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"Cow-human cross embryo lives three days"
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Cow-human cross embryo lives three days
HUMAN-cow embryos have been created in a world first at Newcastle University in England, hailed by the scientific community, but labelled "monstrous" by opponents.
A team has grown hybrid embryos after injecting human DNA into eggs taken from cows' ovaries, which had most of their genetic material removed.
The embryos survived for three days and are intended to provide a limitless supply of stem cells to develop therapies for diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and spinal cord injuries, overcoming a worldwide shortfall in human embryos.
Dr Teija Peura, director of human embryonic stem cell laboratories at the Australian Stem Cell Centre, said somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) had been done between animal species, but the "99 per cent human" embryos could boost research.
"If successful, they would provide an important additional research tool to help realisation of stem cell-based therapies for human diseases," Dr Peura said.
"All avenues of research, including SCNT . . . need to be encouraged if we want to fulfil the promises of stem cell technologies."
But her colleague, Dr Andrew Laslett, warned the process was yet to yield a stem cell line and so it remained only an academic possibility.
In January, the Fertilisation and Embryology Authority gave Newcastle University a licence to do the work, but the British Parliament would debate the longer-term future of such research next month.
Under the licence, embryos are not allowed to be developed beyond 14 days.
Preliminary findings of the embryo program were presented in Israel last week, and the head of the university's Institute of Human Genetics, Prof John Burn, said further evaluation would be done before the full details were published.
"If the team can produce cells which will survive in culture, it will open the door to a better understanding of disease processes without having to use precious human eggs," Prof Burn said.
"Cells grown using animal eggs cannot be used to treat patients on safety grounds, but they will help bring nearer the day when new stem cell therapies are available."
The Catholic Church in Britain branded the creations as "monstrous" - a view supported by Caroline Chisholm Centre for Health Ethics director Fr Kevin McGovern.
"An almost-human embryo is being created and then it's being destroyed," he said.
"I cannot see that that respects human life or the dignity of human life.
"Human beings - or even almost human embryos - are not just things that you can use in a laboratory experiment.
"What is being created is life.
"No one knows exactly what would grow from these embryos.
"If this is approved in the UK, there will be renewed pressure to permit it here, and we will travel further down the slippery slope of allowing just about anything."
It is not the first time hybrids have been created.
The method was pioneered by Dr Hui Zhen Sheng's team at the Shanghai Second Medical University, China, where she fused human cells with rabbit eggs to produce early stage embryos, which in turn yielded human stem cells.
animal cruelty. and that poor cow has a tag punched in his ear.
Re: Dumb Allana – LOL i agree with you. she must be about 13.
The Nazi's did human experimentation and it had some benefits for us and science, how does that make you feel?
absolutely 100% disgusting
if this will help cure Parkinson and Alzheimer, then go for it
Re: OMG!!! – UH for one thing, the "pregnant man" is a transgendered FEMALE who has kept "his" reproductive organs. if you had read properly, you'd know that.
aka, born a female, took testerone hormone, developed male characteristics, and decided to stop to get pregnant and carry the child his wife could not. as soon as he gives birth, he'll go back to his male hormone shots. there. i saved you 15 seconds of websurfing.
Re: nasa – they need to stay away from state schools, too!
the poor cow embryos
although this is obviously very sick,
and wrong. for some reason it takes sick moves like this to give us things that we rely on today like hitler doing DIGUSTING experiments on people during the Holocaust, but we still use the findings for cures and other important life saving things.
and by the way, i live in newcastle,
Re: tiana – real dumb!
Some people have not got a clue. Cows aren't dying for this and the only animal part is the shell. This is because they can;t get enough human eggs to use for this (very important) work
Re: i,m luba – Too bad you have 6 of them!
I love how only HUMAN eggs are precious. fuck everything else *eyeroll*
Why is THAT such a NON issue, aye Catholics????
I think this is great news.
We need more stem cells to be able to do more research.
furthermore, I would totally donate my eggs to stemcell research if I was paid good money for it. The government needs to fund that research… then they will have enough "precious human eggs"
This is probably a good way to get them to do it actually, get everyone up in arms thinking we're starting to breed human cows lmao.
WELL, IT EXPLAINS MY SISTER-IN-LAW!
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Re: EuropEll –
yes there is a good reason for doing all of this, to give researchers more resources in order to help find cures for diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and Multiple Sclerosis. It says so right in the article.
Re: Carli – EXACTLY Carli!
What makes me sick is how human eggs are refered to as "precious"–but it's like: "animal eggs? Bah! Who cares about those?! Experiment all you want!"
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Fucking PATHETIC! What makes you assholes believe that humans are the ONLY life forms that deserve respect? Once you get your ignorant heads out of your asses maybe you will learn to understand that ALL living things desrve respect–and that INCLUDES ANIMALS.
Fuckwits.
This is just wrong.
theres allready human cow cross,its called southern oregon,man the harpoons!!
After reading a few other posts, I see that one or two people assume that only religious types are against this. I am against this, and I have no plans to worship any god at any point in my life. I just believe it's wrong, because it's not natural. Since when is it a good idea to take animal bits and human bits and mix them together? So we want to live forever, healthy and disease free. We want to pevert nature, for our own selfish purposes. Oh yes, it's selfish alright. Instead of coming to grips with our own mortality (which we'll all have to do, because we STILL all die sooner or later), we scrabble around like rats in a maze - looking for an exit.
for all you who dont gree with stem cell research: i hope your loved one get altzimer or end up on a wheel chair then see how important your dumb arguments are
why cant they just leave the world as it is and stop doing all this shit. we were fine without it.
The line was crossed a long time ago. Once you step over the line you can't go back. This story is just sick. Period. Stem cell research is very controversial, we all know that. Can't you get beneficial research from stem cells obtained from the umbilical cord? I don't agree with creating human life just to harvest stem cells and then destroying it. The cow story and the rabbit story are just sick. I don't even want to know what is next.
can somebody direct me to the passage in the bible where it says "thou shalt not use stem cell research to help thyself live longer." thank you!
EW THATS SICK!
Re: Ms. Ink – when you get MS i doubt you will be saying the same thing!
We keep playing God and will have night of the living dead. Instead of man eats cow it will be cow eats man…
so wrong..
I'm clearly against Animal Testing in Universitys, or anywhere, and I found this idea very stupid, and they shouldn't be doing this to helpless animals. God made them in a way to be not human. They are different kind of species, Human Cow? C'mon people get your head checked.
Ok, i must have a World of Warcraft addiction because my 1st thought was, "I wonder if it would look like a Tauren!"
this is ABSOLUTELY inhumane and disgusting.. we should not be putting these poor animals in danger for something so fucking ridiculous
It kinda looks like PerezHilton.
HOW AMAZING!!!
I am a strong stem cell research supporter stuck in the bible belt where its looked at as monsterous. Who cares if it has to do with a cow, one day it could help save your life. And for the millions of human embryos already fertilized thrown out by fertility clinics, donating them to science instead could make such a difference in the lives of this whole world!
SOOOO WRONG!!!!!! OH MY GOD! Is this the Isle of Dr Moreaux now!? That is so wrong, so wrong. Cross animal to animal egg/sperm/dna but not human!! WTF!!!!! I bet these are males doing this. Men are fucked up. This must stop. This should be illegal everywhere. I don't know about animals but humans have souls and are intelligent, and to cross a human being with an animal is evil. Just evil and it makes me sad. Creating human hybrids is wrong.
Okay they already have and for years and years created human ears on the backs of mice and INH has since the early 70-'s combined gene pools of animals like the rabbitchicken ect. nothing new.
Some people should not breed and yet they do……
So people bitch about using unwanted human embryos for research, then call it "monstrous" when we figure out something else to use?
I think all you religious freaks need to just shut the fuck up and let science do whatever it can to cure disease and prolong the human life. Radical Christians were responsible for the first Dark Age and if we keep listening to them like we are now we're going to have another massive scientific setback on our hands.
cows are not dying for this, but I have a feeling this cow is not living life in a pasture as a cow should either. Someone is probably showing their fist up it's ass to get the egg or wherever, cows just don't drop their eggs out of the sky….these scientists are no better than the goddamn nazis that experimented on humans….I wish that whatever abuse a scientist does to an animal, they get that same treatment in return. we humans think we are so much better than animals, but look at how we EFFED up the world
It's wrong when they "experiment" with living breathing organisms
in the name of science.
It's murder.
Altering DNA on embryos to make a hybrid whatever
just like they are trying to take chicken embryos and make them grow
dinosaur tails or scales…
The embryos feel pain
this is just wrong on all levels
Its so the LIMIs can drink more BEER at the PUBS!!!!!!!!
Re: caitlin – U stupid bitch let me tell u something about my "GOD" num 1 he looks after dumb assholes like u and if he wanted cows mixed with funcking humans then im sure he would've done it himself, hell he made EVERYTHING in this earth and around it! And my "GOD"is the one that gives man knowledge u stupid bitch. Next time his name is in your mouth and u disrespecting i hope u choke on it u dumb slut!!!!!!! Have a blessed day!!!!
They aren't creating Man-Cow hybrids you friggin PETA morons.
They're just trying to figure out a way to do stem cell research without angering the religious whackos. They could get much more research done if they could use ACTUAL HUMAN EMBRYOS which are not alive or able to feel pain, but because they can't, they're creating embryos using cow ovaries and trying to do the same research that they would do with human embryos.
No cow is being hurt, just like no human would be hurt if they used human embryos. Naturally, the Catholic church still isn't happy with it, but that's a given for any scientific development.
Re: ashley – Re: ashley – Human Stem Cell research is not illegal in the US. Bush simply does not allow Federal funding for it. California however has voted for taxpayer funded stem cell research. To say that is illegal is incorrect.
Re: vision –
Did you even read the article?
They aren't doing experiments on anything living or breathing.
Also, I'd love to see one credible source that states that embryos can feel pain.
For your own sake, educate yourself and stop listening and regurgitating what the religious majority tells you.
Re: vision –
lol you're wrong. quit inhibiting progress with your stupid emotions
Sounds intuitively wrong, but how many meds are used on humans based on animal testing alone? And then trialled (mostly) on adult males as they are the people who mostly resond to calls for test subjects? Anti-depreesants used on children are never tested on children before approval.
omg this is horrible!
And somehow the potato-human embryo is able to go clubbing every night.
FFS people, use your minds. How else are the scientists going to get the stem cells to study terrible diseases? Don't you want them to find a cure, or a treatment that works. Oh, and there won't EVER be a human-cow hybrid! NEVER! Why? Because THEY ARE NOT EVEN THE SAME SPECIES! Your ignorance BURNS! It is not possible. They can't even prove that there could be a human-chimp hybrid, and they are the closest genetically to us. We have one less pair of chromosomes than chimps. If you don't know about something, or don't understand, GO READ ABOUT IT OR ASK! That isn't stupid. But to let your fear blind you, and just say "ick" when you don't even know. That is harmful, because it is people like you, politicians in their blind fear, who make legislation that makes it harder to research horrible diseases to find effective treatments for them, or maybe even a cure. People are suffereing every day, and more are being born to suffer, and we could be finding ways to improve their lives if people would only THINK before they react.
Re: Leggy – Maybe you don't see any difference between yourself and a cow! But some people do.
After reading the majority of comments here (I liken that to self-abuse) I realized that most of you form an opinion about things based on ONLY what you read at this site. That's pretty pathetic people (IMHO) as Perez is a nobody that thinks he is special and has fallen into the trap of believing his own hype.
If you want to know what the cow/human research was about then this ain”t the place - and most of the comments reflect total ignorance of what is going on. There is no cow/human babies going to be born.
However…having swai that - imagine (guys) a woman with multiple nipples - and feeding kids would be easier - plus she could graze and save the guys from cutting the lawn - a lawn-moo-er so to speak.
And how else can you explain Ann Coulter?
Truly frightening!
FANTASTIC - HORRIBLE diseases will be cured by these great intelligent scientists FYI - cow DNA removed from the cells How do you think we have all the vaccines we have now ?? - Great Ideas By Great Thinkers
if anyone actually thinks this is weird or scary… i recomend they actually get an education.
i know its hard for you americans to read books but TRY! for the love of god TRY!
relax. it is all hopefully done with care meaning care to the human/cows as well
as the beneficial results for suffering humans. if this care is first in foremost then it is respecting and preserving the one life in everything in the interconnected universe. i am no better than the worst i see and no worst then the best i see. namaste you crazy
motherfuckers who read perezhilton daily…you are me…i love perez!
Re: Udderly Cool – i only have 2 and they are beauties
relax. it is all hopefully done with care meaning care to the human/cows as well
as the beneficial results for suffering humans. if this care is first and foremost then it is respecting and preserving the one life in everything in our interconnected universe. i am no better than the worst i see and no worst then the best i see. namaste you crazy motherfuckers who read perezhilton daily…you are me…i love perez!
Re: Elsie – How do you feel about pet owners? You remove animals from their natural habitat and neutralize them, take away something from them that is very natural to them, but is inconvenient for us. Isn't that messing with nature? How is that different? Yet so many people do it. And we cross breeds to alter them, so that they look more like a doll, it's not that they existed from the beginning and needed our help to survive!
Who in the world approved this and said it was play? I don't recall any "civilians" being consulted on this matter. And honestly, a cow and a human? WTF!
heyy this is weird, I don't have much grasp on the science but it's still a very interesting story and topic. This is to cure human beings. It's better than to systematically and senselessly kill animals and eat them.
Re: caitlin –
i fucking agree.
seriously.
that is one of the smartest things i've read on this site.. ever.
I think if its for stem cell research its ok at least theyre not using babys
Steakbabies…..medium rare please!!!! YUM
Whats with stupid ,cool wannabe americans writing "FIRST" for every stupid thing??
Americans are drowning in stupidity
Re: sandra – Nice - I hope all this research helps in curing bad grammar and spelling too
Now kindly STFU and return to your double-wide and get your uncle-daddy another drink
How do you know that "stupid americans" are the ones writing first? i do agree that its stupid,but stop being such a hateful little bitch!!!
Did we learn nothing from Island of Doctor Moreau??!
Re: tinks – Okay–that was really funny!
THAT IS SO WRONG
Re: AMIE – you're an idiot.
Re: jay – and how do YOU know that she/he is either little or a bitch?
Fucking American or what?
Re: MJ – You kiddin' me" That movie was fiction - not a fucking documentary
Re: Well WTF – Stupid comes in all shapes, sizes, colors and Creeds. It is not Nation specific. It is everywhere humans are. The thing that sets humans apart is our minds. We can choose to use them, to keep them sharp, so that we think before we act, or we can chooose to live more primal lives, letting our Alligator brains take control until we are blinded by fear. I choose to use my mind, and I see now that there are a few others who also do. This comforts me.
Re: jay – Medium rare? mmmmm with a hint of garlic and a sprig of parley
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Re: Tiandu – Well spoken
I retain hope for the species
omg !
Can you say "Crock of shit"?
It is amazing to me how ignorant cretain people (apperently on this site the majority) can be. Those who actually think that there are going to be human/cow hybrids grazing the fields or that humans are "mating" with cows do us all a favore and read a book - for once in your life. further more those who question the good in this research need to consider the human lives that could benifit. P.S. no animal or human was harmed… cow EGGS and human DNA.
Re: Sabrina – Crock of shit - NOW - I want a prize. No, really…I want one - it's my RIGHT! I am an American - I DESERVE something. Anything.
I WANT!
Al Gore=his created Hedge Fund…which = more money than Exon + companies ever made. Al Gore has created a Hedge fund for Green inititaves. Follow that money…..
Re: Read a book. – Breeding with cows is just plain wrong - unless y'all gots a license - now me 'n' my Texas cuzzins luv a little cow luv and I knows thats theres cow/hooman hybrids.
I mean really, all y'all intulectool book learnin types thinks ya knows it all
But puh-leeze - For somebody names Read a book - can you spell? Put a literate sentence together? Fucking all this site attracts - American retards
It's been done…haven't you met ponygirl? She's a big fat cow!
Re: Parrot Boy – I was born in the USA, in Kansas. However, I consider myself a World citizen. (Something about Kansas' motto "Ad Astra Per Aspera To the Stars Through Difficulties" at least partly.)
Anyway, I know, that my soul holds weight. I am worth just as much as anyone else. I am deserving of a modicum of courtesy. Just as you are. I can be silly, or even stupid. That is my right. I can choose to be illogical if I want to, but I am usually careful about choosing to do so, and spend such chances usually on "Because that is just how I want to do it, that's why!" or being silly in public than being stubborn and harmful with it. I guess what I am trying to say is, what you are seeing, largely is fellow humans wanting to be "seen", to be "heard". But, I don't think they know that themselves. Not all Americans are ugly, please try to remember that. Some of us do think of others, and do have manners, and do really care about the Global Ecosystem and other people's cultures. I think cultural pollution is a Sin myself. Meh, I'm philosophical today, gotta be because I'm enduring allergy season.
Re: Tiandu – I hear you - I have no more claim to anything than you or the next guy (or girl for that matter) BUT - damn this site brings out more hate than any site I know and frankly - it's mainly Americans. I am willing to accord any and all the modicum of respect (at this point we have lost about 90% of the blog) if the ignorance can stop. I mean really - have you read most of the posts here? Too many folk take their lead from the headline as posted by Perez (and their respective opinions) - who demonstrate a classic (as seen by other cultures) ignorance of most facts - and seize the opportunity to spew hate to compensate for a lacking in their own lives.
I KNOW that many Americans are NOT ignorant - it's just this site seems like a magnet (Damn! I'm no better ’cause I'm posting this) If enough folk realized that this site is merely a home for hate then perhaps it would die a natural death. If not, then it reflects the state of culture.
go China!
The world is going to hell in a handbasket.
uhh…i dont know if i agree with that or not ?!?
"Almost human" in terms of using our own genetic code. Remember we discard our genes whenever we cut our fingers, have a nose bleed, spit on the sidewalk, etc. Using our sequence in this matter is not only productive to the scientific community, but can drastically improve the human condition/life if it's viable. I don't see anything wrong in this.
Re: Parrot Boy – Hate is a human emotion, you know this. And, hate doesn't always have to destroy. Just usually when people are being proactive they phrase it "I abhor the idea of child labor!" See? If people have no outlet for their negativity, it will stay inside and fester. (Yes, I think we should talk about the "taboo" subjects, so we can admit that we all have a darker side, and realize we can tell it "NO!" more often than we do.) And, be fair. Perez does try to help out in the world by linking to various charity sites. But he is just one person, he can't control everyone else. He can just slyly influence them to think with their minds and their hearts. I see that sometimes, those he "darts" do get the help they need. Sometimes it takes a cruel clue by four to wake even a celebrity up.
WTF?! I like how the opponents think this is monstrous because it's destroying almost human embryos and NOT the fact that it's a human-cow hybrid!!! Hell-oOoh?!
Re: eLo – It isn't a human cow hybrid. The headline writer was a moron, and people aren't correcting the idiocy when the post the story. A human-cow hybrid IS NOT POSSIBLE. They are not the same species. As I said earlier, at this point in time, it isn't shown to be possible that a human and chimpanzee can make a hybrid. (You know, like a horse and donkey can make a mule? Both are equine.) We have one less chromosome pair than chimps, and this means it isn't likely that there could be a hybrid. If there were a hybrid, it would be unable to breed. If they can't even make a chimpanzee-human cross, they sure as H*LL can't make a bovine-Homo Sapiens Sapiens (human) cross. USE YOUR MIND BEFORE IT ROTS BEYOND REPAIR! Go read, learn. Go! *shoo*
So much for natural selection. This research is disgusting. The weak aren't meant to carry on in nature and promoting research that allows this is just disgusting on so many levels.
fucking fantastic, now (eventually) the world is gonna be overrun by mutant cow-people.
Re: Tiandu – I understand that the statement - "I abhor" etc does not state or imply hate - hate is the strongest of emotions but there is a lot of that here although it is probably misguided due to ignorance,
The links to sites/charities are nice - but lets face it - he is an attention whore - and he gets hits on the site ergo revenue - - it's money, not goodwill. Wake up to the Perez world (although somehow I know you know (*smiles*)
At the end of the day this site is run by a man (no comment required) who makes his living by trashing or exposing the worst aspects of the people the mass media is told (programmed) to love. Quite the dichotomy (Is that a valid statement *L*)
In other words - luv Ho'wood - just let me insult their very existence - and profit
VOTE OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"fucking fantastic, now (eventually) the world is gonna be overrun by mutant cow-people. "
Like Mariah Carey.
Re: jessemm – Well, are you a member of that movement (their name escapes me) that feels humanity is a Blight, and who sign contracts to not have children, in order to do their part to ensure that humanity dies out? Or, can you not see that there will be Cancers, and other sicknesses, always? Mother Nature is subtle, and since we have tried to pull ourselves away from her embrace, she's working in other ways to keep our population under control. I also hear the Earth groaning under the weight of Human population. But, individual people are likeable. (Yeah, I like anthropology too, what of it? *wink*)
Re: Dave – I find your comment distasteful and ignorant. As a cow-person it's becoming obvious that the US is not ready for genetic diversity. Oh, and Mariah Carey is NOT a cow person. I DO like her udders though
They say it's all about Stem cell research but eventually a mad scientist will have us living among Cowpeople . OMMMMMMMMMG!