Dabbling In The Grotesque - Gene Editing, Human/Animal Hybrids - Monstrous Creations On The Horizon Or Do They Already Exist?
A couple recent news articles had me kicking the search engines into high gear and the results are not just astounding, but disturbing, as experimentation in the name of "science" and "curing diseases" not only bring up moral and ethical issues, but are actually reminiscent of science fiction horror movies like "The Island Of Doctor Moreau."
As the media breathlessly reports how human-animal hybrids are being grown for organ transplants, and how scientists in the UK get the go-ahead for gene editing, and how one Spanish scientist working at the Salk Institute in California claims the Pope gave his blessing "to inject human stem cells into early-stage animal embryos, then try to grow the mixtures inside surrogate animals," a look through headlines from the past decade shows that researchers and scientists have been playing God far longer than many know.
Chimera: Def.1 - a mythological, fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. Def. 4 - Genetics. an organism composed of two or more genetically distinct tissues, as an organism that is partly male and partly female, or an artificially produced individual having tissues of several species.
In 2005 the AP reported how scientists were creating "animals that are part human," using stem experimentation leading to the gentic mixing of species."
In 2011 it was reported in The Daily Mail that "150 human animal hybrids grown in UK labs," but it was the next part of the headline that brings up the question of how much scientific research has been conducted into creating human/animal hybrids, in secret... news that doesn't get reported.
The second part of that headline was "Embryos have been produced secretively for the past three years."
The hybrids have been produced secretively over the past three years by researchers looking into possible cures for a wide range of diseases.
More at site
A couple recent news articles had me kicking the search engines into high gear and the results are not just astounding, but disturbing, as experimentation in the name of "science" and "curing diseases" not only bring up moral and ethical issues, but are actually reminiscent of science fiction horror movies like "The Island Of Doctor Moreau."
As the media breathlessly reports how human-animal hybrids are being grown for organ transplants, and how scientists in the UK get the go-ahead for gene editing, and how one Spanish scientist working at the Salk Institute in California claims the Pope gave his blessing "to inject human stem cells into early-stage animal embryos, then try to grow the mixtures inside surrogate animals," a look through headlines from the past decade shows that researchers and scientists have been playing God far longer than many know.
Chimera: Def.1 - a mythological, fire-breathing monster, commonly represented with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail. Def. 4 - Genetics. an organism composed of two or more genetically distinct tissues, as an organism that is partly male and partly female, or an artificially produced individual having tissues of several species.
In 2005 the AP reported how scientists were creating "animals that are part human," using stem experimentation leading to the gentic mixing of species."
In 2011 it was reported in The Daily Mail that "150 human animal hybrids grown in UK labs," but it was the next part of the headline that brings up the question of how much scientific research has been conducted into creating human/animal hybrids, in secret... news that doesn't get reported.
The second part of that headline was "Embryos have been produced secretively for the past three years."
The hybrids have been produced secretively over the past three years by researchers looking into possible cures for a wide range of diseases.
More at site
