Laurence Malcom“Has science gone too far?” It became a thing of the meme quite recently. People post the question sarcastically on photos of homemade Oreo with a cream of 100 cookies, or a fast food sandwich where the buns are replaced with fried chicken. It’s funny, but scientists are now legitimately posing the question after a team of researchers uncovered it Chimera embryos were created in the laboratory.
Illusion is a combination of two types. In this case, scientists are working on new possibilities for Production of laboratory organs for human transplantation Early embryos created half human and half monkey. The idea is that if scientists could grow animal parts in the lab, and those pieces were close enough to humans to be used for transplants, then there might be an unlimited supply of new organs in sight. the problem? They are growing human / monkey hybrids in the laboratory for the purpose of chopping them up and sticking pieces into living humans.
Scientists have experimented with using certain types of human stem cells in animal embryos in the past, including in pigs and mice. They found that the tissues were simply too different to allow strong integration. On the other hand, monkeys are closely related to humans, and when using human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) in cynomolgus monkey embryos in vitro, they found that human cells have integrated at a deeper level.
Interspecific chimeras with human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) represent a necessary alternative for assessing hPSC capacity in vivo and may pose a promising strategy for various regenerative medicine applications, including organ and tissue generation for transplantation.
So, scientists have found a way to get human stem cells to play well with monkey embryos, but that’s not all. They also found that the cells communicate in a way that you weren’t necessarily expecting. The results indicate that there is a lot to learn about the evolutionary pathways of both humans and primates, and it may aid in the development of hybrids in the future, for better or worse.
We have also uncovered signaling events underlying inter-species crosstalk that may aid in shaping the unique developmental pathways of human and monkey cells within chimeric embryos. These results may help to better understand early human evolution and primate evolution, and to develop strategies to improve human delusion in evolutionarily distant species.
Ultimately we will have to choose as a species. Are we okay with creating what are essentially organ farms, where we exploit nature (including other species) in order to transplant organs to transplant into humans? Could it ultimately save human lives? Yes sure. But those lives will be saved after we create a new hybrid species, at least in part, and then kill and harvest its organs. Suspicious.
Mike Weiner has provided a report on technology and video games over the past decade, covering breaking news and trends in virtual reality, wearables, smartphones, and future technology. Most recently, Mike has worked as a technical editor for The Daily Dot, appearing on USA Today, Time.com, and countless other web outlets and publications. His love of reporting is second only to his addiction to games.
