the circulatory system of all the organs in the body. The two ounces of stem cell or bone marrow cell we get would provide enough stem cells to do about ten foetuses. So you don't just have one organ for transplant purposes, you have many available in case the first one fails." At present 7,168 patients are waiting for an organ transplant in Britain alone, and two thirds of them are expected to die before an organ becomes available. Scientists at King's College, London, and the North East Stem Cell Institute in Newcastle have now applied to the HFEA, the Government's fertility watchdog, for permission to start work on the chimeras. But the development is likely to revive criticisms about scientists playing God, with the possibility of silent viruses, which are harmless in animals, being introduced into the human race. Dr Patrick Dixon, an international lecturer on biological trends, warned: "Many silent viruses could create a biological nightmare in humans. Mutant animal viruses are a real threat, as we have seen with HIV." Animal rights activists fear that if the cells get mixed together, they could end up with cellular fusion, creating a hybrid which would have the features and characteristics of both man and sheep. But Prof Zanjani said: "Transplanting the cells into foetal sheep at this early stage does not result in fusion at all."
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#1. To: christine, leveller, aristeides, ..., Eoghan, IndieTX, JethroTull, all (#0)
Human-animal hybrids ping.
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
Why did God make Woman? Because He couldn't teach the sheep how to talk.
:P
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=25475&in_page_id=2 A man is accused of having sex with the carcass of a deer that he found lying beside the road – but his lawyer denies that he committed bestiality, on the grounds that a dead deer isn't an animal any more. 20-year-old Bryan James Hathaway of Superior, Wisconsin allegedly had sex with the deer corpse after he found it on the roadside on October 11 this year. Authorities say he told police that he noticed the deer lying in a ditch, and then moved the corpse into the woods.
Judge Michael Lucci noted when hearing the arguments that: 'I'm a little surprised this issue hasn't been tackled before in another case.' If Hathaway is convicted, he could serve up to two years in prison, because of a previous conviction in 2005 for shooting dead a horse called Bambrick. So that he could have sex with it. If he gets sentenced to jail, he could always sue out a writ of habeas corpse.
A real, live Sheeple.
That's not much of an accomplishment considering that the JooToob & George Bush have turned 30% of the people in this country into 100% sheep. :P
ha! good one. :P
Because He couldn't teach the sheep how to talk. heh.
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
My first thought was, "they're cloning Republicans?"
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
#2. To: bluedogtxn, christine, aristeides, ..., Eoghan, IndieTX, JethroTull, all (#1)
#3. To: leveller (#2)
#4. To: leveller (#2)
Animal Corpse Watch...
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#5. To: Eoghan (#4)
his lawyer denies that he committed bestiality, on the grounds that a dead deer isn't an animal any more. . . . .
#6. To: bluedogtxn (#1)
#7. To: christine (#0)
Now scientists create a sheep that's 15% human
#8. To: Esso (#7)
#9. To: leveller (#2)
Why did God make Woman?
#10. To: Jethro Tull (#6)
A real, live Sheeple.
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