Scientists Create Part Human, Part Monkey Embryos

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This mixed species are called Chimeras. According to the article "The embryos, described Thursday in the journal Cell, were created in part to try to find new ways to produce organs for people who need transplants, said the international team of scientists who collaborated in the work. But the research raises a variety of concerns."
Ethicists have the following concern: "The biggest concern, they said, is that someone could try to take this work further and attempt to make a baby out of an embryo made this way. Specifically, the critics worry that human cells could become part of the developing brain of such an embryo — and of the brain of the resulting animal."
https://www.npr.org/sections/health...early-embryos-that-are-part-human-part-monkey
Your thoughts?
 

I feel its wrong on so many levels. What's their objective? To harvest organs. So its ok to create a human/monkey then what, wait for it to become fully grown and then end its life? Animals have no feelings?

But they worry there could be human brain cells? Those cells might have cognitive human awareness.

:mad: :mad: :mad::mad: 😥
 
OneEyedDiva said:
This mixed species are called Chimeras. According to the article "The embryos, described Thursday in the journal Cell, were created in part to try to find new ways to produce organs for people who need transplants, said the international team of scientists who collaborated in the work. But the research raises a variety of concerns."
Ethicists have the following concern: "The biggest concern, they said, is that someone could try to take this work further and attempt to make a baby out of an embryo made this way. Specifically, the critics worry that human cells could become part of the developing brain of such an embryo — and of the brain of the resulting animal."
https://www.npr.org/sections/health...early-embryos-that-are-part-human-part-monkey
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wow Of course it tugs at the heartstrings to think organs can be created for those needing them.
I still wish we were smart enough/advanced enough to 'grow our own'. Geez if a salamander can regenerate body parts shouldn't we be able to regrow an organ??

BTW I really do feel this way :)
 
As I like to say time and again, "Welcome to the future". When Dolly the sheep was first cloned it was promised that cloning of humans would be illegal. But, now it seems cloning a mixed species is A-OK.
Concerning what Marci says about fooling with Mama Nature . . . too late. That bridge has been crossed and burned.:oops:
 
this part right here....

"This is one of the major problems in medicine — organ transplantation," said Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory of the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in La Jolla, Calif., and a co-author of the Cell study. "The demand for that is much higher than the supply."

this is because people are living longer. if they would just let us live our lives instead of constantly pushing us to be healthy and live longer maybe we wouldn't need these kinds of things. animals in the wild are usually left to live their lives and i don't understand why we can't be left alone. i'd rather eat myself to death than have some half monkey placed in me to make live longer.
 
Life is again imitating art as science fiction has taken us to this eventuality for years. Give The Island of Dr. Moreau a look; the 1997 film with Marlon Brando is quite a hoot, and there's no CGI in it...🦊

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And some bizarro world transplant of monkey to human and/or visa versa will spawn a real planet of the apes.

If I ever need a new organ I will consider it time to checkout and just ask for the final bill.
 

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