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LadyConstanze -> RE: Human Animal Hybrids (7/27/2011 2:59:06 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DeviantlyD
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/labs-grow-human-animal-hybrids/story-e6frf7jo-1226100312444
The story is written in a completely sensationalist way, I would really have liked to read a bit more about the research, instead they just went on about creating those strange mutations and everybody is on about Frankenstein's lab, or Jurassic Park, they are not creating human apes or creatures out of horror movies, from my understanding (and somebody please correct me if I am wrong) they are implanting part of the DNA into another cell to find out if they can cure certain diseases. As to the fertilizing animal eggs with human sperm, doesn't work, the Minotaurus is part of legend, and despite certain rumors about what people in remote parts of the country do with sheep and goats, so far I haven't seen "offspring" of those unions. If you cross a horse and a donkey, the mule is infertile and their genes are a damned lot closer than humans and apes. So this whole idea of creating some horror park is a bit far fetched.
The fact that they took it from the Daily Mail should be enough to make people pause...
To put it rather simple, those are just cells, the animal DNA has to be removed and is replaced with human DNA, they are just used to harvest the stem cells for stem cell research, in the hope to cure diseases. We are not talking about half animal, half human creatures, we are talking about cells, stem cells that have the possibility to grow into different tissue. The aim is to - at one point in the future - transplant the cells, use the stem cells and cure a disease.
Is there a moral component? Yes certainly, but to be honest the moral component of somebody dying or suffering from a disease that could be cured by more research into this outweights it.
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