Green light for hybrid research
17-01-2008, 18:07
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Green light for hybrid research
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7193820.stm
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Regulators have given scientists the green light to create human-animal embryos for research. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority granted permission after a consultation showed the public were "at ease" with the idea.
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This member of the public isn't that at ease about it..once you open this box it's going to be hard to keep the lid in place.I see a lot of trouble about this from the pro lifers.
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17-01-2008, 18:14
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Re: Green light for hybrid research
Mmmm, wonder what they will make first, and wonder who / what they will have to kill first because it didn't work out quiet the way the thought.
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17-01-2008, 18:14
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Re: Green light for hybrid research
Yes! Nekojin here we come! 
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17-01-2008, 18:16
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Re: Green light for hybrid research
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I had to Google that  the options that this hybrid thing throws up, humans with wings, gills xmen here we come.
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17-01-2008, 18:20
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Re: Green light for hybrid research
We've already got politicians with **** holes where their mouths should be. Nothing new here.
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17-01-2008, 18:25
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We've already got politicians with **** holes where their mouths should be. Nothing new here.
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Thanks BBKing! I've now got everyone at work giving me strange looks for my outburst of laughter
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17-01-2008, 18:37
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Re: Green light for hybrid research
Would have been funnier if I'd said 'bull's **** holes'.
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17-01-2008, 19:02
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Re: Green light for hybrid research
Anyone remember Chimera? That's the way this will go if they're not careful.
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17-01-2008, 19:10
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Re: Green light for hybrid research
Maybe in the distant future they'll be able to combine the DNA of some form of creature to that of John Prescott to creat something worthwhile
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17-01-2008, 19:24
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Re: Green light for hybrid research
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Maybe in the distant future they'll be able to combine the DNA of some form of creature to that of John Prescott to creat something worthwhile |
the best part of john prescott gets flushed away twice a day 
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18-01-2008, 01:28
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Re: Green light for hybrid research
Well I guess most of you don't think it will have any impact. 
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18-01-2008, 10:26
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Re: Green light for hybrid research
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Well I guess most of you don't think it will have any impact. |
In secret laboratories all round the world, I bet there's been all kinds of nasty things going on.
Unless they make a 300ft tall iguana with a penchant for chewitts, I wouldn't worry to much about it.
There's already enough in the world to worry about, who knows they might just discover a cure for cancer, or divise a way to help transplant patients.
I doubt they are trying to make to new super species of cockroach that will bite off your head and suck out your insides like a milkshake.
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18-01-2008, 10:36
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Re: Green light for hybrid research
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Well I guess most of you don't think it will have any impact.
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500 years ago:
"I tell you, squire, selectively breeding livestock to make them bigger and fatter will only lead to trouble. Tis against nature, so it is"
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I doubt they are trying to make to new super species of cockroach that will bite off your head and suck out your insides like a milkshake.
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You sound disappointed.
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18-01-2008, 10:53
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Re: Green light for hybrid research
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Well I guess most of you don't think it will have any impact. |
You're going to be even unhappier at this: US team creates 2 cloned embryos
I think your reaction is a bit unfair though. Its very early days and its hard to grasp where the future and science will take us (like BBKing said). And as Pierre said, wether we allow it or not, it will happen elsewhere in the world. At least this way we stand a chance at having a hand on the rudder.
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19-01-2008, 16:13
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Re: Green light for hybrid research
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I for 1 welcome our human-animal-hybrid overlords. 
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I see a lot of trouble about this from the pro lifers.
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Buy them a straight-jacket each & they can froth at the mouth to their hearts' content.
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or divise a way to help transplant patients.
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Don't need hybrids for that. 
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