Just a few highlights though...
For example, an experiment that would raise concerns, he said, is genetically engineering mice to produce human sperm and eggs, then doing in vitro fertilization to produce a child whose parents are a pair of mice.
Before you think that's not yet possible... Mice Used as Sperm Factories for Pigs, Goats
I'm sorry, but this stuff is terrifying to me. And I'm not religious. I'm sure a more religious person would be beside themselves.
Could you imagine a "sick" doctor doing "tests" in a third world country on humans?
Or "Pinky and the Brain" anyone? Later this year he may conduct another experiment where the mice have 100 percent human brains. This would be done, he said, by injecting human neurons into the brains of embryonic mice. This is my new signature.
Last edited by fxashun; 02-06-2008 at 08:08 PM.
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