Who gave the OK for this?

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Charismatic Enigma
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Who gave the OK for this?

I found this on Yahoo.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070905/sc_ ... _embryo_dc

This sounds like out of science fiction. :?
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So we're one step closer to having real-life catgirls? :shock:
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That is awesome...
Of course, 99.9/0.1-ratio's not gonna get you any real "catgirls" in that sense of the term, but farther down the line, perhaps...

What I worry about is this: How would the nonhuman genetic material affect the way in or extent to which the test-subject reacts to treatment. 0.1% doesn't seem like enough to make a real difference, but I dunno.
But hey, if this can help the radical anti-human-testing hardline types back off and let medecine do its work(Not that I really think it will), and if indeed the genetic difference isn't sufficient to affect the results, then I'm all for it.
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Crossing human and animal DNA sounds risky to me. I have the same concerns as Dark Duel.
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Ahhhh yes, so merrily do you all wander into the veritable minefield that is human genetic manipulation and medical ethics.

I don't know if you guys watch the news or get out or anything, but this sort of thing is controversial. And I don't know where all or any of you come down on those kinds of issues (and I don't really want to know). And since this article is so new, it probably hasn't generated much controversy yet--but I bet it will. And that means someone's going to start a fight. And that means we have to clean it up.

So in light of that, this thread gets locked.
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