"So far, none of the interspecies embryos have been allowed to grow beyond four weeks. However, the experiments are raising profoundly sticky moral and ethical issues - including the remote but not impossible risk human cells intended to morph into a new liver, pancreas or heart could wend their way up to the animal's brain. Could that part-human chimera somehow develop human consciousness?"
Discount it if you wish, but as someone who's lost a kidney to cancer, and knowing that we raise pigs for our table - I'm perfectly fine if the people suffering things like dialysis get a cure this way.
"DrCaleb" said Discount it if you wish, but as someone who's lost a kidney to cancer, and knowing that we raise pigs for our table - I'm perfectly fine if the people suffering things like dialysis get a cure this way.
I'm with you on that. Seems to me like a step in the right direction.
http://www.theprovince.com/scientists+c ... story.html
Discount it if you wish, but as someone who's lost a kidney to cancer, and knowing that we raise pigs for our table - I'm perfectly fine if the people suffering things like dialysis get a cure this way.
I'm with you on that. Seems to me like a step in the right direction.