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World's first human-sheep hybrids pave way for diabetes cure and mass organ transplants

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Post by Guest Sun Feb 18, 2018 6:44 am

Human-sheep hybrids have been created by scientists for the first time, opening the door to organs being grown inside the farmyard animals for use in transplants or to cure diabetes.

A team at Stanford University successfully grew embryos inside a surrogate for three weeks which had both sheep and human cells.

It is the first stage towards growing an unlimited supply of human organs for transplants and even providing a cure for Type 1 diabetes.

The next step is to implant human stem cells into sheep embryos which have been genetically modified so they cannot grow a pancreas, in the hope that human DNA will fill in the missing code.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/17/worlds-first-human-sheep-hybrids-pave-way-diabetes-cure-mass/

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Post by 'Wolfie Sun Feb 18, 2018 8:18 am

geek

Never mind that to get around the "Ethics" committees at work in many, if not most, major developed countries, any hospitals or companies wanting to exploit any resultant technologies down the track (and still a long way off in reality..) will need to set up their production in some third-world African or S.E. Asian tinpot country where money rules...

And, as for the sheep, they themselves are 'genetically engineered' freakazoid creations, as far as you can get from your normal everyday "farmyard animals"..
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Post by Victorismyhero Sun Feb 18, 2018 11:05 am

You can see human sheep every polling day
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Post by Guest Sun Feb 18, 2018 1:19 pm

Lord Foul wrote:You can see human sheep every polling day


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lol!

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