Scientists create part human, part monkey embryos. What could go wrong? (1 Viewer)

[NorvilleBarnes]

For the first time, scientists have created embryos that are a mix of human and monkey cells. 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.

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[Parrothead]

that's bananas...

 

[Leroy Hoard]

that's bananas...

I'm split on that.

 

[identikit]

Hope there's no slip-up.

 

[Foosball God]

https://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/PotA-870x368.jpg

Just a matter of time

 

[Cold Dead Hands]

So, like the movie The Island but with really ugly people.

 

[Kal El]

So, like the movie The Island but with really ugly people.

That was a terrible movie, by the way. I also found the idea of a magazine sharing a name with a DBZ villain to be hilarious.

 

[foxco]

So, like the movie The Island but with really ugly people.

Your avatar fits this thread so perfectly. 

 

[Cold Dead Hands]

Your avatar fits this thread so perfectly. 

Mine is natural and beautiful. This is horrible and ugly. The only way we should be making mutant babies is with sex like God intended!

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Interesting that Chuck never told Kim Hunter to “take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!”

 

[Joe Mammy]

They first tried splicing with sheep and pigs. Utter failure.

Monkeys- EUREKA!

One day we'll probably have the poop toss in the Olympics.

 

[Hov34]

This is Ape####.

 

[Parrothead]

I'm a believer!

 

[The Z Machine]

Paging @Dr.Zaius

 

[Gr00vus]

From chimpana to chimpanzee....

 

[Mister CIA]

Tranimal?

 

[brun]

Coming soon, ManBearPig.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Still, the scientists who conducted the research, and some other bioethicists defended the experiment.

"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."

Maybe if we allowed people to be compensated for organ donations -- in other words, not impose a price ceiling of zero -- there wouldn't be a shortage.