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Cool. When do we get to meet the new GF, Tlong?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770
Scientists have created the world's first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs.
The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells - and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer.
Professor Esmail Zanjani, of the University of Nevada, has spent seven years and £5million perfecting the technique, which involves injecting adult human cells into a sheep's foetus.
Chimera: sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells
He has already created a sheep liver which has a large proportion of human cells and eventually hopes to precisely match a sheep to a transplant patient, using their own stem cells to create their own flock of sheep.
The process would involve extracting stem cells from the donor's bone marrow and injecting them into the peritoneum of a sheep's foetus. When the lamb is born, two months later, it would have a liver, heart, lungs and brain that are partly human and available for transplant.
"We would take a couple of ounces of bone marrow cells from the patient,' said Prof Zanjani, whose work is highlighted in a Channel 4 programme tomorrow.
"We would isolate the stem cells from them, inject them into the peritoneum of these animals and then these cells would get distributed throughout the metabolic system into the circulatory system of all the organs in the body. The two ounces of stem cell or bone marrow cell we get would provide enough stem cells to do about ten foetuses. So you don't just have one organ for transplant purposes, you have many available in case the first one fails."
At present 7,168 patients are waiting for an organ transplant in Britain alone, and two thirds of them are expected to die before an organ becomes available.
Scientists at King's College, London, and the North East Stem Cell Ins ute in Newcastle have now applied to the HFEA, the Government's fertility watchdog, for permission to start work on the chimeras.
But the development is likely to revive criticisms about scientists playing God, with the possibility of silent viruses, which are harmless in animals, being introduced into the human race.
Dr Patrick Dixon, an international lecturer on biological trends, warned: "Many silent viruses could create a biological nightmare in humans. Mutant animal viruses are a real threat, as we have seen with HIV."
Animal rights activists fear that if the cells get mixed together, they could end up with cellular fusion, creating a hybrid which would have the features and characteristics of both man and sheep. But Prof Zanjani said: "Transplanting the cells into foetal sheep at this early stage does not result in fusion at all."
Cool. When do we get to meet the new GF, Tlong?
If the alternative is letting me die or resurrecting me and giving me a sheep's brain, just let me go.The process would involve extracting stem cells from the donor's bone marrow and injecting them into the peritoneum of a sheep's foetus. When the lamb is born, two months later, it would have a liver, heart, lungs and brain that are partly human and available for transplant.
Wow, this guy got 5 million pounds for injecting human cells into a sheep, and tlong has been doing it for free.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Mental image.....
That'll be a new keyboard Shoog.
Apple wireless please.
What do you think we've been talking about all this time? Candlelight dinners and gentle necking?
Just wrong.
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Reinforcements are on the way Yoni.
Yes, but the word "injecting" brought up unnecssary images.
I'd hit it.
i told y'all vaccines were bad.
oh baby
I wonder if that happened, you would wear even more sweaters than usual.
Sheep are notoriously stupid... their brains aren't going to help anyone.
Do you really think it's kind to make jokes about the sacredness of our marital relations?
Besides - you should know by now that Tlong is shooting blanks. Whatever he injects me with is DNA free.
I'd hit it.
/porn addiction forum.
Science on the bleeding edge.
Spooky to say the least. On a slippery slope we slide along.
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In a few years they can remake Charlotte's Web, or Babe or something like that and not even have to use special effects to make the sheep talk. This stuff has a mul ude of practical applications.
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