Scientists create part sheep part human.

[yomotalking]

Exactly, Gerioke.....something wothwhile to do with their time!

Yomo

[kevkeegsdad]

In all fairness...I was almost with them at least as far as the human organ issue went...although it did seem rather like a body farm...it was when they made the comment about the human brain cells in these new creatures that I went ...

that and the comment that this MIGHT raise some ethical concerns.

Sometimes people don't seem to realize just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should, or that you have the "right" to do something...

Kevin

[nebula]

I agree with you, Kevin.

[Trinity]

I can't get the Video to work is this a joke or is it for real?

[spiritman]

All I've got to say is

Anytime you mess with something that God has created LOOK OUT !!!!

[Imamom]

[Trinity]

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Agreed

[Guest Island]

Like most sins of today there is nothing new in these. Slaves in the US and othe parts of the world were bread for there muscles even passed civil war days. The Nazie party did experiments on the jews in many many horrific forms. genetic science was even found in the biblical days Jacob tried to breed his sheep to try to get better ones. and while I can't find anything against the latter, I have found "You shall not let your livestock breed with another kind" (Lev. 19:19, NKJV). The NIV renders this verse: "Do not mate different kinds of animals." "It is the prohibition of mating animals under a different yoke, i.e., of a different species, like the ass and the ox"

[Guest Island]

As far as cheeper energy we already have it, in many forms its just not implemented in some and not efficent for our economy in others. buring corn to heat your house costs almost nothing if you put the right system in and creates less pollution then the engery it takes to heat your house by burning coal

[Gerioke]

Prophecy News Watch Update - April 27

Kade Hawkins

Apr 27, 2005

GM industry puts human gene into rice

Scientists have begun putting genes from human beings into food crops in a dramatic extension of genetic modification. The move, which is causing disgust and revulsion among critics, is bound to strengthen accusations that GM technology is creating "Frankenstein foods" and drive the controversy surrounding it to new heights.

Even before this development, many people, including Prince Charles, have opposed the technology on the grounds that it is playing God by creating unnatural combinations of living things.

Environmentalists say that no one will want to eat the partially human-derived food because it will smack of cannibalism.

But supporters say that the controversial new departure presents no ethical problems and could bring environmental benefits.

In the first modification of its kind, Japanese researchers have inserted a gene from the human liver into rice to enable it to digest pesticides and industrial chemicals. The gene makes an enzyme, code-named CPY2B6, which is particularly good at breaking down harmful chemicals in the body.

Present GM crops are modified with genes from bacteria to make them tolerate herbicides, so that they are not harmed when fields are sprayed to kill weeds. But most of them are only able to deal with a single herbicide, which means that it has to be used over and over again, allowing weeds to build up resistance to it.

But the researchers at the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences in Tsukuba, north of Tokyo, have found that adding the human touch gave the rice immunity to 13 different herbicides. This would mean that weeds could be kept down by constantly changing the chemicals used.

Supporting scientists say that the gene could also help to beat pollution.

Professor Richard Meilan of Purdue University in Indiana, who has worked with a similar gene from rabbits, says that plants modified with it could "clean up toxins" from contaminated land. They might even destroy them so effectively that crops grown on the polluted soil could be fit to eat.

But he and other scientists caution that if the gene were to escape to wild relatives of the rice it could create particularly vicious superweeds that were resistant to a wide range of herbicides.

Sue Mayer, director of GeneWatch UK, said yesterday: "I don't think that anyone will want to buy this rice. People have already expressed disgust about using human genes, and already feel that their concerns are being ignored by the biotech industry. This will just undermine their confidence even more."