Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/01/chinese-scientists-are-making.html
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Get in early to order your own Organ Inc. Pigoon™.*
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Not only are stories from The Onion coming true, now stories from Weekly World News are coming true as well.
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Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!
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I wonder if they have a lair?
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But are they happy mutants?
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I for one welcome our new human-monkey overlords!
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Nothing like animals having human cells in them to assist in diseases jumping species barriers.
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So. What could possibly go wrong?
And shouldn’t the headline read “Spanish and Chinese Scientists…”?
[T]he Spanish-born biologist Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, who operates a lab at the Salk Institute in California,
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Nooooooooo… I don’t like monkeys… this is a waking nightmare.
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Leave the poor monkeys alone.
If human organs were viable in another species, then there organs would likely be viable in us, so whats the point of the years of monkey torture to try put human organs in them.
It just seems like immoral, expensive, risky research done purely to see if they can.
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If I needed a new heart and one could be grown using my own cells but it had to be done inside a monkey? Um sorry monkey with human heart but… sign me up.
I’d prefer it be grown in a human clone of myself (ala The Island, or never let me go). Still even more preferable to be a clone that’s missing a brain or some critical mass of neurons so that it doesn’t suffer.
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Going to the zoo is going to get weird.
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We’re far closer already to just building the organ in a lab. This is an unnecessary way to accomplish that task.
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and you’d also be ok with the many thousands of monkeys killed researching how to do it, in the hopes that it might be possible, and that you might develop a heart problem needing a transplant thats discovered with the years of lead time needed for a custom you-monkey hybrid to grow large enough for that heart to be able to pump blood to even a small part of your body?
That seems like one hell of a high risk-reward ratio.
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well if I was the only conceivable beneficiary… no I’m not actually that selfish. If it’s thousands of human lives? vs thousands of monkey lives? It’s not a difficult decision. Sorry not sorry?
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