Many reports on-line are coming out about chimeric man-sheep creatures developed.
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 fetus.
What is the promise:
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.
What many don’t realize is that chimeric, transgenic, and xenograpted human-animal research has been going on for some time. THe genetic research focuses on placing the genes of one species inthe cells of another. Xenograft research has not gotten much press. This is what I was extensively involved in. Here we actually graft human tissue into animals (usually mice) that lack an immune system
My research involved grafting human ovarian tissue into immunodeficient mice and then allowing it to grow, develop, and function. This ia called a xenograft and the technique has now been developed by several groups. The hope was to develop techniques to preserve fertility in cancer patients. There has now been a case reported where human ovarian tissue was frozen, reimplanted (into the woman not a mouse) and resulted in a pregnancy.
The biggest controversies
- this could potentially lead to a mouse ovulating a human egg that gets fertilized and become a person
- there is unknown potential for interactive effects between the species
- there is possibility for new animal viral contamination of the human cells that can be transmitted
When I did this research the animals were locked down as if they has Ebola. Made Alcatraz look like a Holiday Inn.
The top photo is a human ear growing on the back of an immunodeficient mouse. This is part of the emerging field of tissue engineering where human tissue and even organs are gorwn in lab dishes. Read more on that subject ere: Creating tissues that can augment or replace injured, defective, or diseased body parts.
Yes, it is real…
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WTF???
this is so crude and gay. how could you do this to a poor animal. AH. you suck
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this is so crude and gay. how could you do this to a poor animal. AH. you suck
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this is so crude and gay. how could you do this to a poor animal. AH. you suck
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dude this is so awsome!! i totally want a mutant animal wow this is so great
HAHA, funny…..poo, gimme a rat with an ear
that thing looks ssssoooo nasty
ugh what is that
so cool!!!!!!!!!!!
Very interesting! Must be possible with stem cell research. Science is proof that miracles can happen!
Why would you want to do this to an animal?
This is sick and disgusting. The poor animal doesn’t want any nasty human cells on its baby! Why would you touch it? Why would you change the natural animal cycle? Ugh.
i’m amazed, but also disturbed that someone could do that to a defenceless animal. would you like someone to put whiskers or a tail on you.
the poor thing.
that poor rat must feel so much fucking pain u guys are so fucking pathetic
fuck u
get a life
im not a pure animal lover but use are sick in the head testing on animals especially leaving them in that shape…you need locked up sicko’s even if we have to live without make-up or hair products!
that is so gay!WTF!HOW COULD THEY DO THAT!I HATE THOSE PEOPLE!FUCKING RUDE ASS (*%^^&$)
why r u doing this to animials that nersty and sick.
Genetic engineering is disgusting and dangerous. They could wind up killing us all in the vain attempts to help a few.
That is sick how could yu do tha to a poor animal they should be ashshameddddd thats right ashhameddddd sick twisted disterbed minds could only have created this
This is the single most…….AWESOME THING EVER! I know it’s cruel but think about it, it’s a rat with a friken ear on its back! There isn’t a single part of that sentence I didn’t like. I want one but before you try to give it to me PUT A BRAIN IN IT! (please i want one), THis is Fucking awesome, GIVE ME ONE NOW. Bye
This is the single most…….AWESOME THING EVER! I know it’s cruel but think about it, it’s a rat with a friken ear on its back! There isn’t a single part of that sentence I didn’t like. I want one but before you try to give it to me PUT A BRAIN IN IT! (please i want one), THis is Fucking awesome, GIVE ME ONE NOW. Bye
This is the single most…….AWESOME THING EVER! I know it’s cruel but think about it, it’s a rat with a friken ear on its back! There isn’t a single part of that sentence I didn’t like. I want one but before you try to give it to me PUT A BRAIN IN IT! (please i want one), THis is Fucking awesome, GIVE ME ONE NOW. Bye
This is wrong, but yet it is soooooo right. Imagine if they learned to put a hawk’s eye in a human! HOW AWESOME WOULD THAT BE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? If you do let me be the one to test it. This is cool and anyone who thinks otherwise is stuck in the past….and gay.
you guys are so stupid how do yuo think this animal feels!! put your self in this rats position. you guys are being cruel!!
every comment that is on this page is against you!!!
it’s better to do this on a mouse that would die anyway then to test this stuff on humans
I believe this is revolutionary and remarkable sign of human enginering and it should be further researched but I think what happens in the lab should tay in the lab you need more statistics befor you actually put one of those organs in a human but all in all it is a remarkable feat and a possible new breakthrough in the field of organ transplanting but you guys still managed to alter the animals DNA which I congradulate you on keep up the good work fellow earthlings!
well ok then that is !@#$ up bad this one of the oddist thing i have seen and im not a anmail lover but a rat ear is well odd
this is noo awsome man. i no its a bit cruel to the animal, but ppl c’mon its a freakinn rat. and think of how many animals get killed a day, just by the scientist playing with 1… i dont think its harmfull at all.
this is soo awsome man. i no its a bit cruel to the animal, but ppl c’mon its a freakinn rat. and think of how many animals get killed a day, just by the scientist playing with 1… i dont think its harmfull at all**
This is so danm sick you bastards will all pay when you go to hell
its cool and all but the poor mouse. havent mice suffered enough? they are what everything is tested on. but why? what if you (scientists that created this) were that mouse for a day? do you know if it hurts the mouse? it meaning the ear. and i would lovingly love to run as fast a cheetah… not trying to put out suggestions or anything. but this is cruel. and cool!
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That is so sick! Why would u want to do that to the poor little mouse?!?! All of u who said that that was cool should be made into mutants with a tail sticking out of ur ass and ears poking through ur hair and see how it feels!!!!!!!!!!!
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Whhat the !!!! Is is even right?
wow…this is stupid…can’t ppl just not do this incase there is a mess up and we get turned into mutants or something…like in that movie with will smith…and why does everyhting have to be tested on a rat, can’t ppl also just test stuff on grass and do some scientific stuff to make it able to use as a testing thing that will come out with the same answer as is you had used a rat
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