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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is planning to lift its moratorium on chimeric embryo research:
The National Institutes of Health is proposing a new policy to permit scientists to get federal money to make embryos, known as chimeras, under certain carefully monitored conditions. The NIH imposed a moratorium on funding these experiments in September because they could raise ethical concerns.
[...] [Scientists] hope to use the embryos to create animal models of human diseases, which could lead to new ways to prevent and treat illnesses. Researchers also hope to produce sheep, pigs and cows with human hearts, kidneys, livers, pancreases and possibly other organs that could be used for transplants.
To address the ethical concerns, the NIH's new policy imposes several restrictions. The policy prohibits the introduction of any human cells into embryos of nonhuman primates, such as monkeys and chimps, at their early stages of development. Previously, the NIH wouldn't allow such experiments that involved human stem cells but it didn't address the use of other types of human cells that scientists have created. In addition, the old rules didn't bar adding the cells very early in embryonic development. The extra protections are being added because these animals are so closely related to humans. But the policy would lift the moratorium on funding experiments involving other species. Because of the ethical concerns, though, at least some of the experiments would go through an extra layer of review by a new, special committee of government officials.
You can submit a response to the proposal here up until the end of the day on September 4.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday August 05 2016, @12:24AM
I believe testing on non-human animals should be outlawed and testing on human scum like Arabs and other criminally-predisposed humans should be encouraged.
Why raise a human heart inside a pig when you could grow it on the hairy ass of an Arab? And there will no doubt be a huge uptick of Black penis transplants to lily-livered, pasty-faced White boys. O' imagine the possibilities! Prehensile spotted cocks with talking meatuses! Vaginas with the kung-fu grip! Women lactating 24/7 throughout their lifetimes, opening up the possibilities for new and delicious cheeses that are both tasty and good for you!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @01:49AM
Why raise a human heart inside a pig when you could grow it on the hairy ass of an Arab?
Pigs are more sanitary?
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday August 05 2016, @01:59AM
Not only that, but pigs even of different species are more socially cooperative and pragmatic than even Arabs of similar tribes.
At least with respect to their women. Arab beasts, by contrast, fly to Qatar to have sex with other men and praise Allah (PBUH) and snort the highest quality cocaine while doing so. Now, there's nothing wrong with that except that said Arab beasts have others executed for doing the same.
Wait, why are Americans and Europeans backing those filth up again?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2016, @02:09AM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 05 2016, @03:35AM
Eth, are you okay? I'm asking this in all seriousness; your earlier material was artful and hilarious, but lately you've just been cringe-y. Is something wrong?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday August 05 2016, @11:29AM
Perhaps a bit too close to home. There has always been something about Eth that is just not quite human. Chimera-ism would explain a lot.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday August 05 2016, @05:00PM
Don't give him an excuse by saying "oh the poor thing, he's probably not entirely human." Humans are capable of the basest evil, as we have seen. No, Eth is pure human, with all that this implies.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...