Current Event for Week of 9/18/06
Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy
Diffrent group of scientist all around the world have been succesfully
combining human DNA to animal DNA and creating human-animal chimeras—named
after a monster in Greek mythology that had a lion's head, goat's body, and
serpent's tail. Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University
in 2003 successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs. they allowed the
embryos to grown for several days before they were destroyed to make stem
cells. At Stanford University scientists have been preparing to create mice
with human brains. Scientists argue that doing these procedures may help in
many medical discoveries and how to treat many fatal diseases that plague
many americans. Many people say that this is ethically wrong but others
argue its for the sake of humanity, where do you stand?
Read the Article here.
Diffrent group of scientist all around the world have been succesfully
combining human DNA to animal DNA and creating human-animal chimeras—named
after a monster in Greek mythology that had a lion's head, goat's body, and
serpent's tail. Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University
in 2003 successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs. they allowed the
embryos to grown for several days before they were destroyed to make stem
cells. At Stanford University scientists have been preparing to create mice
with human brains. Scientists argue that doing these procedures may help in
many medical discoveries and how to treat many fatal diseases that plague
many americans. Many people say that this is ethically wrong but others
argue its for the sake of humanity, where do you stand?
Read the Article here.
posted by cldaily at 12:19 PM
1 Comments:
"It would deny that there is something distinctive and valuable about human beings that ought to be honored and protected," i dont agree with her comment. i dont believe humans are so special that they are sepparate from animals bacause no matter how hard we try we will always be animals instictually.
i dont feel that this is entirely right though because we have taken far to many liberties with the natural world. while it is all fun and grand to contemplate thing we know that all experiement dont turn out well (such as the a bomb) while we may have the power to do something that would benifit us. i truely believe that the natural world is capable of taking care of its self. we tend to be like children playing with guns we see the trigger and we know that it makes a boom when we pull it but we never learned about the bullet so the consiquenses surprise us. we ned to stop changing the environment before we destroy it.
there is also the fact that if these animals can think like humans then it is unfair to make them feel like animals and be treated so wrong.
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