Here’s your feel good story of the day…
From an NPR article published this morning:
The federal government announced plans Thursday to lift a moratorium on funding of controversial experiments that use human stem cells to create animal embryos that are partly human.
The National Institutes of Health is proposing a new policy to permit scientists to get federal money to make embryos, known as chimeras, under certain carefully monitored conditions.
The NIH imposed a moratorium on funding these experiments in September because they could raise ethical concerns.
One issue is that scientists might inadvertently create animals that have partly human brains, endowing them with some semblance of human consciousness or human thinking abilities. Another is that they could develop into animals with human sperm and eggs and breed, producing human embryos or fetuses inside animals or hybrid creatures.
But scientists have argued that they could take steps to prevent those outcomes and that the embryos provide invaluable tools for medical research.
For example, scientists hope to use the embryos to create animal models of human diseases, which could lead to new ways to prevent and treat illnesses. Researchers also hope to produce sheep, pigs and cows with human hearts, kidneys, livers, pancreases and possibly other organs that could be used for transplants.
In addition, the NIH would even consider experiments that could create animals with human sperm and human eggs since they may be useful for studying human development and infertility. But in that case steps would have to be taken to prevent the animals from breeding.
Several scientists said they are thrilled by the new policy. “It’s very, very welcome news that NIH will consider funding this type of research,” says Pablo Ross, a developmental biologist at the University of California, Davis, trying to grow human organs in farm animals. “We need funding to be able to answer some very important questions.”
But critics denounced the decision. “Science fiction writers might have imagined worlds like this — like The Island of Dr. Moreau, Brave New World, Frankenstein,” says Stuart Newman, a biologist at New York Medical College. “They’ve been speculations. But now they’re becoming more real. And I think that we just can’t say that since it’s possible then let’s do it.”
The public has 30 days to comment on the proposed new policy. NIH could start funding projects as early as the start of 2017.
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Aren’t some of these creatures already running things in Washinton, DC.?
Makes me think of a K. Eric Drexler quote:
“The global technology race has been accelerating for billions of years. The earthworm’s blindness could not block the development of sharp-eyed birds. The bird’s small brain and clumsy wings could not block the development of human hands, minds, and shotguns. Likewise, local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology. It seems that we must guide the technology race or die, yet the force of technological evolution makes a mockery of anti-technology movements: democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world’s democracies, not the world as a whole.”
Why not private dollars if they really intend to legalize, why always do these bureaucraps first go to taxpayers when this should be a private venture, clearly controversial, even if legal / moral hurdles could be cleared?? Answer – cuz its easier probably, gutless coward bureaucraps in bed with the industry, and crony capitalism run amok, again, grrrrrrrr
Another is that they could develop into animals with human sperm and eggs and breed, producing human embryos or fetuses inside animals or hybrid creatures.
this is called xeno morphing and it the most likely method of science fiction possibilities to make it possible to grow human babies outside of human women. i had written a very short story about men raping a xeno morph pig farmers female pigs in order to get them pregnant with human children without paying the required fee. wicked……its very very possible, at least compared to other ‘baby in a bottle’ technologies.
the real problem is getting a human womb to interact with an embryonic human placenta. the placenta needs a human womb to embed itself succesfully . after that, its possible hormone shots and other treatements may be needed to keep the pig carrying a human fetus to term. we still dont know precisely how labor is induced but pigs yield piglets and go into labor in less than half the human gestation period. on a technical level that probl;em could likely be solved if you had already solved the much bogger problem of using crispr to genetically program a female pig to grow , from its own birth, a human womb capable of providing life (nutrients and everything else) to a developing human embryo/fetus through a placenta without complications.
I guess we’re finally catching up to the Annunaki and the Egyptian High Priests.
I hate to sound like a Bible thumper but this is a sure sign that we are in the “end times.”
Alex Jones has been reporting on this for YEARS.
Thanks for keeping this alive Mike.
Perhaps there is hope to enhance humans through animal intelligence?
but the fda waits on life saving therapies………….
“Duchenne advocates’ wait for an FDA decision nears the six-month mark
Asked about the ongoing delay and the effect it’s having on patients and their families, the FDA’s head of drug approvals, Janet Woodcock, said she’s bound by law not to comment. But patient advocates themselves have told me in recent days that the wait is taking a toll.
Beyond the hundreds of boys with Duchenne who have died, been forced to use wheelchairs or lost their ability to feed themselves in the past few months,
Christine McSherry, head of the Massachusetts-based advocacy group, the Jett Foundation, said that many patients are refusing to enroll in other drug studies until a decision on eteplirsen has been rendered.
“There are lots of kids out there who could start another trial,” said McSherry, a Pembroke resident. But many aren’t, she said, for fear that they’d have drop out if the drug is approved, and then may need to wait additional weeks for any other drug to flush out of their system before being eligible to take eteplirsen.
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/bioflash/2016/08/duchenne-advocates-wait-for-an-fda-decision-nears.html?
It’s already happened! We are about to find out sooner rather than later so be prepared.
This mengele and aurthur arden (aka, hans gruber) garbage is what is STILL happening…SO.. it is being “announced” to the public because the time is “ripe”for it …just look at the freaks running for the freakiest show on earth. OH… and the funding? yeah, you will be paying …big time, as it will ultimately be part of the almighty war chest…NOT to save the babies. And yes, private funding has been going on for a long, long time for this shit!!!…how do you think they got THIS far???
Damn, the last thing we need is more Republicans!
Wrong! They will be typical Libtards like you!
We need to start experimenting to create a new breed of politicians. The ones that currently exist are obviously defective in way too many categories. Let’s start to modify this group of humans first.
We need to start brain implants into the scientists and brain-dead politicians who allowed this. The proposed mythical advantages are outweighed by the obvious corporate advantages. A world workforce to whom human rights cannot exist, armies that can be slaughtered with no compensation, or retribution.
i donno much about this,to see is to believe
Farming human flesh as fast food and then as cheap medicine. Yay!!!