Chimeras?

Of mice, men and in-between

Scientists debate blending of human, animal forms
By Rick Weiss
Updated: 1:14 a.m. ET Nov. 20, 2004

In Minnesota, pigs are being born with human blood in their veins.

In Nevada, there are sheep whose livers and hearts are largely human.

In California, mice peer from their cages with human brain cells firing inside their skulls.

These are not outcasts from “The Island of Dr. Moreau,” the 1896 novel by H.G. Wells in which a rogue doctor develops creatures that are part animal and part human. They are real creations of real scientists, stretching the boundaries of stem cell research.

I have to say that if this is the kind of “life-saving” research being done with regards to stem cells, I want no part of it. There are certain things that are not to be fucked with, and life is one of them. To me it sounds like a bunch of scientists with God complexes trying desperately to prove that they can become gods of their own, and I don’t like it one single solitary bit.