--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_y..., "El B-o" <clevelandrocks_138_at_y...> wrote:
> --- In SkunkworksAMA_at_y..., "realstitchno1" <-stitch-_at_t...> wrote:
> > --- In SkunkworksAMA_at_y..., Yoose9_at_a... wrote:
> > > A scientist took a cow embryo and took out the insides. He then
> > swabbed his
> > > check for white blood cells and put them in the embryo and let
it
> > grow to 28
> > > cells before termination it would have been 95% Human. So any
invitro
> > > fertilization clinic can hollow out a human egg and insert some
> > animal DNA
> > > and make a chimera or anthromorph. Think about it, It's that
simple IM
> > > certain that other countries have already created living
chimeras.
> > Do a
> > > little research on chimeras and Jeremy Rifkin or go to
> > http://www.foet.org/ .
> >
> > WOW! If i worked on sutch company i would defently make some
secret
> > experiments
>
> Oh my gosh... someone actually did this? Sweet!
The problem with such experiments is that in the state of 28 cells,
there is no way to determine if the grown embryo will be able to
survive, since there is very little difference between an 28 cell cow
embry and an 28 cell human embryo. Just randomly inserting some
animal DNA won't do much either, especially when it comes to
antropomorpic human-animal crossovers. The term "chimera" is somehow
misleading here, since most chimeras that exist today are just
bacteria having a certain enzyme of a different bacterium, for
example- Adding an animal head or even a tail to a human would be
impossible, since even with the human genome completely sequenced
nobody knows how such things like the from of your nose are encoded
in your DNA.
The experiments that you read about in the papers, like goat-sheep
hybids and the like are more or less random and work only with a few
creatures that are closely relatedto each other, like a horse and a
donkey (whick works even without any biochemisty at all !). And if
you hollow out an animal egg and insert human DNA, the result would
probably be nearly completely human, because almost all animal traits
would have been encoded in the animal DNA you just scraped out of the
animal cell. But with the current rate of progress in lifesciences
today, who knows what will be possible in 30 years?
Received on Mon Oct 21 2002 - 15:50:50 CDT