Controversy - National Geographic Reports on Human - Animal Hybrids

A Mouse with a Human Ear


See the report in full at National Geographic.


Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University in 2003 successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs. The embryos were reportedly the first human-animal chimeras successfully created. They were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory dish before the scientists destroyed the embryos to harvest their stem cells.


In Minnesota last year researchers at the Mayo Clinic created pigs with human blood flowing through their bodies.

And at Stanford University in California an experiment might be done later this year to create mice with human brains.

Scientists feel that, the more humanlike the animal, the better research model it makes for testing drugs or possibly growing "spare parts," such as livers, to transplant into humans.

What new subhuman combination should be produced and for what purpose? At what point would it be considered human? And what rights, if any, should it have?

There are currently no U.S. federal laws that address these issues.

Wow! The world sure is getting strange. If scientists can do these things, what can the millitary do? I can see them creating the locusts with teeth of lions from Revelation just to see if they could. Make sure you check out this article. The hypothetical mice creating human children was a strange speculation.