Very interesting…
Seems that scientists, those paragons of ethics we all know and love, have injected human cells into the fetus of a sheep producing a chimera sheep. Very nice. I’m sure there’s some ethical scientific purpose in turning human cells and animal fetuses into living chemistry sets.
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 foetus.
Anyone care to field this one?
I wish I could find the article but I wrote about this a few years ago, and in the article I said that it wouldn’t be long before scientists started trying to mix species and so on and I was told I was nuts.
Yup. It’s all my imagination.
The Mail via Boing Boing