In Search For Cures, Scientists Create Embryos That Are Both Animal And Human

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A handful of scientists around the United States are trying to do something that some people find disturbing: make embryos that are part human, part animal.

The researchers hope these embryos, known as chimeras, could eventually help save the lives of people with a wide range of diseases.

One way would be to use chimera embryos to create better animal models to study how human diseases happen and how they progress.

Perhaps the boldest hope is to create farm animals that have human organs that could be transplanted into terminally ill patients......

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/05/18/478212837/in-search-for-cures-scientists-create-embryos-that-are-both-animal-and-human

[roamer_1]

As in the days of Noah.

[mirraflake]

As in the days of Noah.

30 years from now it will be commonplace..saving lives and your grandkids will wonder how we ever got by without it.

Back in the 1840's when anesthesia first came out the church/Christian faith was against it saying we were playing God.

[roamer_1]

30 years from now it will be commonplace..saving lives and your grandkids will wonder how we ever got by without it.

Back in the 1840's when anesthesia first came out the church/Christian faith was against it saying we were playing God.

This is no longer breaking the laws of Moses. This is messing with the very laws of Eden. Of Creation.

'Each according to it's kind.'

What hubris.

[mirraflake]

This is no longer breaking the laws of Moses. This is messing with the very laws of Eden. Of Creation.

'Each according to it's kind.'

What hubris.

We have been using pig heart valves for 30+ years maybe longer.

What about artificial (plastic) hearts.  They are going to be commonplace in 10 years.

Medical science is always going to expand.

[Fishrrman]