Pig embryos with human cells grow and survive to 28 days

[Big Nasty Edison]

Researchers were able to inject human stem cells into pig embryos and implant the embryo into a sow where they were able to grow for 28 days.

Embryos that are less than 0.001% human - and the rest pig - have been made and analysed by scientists.

It is the first proof chimeras - named after the mythical lion-goat-serpent monster - can be made by combining material from humans and animals.

However, the scientific report in the journal Cell shows the process is challenging and the aim of growing human organs in animals is distant.

It was described as an "exciting publication" by other researchers.

To create a chimera, human stem cells - the type that can develop into any tissue - are injected into a pig embryo.

The embryo - now a mix of human and pig - is then implanted into a sow for up to one month.

The process appears very inefficient - of the 2,075 embryos implanted only 186 continued to develop up to the 28-day stage.

But crucially there were signs that human cells were functioning - albeit as a tiny fraction of the total tissue - as part of a human-pig chimera.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-38717930

Political angles:
Is this "playing god"
What amount of human cells constitutes human life and should they be allowed to grow?

 

[faustian]

Isn't that kinda the whole point of stem cells

 

[dfoster]

what an abomination

 

[seiger]

does this mean we can now clone michael moore?

 

[Buck Swope]

Inb4 the religious jealots

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

 

[Anung Un Rama]

The Nazis did similar experiments. Not kidding

 

[ncordless]

As someone who lost a relative in part because there was not a suitable organ donor available in time, I hope that this research leads to the development of harvestable organs.

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

Would eating bacon from one of these be cannibalism?

 

[ultramanhyata]

Just need to add the bear cells and...

 

[uncommon]

Hebrews 10:26-29


For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES. Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

 

[Buck Swope]

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

Inb4 the religious jealots

Took 11 posts.

 

[ShinkanPo]

They creating Pig people?

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

They creating Pig people?

Trump needs voters in 2020 to counter act all those illegals.

 

[Buck Swope]

The Nazis did similar experiments. Not kidding

They were on the cutting edge of many techs. Your point? Honest Q.

 

[sangreporsangre]

 

[ShinkanPo]

Trump needs voters in 2020 to counter act all those illegals.

There are times I believe that I am part pig...


Is it true that experts say human pig is similar to pig or was that hair and the heart?

 

[Islam Imamate]

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should-Ian Malcom

 

[Gref]

Wereboar berserkers incoming.