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Animal-human embryos questioned

By T.K. Randall
February 9, 2009 · Comment icon 10 comments

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Scientists in Britain sparked significant controversy recently when it was revealed that human DNA could be combined with animal eggs in an attempt to produce stem cells, however a new study now claims that doing so would be pointless as the technique would fail to generate any stem cells in the first place.
It may be futile to try producing stem cells by putting human DNA into cow or rabbit eggs and making hybrid cloned embryos, a strategy that triggered controversy recently in Britain, a new study says. The animal eggs don't reprogram human DNA in the right way to generate stem cells, researchers report."


Source: CBS News | Comments (10)




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Comment icon #1 Posted by raphnix 15 years ago
However, more and more genealogist will try to research and seek success on this. Since human cloning is just as reachable as genetically cultured livestock, it could be just a matter of time.
Comment icon #2 Posted by GypsyWolf 15 years ago
The only thing I can think of is what would be produced from such a hybridization. Rabbit people? Cow people? Dear Lord, the furries will cream themselves. But this sounds like it would fail-- human and animal cloning is possible but hybridizing human and animal DNA will probably fail since sperm from one species cannot fertilize that of another. If that were the case we would have hordes of catdogs or skunkcats or horsecows or Heaven knows what out there. I can't believe scientist thought this up. I am all for stem cell research however, but not this way.
Comment icon #3 Posted by MrRandomGuy 15 years ago
These scientists lack basic common sense. If the sperm and egg are incompatible together than everything else would be too!
Comment icon #4 Posted by Exterminator 15 years ago
Imagine Human-tigers and Elephant-humans of titanic strength...
Comment icon #5 Posted by raphnix 15 years ago
I think mutants will emerged not because of evolution from adaptation but from useless experiments.
Comment icon #6 Posted by Copasetic 15 years ago
The only thing I can think of is what would be produced from such a hybridization. Rabbit people? Cow people? Dear Lord, the furries will cream themselves. But this sounds like it would fail-- human and animal cloning is possible but hybridizing human and animal DNA will probably fail since sperm from one species cannot fertilize that of another. If that were the case we would have hordes of catdogs or skunkcats or horsecows or Heaven knows what out there. I can't believe scientist thought this up. I am all for stem cell research however, but not this way. These scientists lack basic common se... [More]
Comment icon #7 Posted by PaperMoon 15 years ago
They should not be playing around with that stuff!! They are going to end up creating something and setting somehting in motion that will doom all mankind.
Comment icon #8 Posted by PaperMoon 15 years ago
The only thing I can think of is what would be produced from such a hybridization. Rabbit people? Cow people? Dear Lord, the furries will cream themselves. But this sounds like it would fail-- human and animal cloning is possible but hybridizing human and animal DNA will probably fail since sperm from one species cannot fertilize that of another. If that were the case we would have hordes of catdogs or skunkcats or horsecows or Heaven knows what out there. I can't believe scientist thought this up. I am all for stem cell research however, but not this way. Naturally it's impossible, but they w... [More]
Comment icon #9 Posted by AGoodWriter 15 years ago
I wish they would go and do more clever things. Like clear up some pollutions instead.
Comment icon #10 Posted by PaperMoon 15 years ago
I wish they would go and do more clever things. Like clear up some pollutions instead. Exactly!!!


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