Scientists All Over The World Are Creating Extremely Bizarre Human-Animal Hybrids Should scientists be creating beings that are part human and part animal? Well, it is happening all over the planet. Just check out some of the things that a recent Slate article says is happening in labs around the world… Not long ago, Chinese scientists embedded genes for human milk proteins into a mouse’s genome. news.nationalgeographic/news/2009/06/090602-mice-milk-baby-formula.html They have since created herds of humanized-milk-producing goats. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22360490 Meanwhile, researchers at the University of Michigan have a method for putting a human anal sphincter into a mouse as a means of finding better treatments for fecal incontinence. sciencedirect/science/article/pii/S0016508511004392 and doctors are building animals with humanized immune systems to serve as subjects for new HIV vaccines. iavireport.org/Back-Issues/Pages/IAVI-Report-16%284%29-WIll-Humanized-Mice-Move-Us-Closer-to-an-AIDS-Vaccine.aspx (Scott Dro)
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 06:00:53 +0000
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