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Hyperpigs any day now
ignhelper can you stop posting every last sensationalist science article you find before you even bother reading past the first line
I already finished my genetics coursework a few years ago and even then, human-pig hybrid cells weren't anything new, neither were human-mouse hybrids.
This is nothing special or new, there are a shitload of transgenic organisms and cell cultures already
can we make shitty pop sci articles bannable already
Oh my God George Bush was right
Kramer was right!
i've seen plenty of these wammos about already, i don't understand?
how would you write an article about this topic so that it wasn't shitty pop sci
Now we just need to combine dogs and people. /s
you wouldn't, because the entire point was to clickbait off a misleading headline
this happened a year ago, yeah, but i wouldn't say the headline is any more misleading than the actual scientific terms used to describe what happened are.
Anyone else feel that the idea of growing human biocompatible organs in an animal is kinda inhumane? Like stem cell research has come such a long way now that we've been able to grow some organs on their own with just a few stem cells.
seriously? this is not what people think of when they think "chimera hybrid"
they're growing organs inside of a host, not birthing some new DNA
it isn't what people think, but it is accurate terminology.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)
i can't really blame the writers of the several articles about this topic using words like "hybrid" and "chimera" in the headline when they're both accurate ways of describing it and sound cool.
just one step short of a man bear pig. thank goodness they haven't cross3d that line yet.
The article itself isn't sensationalist - just the title. The article goes to lengths to explain that they're just pig embryos with a tiny quantity of human cells. And the genetic change is still enough that the most of the embryos don't survive. We aren't anywhere close to having humanoid pigs walking around, thank goodness.
Still a problem when a lot of people just read titles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftb09o6O7sw
Yes praises Animal gods prayers!!!
Next step becoming real Furries!!!
one inhumane thing doesn't make the other any less so
is breeding a pig for organ harvest any worse than breeding it for slaughter though?
No, we're still short organs and any possible solution to the problem is a welcome one. It's no more inhumane than eating them.
are we playing whataboutism with ethics, now?
It could be both for now.
well its acceptable to breed millions of pigs and slaughter them for their bodies but its somehow ethically wrong to breed one single pig and slaughter it for its one or two organs just because it was made with gene splicing.
its not whataboutism, we already do this, we have for thousands of years used these creatures for the sole benefit of mankind, why is it suddenly morally wrong to do that once again because we threw a little more science in the mix.
i'm not making a judgement here on whether or not the life-saving benefits of this research outweigh the cost to the animals involved; it very well may be an acceptable sacrifice
however, making that argument based purely upon the status-quo of animal treatment is dogshit; the customs humans have had for "thousands of years" do not themselves form a moral argument
He's already been converted.
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