Human-Animal Chimeras Are O.K., Argues Ronald Bailey on NPR's Airtalk
National Institutes of Health bioethicists agree with me and lift research moratorium
The National Institutes of Health has taken steps to lift its moratorium on funding research that involves mixing human and animal cells. Such cross-species mixtures are called chimeras, after the creature from Greek mythology that was part lion, part goat, and part serpent.
As I explained earlier it is entirely ethical to grow human organs inside of pigs and sheep. Now the NIH agrees with me. Despite the NIH funding ban, some researchers have been conducting experiments to see if they can grow human organs in animals. For example, University of California, Davis developmental biologist Pablo Ross and his colleauges have experimented by injecting human stem cells into early-stage pig and sheep embryos in which genes for developing a pancreas have been disabled. The experiment seeks to find out if the human stem cells will occupy the vacant pancreas niche and generate a wholly human organ. The eventual goal of the work is to use induced pluripotent stem cells derived from the skin cells of patients to grow immunologically-matched replacement organs—hearts, livers, pancreases—in animals.
Some opponents of this type of research are concerned that human cells could migrate to animal brains and give them more human-like neural characteristics. Others worry that animals in which human cells have been transformed into gametes might mate and create human embryos. Proponents counter that there are techniques that could easily prevent such outcomes.
I argue the ethics of this research with long time anti-biotech activist Stuart Newman at KPCC's Airtalk program. Go here for the link to the audio.
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The Island of Doctor Bailey.
Bart Simpson: “How would I go about creating a man-monkey type of creature?”
Teacher: “You can’t do that. That would be playing God.”
Bart Simpson: “God schmod! I want my monkey-man!”
DAMN YOU
Ha! What an idiot.
*murders pig that was growing Fist’s new kidney*
I want a second kidney, and I don’t care how many animals I need to sacrifice to get it. And if it smells like bacon, so much the better!
“your weight is up 50lbs and your cholesterol is through the roof”
“I know doc, but the constant smell of bacon makes me hungry all the time!”
So, when you eat asparagus with a pig kidney, your urine comes out smelling like bacon-wrapped asparagus? Classy!
I think the cheap hookers would be impressed.
I think they would be more impressed if he wasn’t peeing on them in the first place.
Especially if they were paid extra for that very thing.
Whadda ya mean “if”?
STEVE SMITH NOT NEED LAB. WILL PROVIDE DNA TO ANYTHING HE CAN CATCH, IF YOU GET DRIFT.
God schmod! I want my monkey man!
I see they got a new head shot of you, Ron.
Also, who could resist bacon with a human heart?
Obvious joke is obvious
I fear that ManBearPig will be a real thing.
“Fear”, or “hope”?
Have we learned nothing from Shou Tucker?
Seriously, Ron, all FMA watchers/readers need trigger warning on the subject.
Ed…ward? Still gives me chills.
+1 Scar.
Hopefully growing a human pancreas in a pig will end the senseless slaughter of interns in SugarFree’s office.
I think he would keep up it up, just for the ritual’s own sake.
If you don’t use your budget, they give you less the next year.
This is how man-bear-pig begins.
“There is something out there which threatens our very existence and may be the end to the human race as we know it. I’m talking, of course, about ManBearPig.”
Who makes the rules?
Am I the only one with a sudden craving for bacon?
Should it be legal to shoot a Trumpet? Maybe a Reason article is coming to explain the pros and cons.
Trump supporter shot
Expect there to be more of this because Trump can’t get a lid on his violent rhetoric.
Long pig?
yes, they will also be producing penile replacements, next question.
Tender and succulent. Try a buttock.
I thought of you.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry…..t_1139020&
Some opponents of this type of research are concerned that human cells could migrate to animal brains and give them more human-like neural characteristics.
With human minds capable of coming up with that sort of bullshit, I don’t think we need to worry overmuch.
Also, sign me up.
I’m sorry, kids, but human and animal DNA just won’t splice. Haven’t you ever heard that song by Loverboy?
Do do do do, human and animal DNA just won’t splice!
my best friend’s mom makes $74 an hour on the computer . She has been without work for five months but last month her payment was $19746 just working on the computer for a few hours. find more information …
?????????? http://www.factoryofincome.com
only takes a few hours on the computer to find a willing buyer for your kidney.
my best friend’s mom makes $74 an hour on the computer . She has been without work for five months but last month her payment was $19746 just working on the computer for a few hours. find more information …
?????????? http://www.factoryofincome.com
I walked into my friend’s gun shop once and was greeted with “Hey Suthen, what can we do for you?”
I answered “I want to be younger, taller, smarter and better looking.”
I had to settle for coffee that day, but maybe soon my wish will be granted.
You know who else turned in their parents?
http://nbc4i.com/2016/08/08/bo…..-syringes/
Every baby ever born?
Isn’t this the movie where Adrien Brody fucks the human/monkey hybrid or something?
The Splice creature actually looked really cool.
Too bad the movie was terrible.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Slow on the draw people. For Shame!
+4 Monkey Asses
How the average person thinks genetics work.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_FoaomccQJY
Bailey is just shilling for big government here. Everyone knows the government has been working on human pig hybrids for years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8pPZhr11z4
You get a few of those pig-men walking around, suddenly I’m looking a lot better!
Donkey dicks
How about the ethics of taking people’s money by force in order to fund research that the taxpayer has a moral opposition to? Seems to me a moratorium is a fine compromise. Or do they also prohibit private donations to chimera research as well?
Where do I get a moratorium on blowing up people in the Middle East?
fantasyland probably
Imma say, somewhere in the Middle East?
I’m more concerned with taking people’s money by force to enable the use of force against people in ways I have moral objections to. I’m all for cutting research funding too, but when it comes to biology especially, someone is going to have a moral objection to just about anything.
Well I’m more concerned with what I’m having for dinner, but I rather find this topic important too. Much as with the death penalty for the most guilty and vile, if you can’t defeat the “best” arguments for central planning, you can never defeat it; it will just grow back.
I just want an all-bacon pig. Until then, fuck science.
Just cooked up a pork loin (some kind of heritage breed, I forget which). Rubbed with salt and sugar, sat in fridge for 16 hours, smoked in a 300 degree grill until done.
Basically, it turned into something resembling a 5 pound chunk of bacon, only juicier. Holee. Fuck. Is it good.
That is all. Carry on.
Despite the NIH funding ban, some researchers have been conducting experiments to see if they can grow human organs in animals. For example,
Ron, you do know that NIH is only a portion of the research funding in this country? Just because NIH doesn’t fund it, doesn’t prevent you and all of the rest of the pigmen and the women who love them from funding this research. Just saying.
If they’re OK , do they get to vote?
Only Elephant Man and Donkey Man, the other creatures must submit to their joint rule.
Big Man, Pig Man,
HaHa, charade you are.
RE: Human-Animal Chimeras Are O.K., Argues Ronald Bailey on NPR’s Airtalk
Yes they are.
Just look at the two human-animal chimeras running for president in the republican and democratic parties.
Who can argue with that?
Q: How do you make a human smell like bacon?
A: Give him a badge.