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Re:Human-sheep hybrids pave way for diabetes cure and mass o... by docdeek on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:09AM (#16411689)
I guess it is more a feeling that it'll start with a pancreas and then we'll figure out a way to make other organs, and maybe some human life after that. Perhaps it shouldn't concern me - if I would be fine with a pancreas or a kidney grown in an animal, why not (eventually) a human life in an animal? - but it is still a worry for me right now.
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Re:Human-sheep hybrids pave way for diabetes cure and mass o... by jessaustin on Monday February 19, 2018 @12:30PM (#16414224)
...why not (eventually) a human life in an animal?

That's an interesting idea. If it's OK to hire humans as surrogates, why couldn't we create an animal to do the job? Especially if an animal with a wider pelvis (e.g. a small cow) were used, it could eventually be made safer than regular human pregnancy.

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Re:Human-sheep hybrids pave way for diabetes cure and mass o... by shanusmagnus on Monday February 19, 2018 @08:42AM (#16412786)
I think your worries could more profitably be directed to the industrial farming complex as it exists right now.
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Re:Human-sheep hybrids pave way for diabetes cure and mass o... by ldp01 on Monday February 19, 2018 @04:23AM (#16411749)
Are you suggesting humanity will create real life furries?

I guess it's the sort of thing you can count on someone doing the moment it's possible...

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Re:Human-sheep hybrids pave way for diabetes cure and mass o... by matte_black on Monday February 19, 2018 @07:12AM (#16412390)
It would be amazing to generate entirely new organs that don’t exist, to give humans capabilities they never had. I’m all for it.
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Re:Human-sheep hybrids pave way for diabetes cure and mass o... by Piskvorrr on Monday February 19, 2018 @01:10PM (#16414489)
Building hardware is the easy part. Making it play nice with the firmware (and, um, writing the firmware) is the hard part - we haven't been able to do that well with silicon, so far.
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