Scientists create animals that are part-human – Health – Cloning and stem cells | NBC News

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This is the kind of stuff that causes me to want to run for cover. God is pretty clear about not mingling the different “kinds” or “sees”, as in species. It is a corruption of His creation. Along with many other offenses, those who are doing this, are storing up wrath against themselves. I realize there have been different “hybridizations” going on for a very long time. But it is still not ok, because God doesn’t change His laws. Man thinks he is so wise and doesn’t know what it is he really is tampering with! ~STLloyd

On a farm about six miles outside this gambling town, Jason Chamberlain looks over a flock of about 50 smelly sheep, many of them possessing partially human livers, hearts, brains and other organs.

The University of Nevada-Reno researcher talks matter-of-factly about his plans to euthanize one of the pregnant sheep in a nearby lab. He can’t wait to examine the effects of the human cells he had injected into the fetus’ brain about two months ago.

“It’s mice on a large scale,” Chamberlain says with a shrug. As strange as his work may sound, it falls firmly within the new ethics guidelines the influential National Academies issued this past week for stem cell research.

In fact, the Academies’ report endorses research that co-mingles human and animal tissue as vital to ensuring that experimental drugs and new tissue replacement therapies are safe for people.

Doctors have transplanted pig valves into human hearts for years, and scientists have injected human cells into lab animals for even longer.

via NBCnews.com