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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dude go fuck you selves and let those damn animals be. GOD! WTF is wrong with you ppl r u just out of ur mind. FUCK!
this i so effin NASTY..
poor little animal…
cool
whoa
Your idea sucks!!!!! How could you do this to poor animal. Your idea is stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What the hell you’re doing to an animal you’re so in sensitive(fuck)
ya e kasekeya nu jugulay e shipseki, i curse u. why don’t you try it to your asshole
that is cool…yet very weird. anyways i thinx it very good for us to be animals like sheep and lol funny. lol.
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ummm……
wats up with scientists and creating chimeras? i mean yur basically ruining the formal form of the animals they’re combining…
ugghhhh!
No. I know that it may seem exciting having an extra billion kidneys waiting for you incase you should loose one but i do not see the fun in creating horribly deformed animals just for fun or so that we can wait until we decide to end their (mostly likely excruciatingly painful) lives.
It is sick and it seems that it may lead to much worse problems as well. Such as when does an animal become too human? I know it sounds cheesey but it really does sound like we are going to get a repeat of the movie ‘the island’.
that iz so disgusting nd weired but b iz not retarted it’s probably fake
*Bianca*
this is disgusting. I believe that god had a certain way for animals to look and your just fucking with it! go suck ur wet little pussies!!
any one witha right mind wouldnt do that!!!!
amatures.
your research is pathetic come back when you have some real results and then we’ll talk about chimeras i mean a rat with an ear on its back is cute but try something a little bit more advanced next time.
if you want a human test subject then contact me!!!!
cotastros@hotmail.co.uk
this is soooooooo mean!! this animal will never be able to live a normal life span!!! do you people even know what you are doing!?! How would you feel if some one did this to you or your children!? You wouldnt like it to much no would you animals are just like people too you know!!!! I know your like its just one mouse! But its not just one mouse it turns out that one mouse can lead to a million mice!!! so THINK next time!!!!!!!!!
this is soooo wrong!!!UGH!!!! why do you even want to do this!? there is no point!!! That poor mouse must be going through tramatizing PAIN!!!!!!!!!! do you know what pain feels like? evadently not you people cant feel anything cause you all dont have hearts!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is soooo(etc) wrong, and I am very upset with whoever started this whole thing! I mean you guys are talking about all these children in Africa with missing arms or extra body parts in places they shouldn’t be, like a finger on their head, when you are purposly doing exactly that, but to animals! So those of you who are doing this to animals can not complain about deformed children, because you are making animals look deformed!!!!!!!!!!STOP IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
u all crul u scuk
I know tghis is so retarted and cruel but they did it for a good cause…
They did it so humans missing body parts on the out side ears, toes, arms etc could grow them back.
It sounds disgusting and i wouldnt want it to be done to me…
I still think it is so retarted and cruel though and they didnt have to do it to a mouse… if they got the right chemicals and bacteria the could do it on a… nothing really…they could do iot on a bit of plastic…
imagin if there was some kind of creature that ruled over use, picked us up, gave us some injections and we started to grow extra/weird body parts…
i dont think we would like that…
PS…
I am 11
*face+palm* What is this world coming to?
this is interseting BUT this is still cruel to animals ………..which do you think is more important scientific discovery or……….protecting helpless animals?
this is so stuiped
how can some one be doing this
this is cruel, but think about what could come of it tin the future. what would happen if we saved all the rats in the world, we would be overpopulated with rats. they would be everywhere! they did this to the rat for a reason, and when they finally do test on a human it will be a person who has accepted all the possibilities and risks.
this is fucking stupid!!!! why do you people do this to pore animals… this isnt right i mean you need to think about if this were you and people were doing this to you… yall need to get a life and stop doing this to animals!!!!
leandra mims
y would you do somthing like dis that is mean wat if someone did this to you would you like it?
I hope you burn and rot in HELL
get a life BITCH!
that rat ugly ass hell
wow…. i dont think that rat wanted an ear on its back so y dont u try it on urself beofre u do somthin stupid like that and i cant even imagine how many animals died during this test… and what did u get out of this? putting an ear on a rats back is really gonna help the world isnt it … retards
OMFGROFLCOPTER
This is wicked they should do more stuff like this to animals its so awsome i want one now!
I don’t think any of you saying “OMG that is soooooo mean!!” actually know what this means, there is so many people who are born without some skin tissue eg an outer ear, being injected with these stem cells may be their only cahance of being normal! so why don’t weeners get a life and study somthing!!!
personally i would want sheep cells in my baby.
That’s fucked up shit
OMFG how can u do dat to a poor innocent RAT?? yea that’s rite RAT not a SHEEp dumbass
this is so wrong on so many diffrent levels
anyone who thinks this is cool or amazing should be ashamed and discusted of themselves. this is going on around the world, there is alot more animal crulty than just this rat. mayby you should try it on yourself you DUMBFUCK!
This is the lived {spelled back wards}.Nice job guys keep on killing cute lil rats and sheep…. JOsh… yes I am talking to you………..I know you josh….guys keep on drinking and stealing and killing innocent animals.You are doing a very good job….SEE YOU IN HELL!!!!! LOVE,SATAN DEVIL
this is very weird to me but i think that it would be very cool at the same time . i like it . lol
You sick twisted people!
How could you do this to a poor defensless mouse!?
This is outragos!!!!!
I want to cry!
You are so hartless!
GET A LIFE!!!
This is the future. All you naysayers that are downplaying the importance of this research are the ones that need to be weeded out of the gene pool and thankfully your feeble minds will never be involved in this type of research. Bleeding heart rat lovers, what a joke you are…
i wonder if the mouse with the ear on its back can hear better or worse…
well Progressprevails, I am only 11(im not kidding,i am!) and I took wat u said to ofence.
us rat lovers are not a joke! we just feel difrent to wat u feel.u are pathetic with all youre “wading out the gene pool…”bussniss.
im sorry if i ofend u but im just quite angry at u thats all…
This is horrifying.
Not because I love rats, I don’t care about animal testing.
But where does it end? A rat with a human brain? Sheep with human faces? A kid with mice for parents?
You’re wading in dangerous waters. This is playing god.
They do it to animals so that humans can get organs when they need them so they don’t die. It’s just one mouse for millions of lives.
I think that this is great progress for us, we at least need to try to find out if it could work, and it isn’t crude and “gay”, honestly.
Nothing you say can stop it and if it ever stops, millions of people will die. Not that i care if chinese die since they’re the reason for over-populating earth and global warming ;]
anyways, Great progress, and it’s kinda interesting!
Seriously… things are meant to be a certain way and when people try to change that then things can go crudly wrong! Um.. read the Maximum Ride series and then you’ll understand why this is my opinion.
Is this really the best you can come up with.I mean come you can better than this thats old news.You can do better than this.
how could u do this you r so mean poor littloe animal
is cool
think about how many human lives this could save ?!!!!!???
h=who gives a fuck about a rat living in pain , think about all of the humans living in pain that this research could help ??
honestly most of u arejust winny faggotts ,
its a fucking mouse !!!!
I mean, we could do research to save human lives , but if it means hurting a cute mouse, (whose lifespan was 2 years anyways)
lets not do it ,
we could end human suffering from tens of diseases,
and save millions of lives ,
but i donnt think we should…look how cute the mouse is !! think about it’s parents !!
So… if they can put ears in mice, than theoretically, they could put wings in horses and humans so that they look like angels and pegasus, respectively (even though neither animal could use them for flight) and put horns on the heads of horses…like a unicorn. Right?
why would you do this to an animal. it is gross and disturbing. how about we stick a tail on you. i bet you would not like that. so stop playing with animals cause i no you would hate to be that mouse. poor thing. i hope you regret your move. and i hope to never meet you. is this a science project or what? if i knew you i wuld not want to hang around you. how would yo feel if you were a mouse and you had a child and it looked like that. i would hate it. so go give birth to a baby and put a few extra ears and a tail and tell me you love it. YA RIGHT.
playing with genes is like playing with fire.. Just can’t imagine what will happen if one day their experiments backfire.. wat if the products (protein) of the human gene reacts with the product of the mouse’s gene to produce something unnoticeable but deadly??? Wat if humans turns into dangerous animals?? im so sad and disgusted to see that intelligent people like you don’t have any feelings or pity to transform this poor mouse into something so horrible and disgusting.. animals have equal rights to live.. stop playing god koz life is sacred!!!
U LOT R SICK FUCIN LOWLIFES AND SO IS ANY ONE WHO SUPPORTS THIS I HAV 3 PET MICE AND WHAT UR DOING DISGUSTS ME WHY DONT U MAKE SUM FRICKIN GROSS FAKE HUMAN CELLS AND TEST ON THAT INSTEAD OF HURTING POOR INISENT CREATES THAT COULD HAVE HAD A GREAT LIFE AND WHY THE HELL DO U DO IT TO OTHER ANIMALS ASWELL CAUSE PUTTING LOADS OF CRAP ON THEM ISNT GOING TO HELP OTHERS WITH THIER PROBLEMS ANIMALS HAVE A RIGHT TO A GOOD LIFE AND ONE DAY UR ALL GOING TO GET PROSUCUTED FOR ANIMAL CRUELTY FUCK U SCIENCE LOWLIFES FROM MOUSEY
Great spelling and grammar everyone. Very well thought out. I doubt that the ear, from what I’ve read, actually causes the mouse any pain.
I am more concerned about this sheep thing. Wherever it says “a person” (or “patient”) insert “rich person”. The wealthy do not deserve to breed their own reserves of organs while farmers in India are committing suicide over lack of water.
Also, if you disagree with this practice, you ought to stop eating meat.
who the hell do you do that
What concerns me most about these experiments and the possible outcomes is that their first listed worry is that a mouse could give birth to a human instead of the face that new viruses and new genetic mutations will form from xenographing. As amazing as this is, we dont need more viruses and tampered genes to worry about seeing as how there are already several that claim and afflict millions that dont have any cures or hope for recovery or a normal life.
This is so cruel how could you do this to a innocent animal
You know many animals die because of scientists ” experimenting” on them! Whoever did this should go to jail immediately this is animal abuse aw I feel so bad for the little animal
que bueno esto me esta ayuda a estudiar pero no me gusta lo que le isieron a a la rata
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