Enter, the Cybrids (Real human/animal hybrid research)
17 years ago
General
"The idea is to take an animal egg — say a cow egg — and remove its nucleus. This would remove most of the cow’s DNA from the egg. Human DNA would then be introduced, and the embryo would be allowed to begin to grow. (The introduction of human DNA would normally be done by putting an entire small cell, such as a skin cell, into the animal’s egg. On being zapped with electricity, the two cells readily fuse, and the nucleus of the skin cell then becomes the nucleus of the egg.) The new nucleus thus contains only human DNA. The technical term for this procedure is interspecies somatic cell nuclear transfer, or interspecies cloning.
If the embryo were allowed to keep growing, and was then implanted into a woman, it would — presumably, and assuming nothing went wrong — grow into a baby."
Whoa, say what? The Island of Doctor Moreau anyone? Actual animal human hybrids, for real, being made, read the article linked to to quote, it's ineteresting.
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If the embryo were allowed to keep growing, and was then implanted into a woman, it would — presumably, and assuming nothing went wrong — grow into a baby."
Whoa, say what? The Island of Doctor Moreau anyone? Actual animal human hybrids, for real, being made, read the article linked to to quote, it's ineteresting.
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» Baseball cap - $25: Black Dragon Cap
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Trades:
░▒OPEN▒░ Same as commissions. Just pitch me an idea. Just know there are some conditions: I'd really like you to enjoy what you're making for the trade so if the ol' "I'll Draw Your Character..." art is boring do something different (I like art that's personal to an artist's style), I like cool project ideas or unique patches so challenge me, and lastly never be afraid to ask for a trade.
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"However, the aim is not to produce humans this way; under the new law, embryos will have to be destroyed at 14 days (the time that the embryo begins to differentiate into cells of different types)."
bummer :<
But more seriously just not the sort of research I thought I'd hear was happening in my lifetime. And you know someone will break those rules at some point in a less regulated country.
this suddenly reminds me of an old RPG game, named \"Gamma World\". it takes place several hundred years after The Bomb, and everything mutates constantly. the societal elite fleeing for the bunkers are long since dead and gone...
my point is, you can meet every single idea of what might be an intelligent living, humans, animals, insects, hybrids of all kinds, even crystals and plants! thus, be careful what you eat. it might be intelligent and calling for backup. :)
Then again, it also reminds me of I Am Legend (Toward the end of the article): Yay, new genetic diseases... :shudder:
Yeah nothing like a pandemic flu crossing the species barrier because we made bird-human cells and didn't keep proper biohazard checks in place.