Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy
Posted January 29, 2011
on:Scientists have begun blurring the line between human and animal by producing chimeras—a hybrid creature that’s part human, part animal.
Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University in 2003 successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs. The embryos were reportedly the first human-animal chimeras successfully created. They were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory dish before the scientists destroyed the embryos to harvest their stem cells.
In Minnesota last year researchers at the Mayo Clinic created pigs with human blood flowing through their bodies.
And at Stanford University in California an experiment might be done later this year to create mice with human brains.
Scientists feel that, the more humanlike the animal, the better research model it makes for testing drugs or possibly growing “spare parts,” such as livers, to transplant into humans.
Watching how human cells mature and interact in a living creature may also lead to the discoveries of new medical treatments.
But creating human-animal chimeras—named after a monster in Greek mythology that had a lion’s head, goat’s body, and serpent’s tail—has raised troubling questions: What new subhuman combination should be produced and for what purpose? At what point would it be considered human? And what rights, if any, should it have?
There are currently no U.S. federal laws that address these issues.
6 Responses to "Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy"
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and it will be like in the days of NOHA
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What does the "hu" part of the term human stand for? I suspect it stands for "highly unlikely" man, in that had nature been left to pursue its natural course, it would have been highly unlikely to produce us as we are presently constructed.
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Ohio's Ban on Human Cloning and Animal-Human HybridContact: Chris Long, Ohio Christian Alliance, 330-887-1922MEDIA ADVISORY, Feb. 18, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ — Ohio Christian Alliance President Chris Long made the following statement:"For the past eight years, OCA has been working with members of the Ohio Legislature to ban embryonic stem cell research, human cloning, and in recent years, animal-human hybrid. Science has advanced to the point where DNA from animals and humans can be intermixed in scientific laboratory experimentation. These experimental practices simply are outrageous! Animal-human hybrid research is currently being conducted in England, which many in the international medical community now consider to be a rogue medical state. It is now known that some experimentation has taken place in some U.S. laboratories. Ohio Christian Alliance commends State Senator Kris Jordan from Ohio's 19th District for taking the leadership role in sponsoring this key legislation."Leading the testimony on this legislative ban will be Dr. David Prentice of the Family Research Council who states, "Creating 'experimental humans' through nuclear transfer cloning or as animal-human hybrids is an unethical use of science, and will not lead to useful medical treatments for patients. This bill should be passed quickly and the focus should be on ethical and successful research that puts the patients first."Ohio Christian Alliance believes that no human life should begin and end as the subject of an experiment. We attest that a process that knowingly encourages human life to be created, manipulated for research, and ultimately destroyed is immoral and should be prohibited. And all who believe that human life, including nascent human life, is a unique and precious gift from our Creator have an obligation to support efforts to ban it. The bottom line is still that any ban short of a total prohibition on human cloning further devalues the sanctity of human life.
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people are sick.if we are hybrids,and i cant say yay or nay because i was not there in the begining ,it was probably arrogant beings trying to play god.nature,earth,is our divine sustainer,and if arrogant beings would quit playing god,putting themselves above her,using,raping,abusing and altering her for their own convieniences we probably wouldnt NEED things like stem cell research.get a god
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this can't be real
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January 29, 2011 at 1:24 pm
What do you think humans are? come on now!! We are 100% provenfact hybrids. Where have you been?