The Glade 4.0

But aren't they doing it in violation of a law?

Figures seen by the Daily Mail show that 155 ‘admixed’ embryos, containing both human and animal genetic material, have been created since the introduction of the 2008 Human Fertilisation Embryology Act.

This legalised the creation of a variety of hybrids, including an animal egg fertilised by a human sperm; ‘cybrids’, in which a human nucleus is implanted into an animal cell; and ‘chimeras’, in which human cells are mixed with animal embryos.

Beyond that, what if they could give humans the regenerative capabilities of lizards, (regrow lost limbs), or similar adaptations.

Obviously, then we will need to hybridize spider and human DNA.

Please be sure to demonstrate your "open minded" approach to religion and the religious, and continue to throw around terms like "religious zealots".
If you wanted to be thought of in terms more glowing than "passive-aggressive" and "needlessly antagonistic" maybe not casting a vague net over everyone who disagrees with you might be a way to go. Actually "speak truth to power" and call out these zealots and show why they are such zealotty zealots. Until you can bring yourself to do that, you'll continue to come across as a grudge holding little man without facts to back up his assertions.

That's because it's really hard to write a good story where lack of scientific progress **** over humanity.

That's because it's really hard to write a good story where lack of scientific progress **** over humanity.

Unga was cold in the night, for he never discovered fire. Then he died of exposure. The End.

I have quite possibly written better fiction than Stephanie Meyer... where is my movie deal?

No, no, no. You need conflict.

Unga was cold in the night. The wind howled directly into his meager cave as he tore another strip of flesh from the deer that he had scavenged. Shivering and hungry, he was close to death. Unga knew this, but he was powerless to change his lot. He had no blanket, no fire, and a branch that had fallen from a tree.

Grok had watched Unga, and knew that this would be his chance to make a friend. He gathered his satchel of things and hefted his torch and advanced to Unga's cave.

"Grahh! Ook urga mok ganga!"

Unga was startled at the sudden appearance of this stranger. He grabbed his tree branch and savagely beat Grok to death. Frightened of the torch, he pushed it into a nearby snowbank and extinguished it. He then threw the satchel of things as far away as he could. Unga returned to the back of his cave, cold and shivering and waited for death.

He didn't wait long.

Experiments to make animals look, sound or even think like people could soon be on the research agenda, according to a UK scientific body that has warned politicians and the public to start considering the implications.

The Academy of Medical Sciences has spent the past 18 months investigating present and future research into “animals containing human material”.

So far humanisation of animals has been limited to the insertion of relatively small numbers of human genes or cells into laboratory animals, mainly mice. This has led to many advances in understanding the causes of diseases and devising treatments for them, without triggering regulatory or ethical concerns beyond those already associated with animal research.

The academy’s review is based on what might happen in the near future, given the rapid pace of biological research.

“We are not aware of any work going on now that is likely to cause anxiety, but we wanted to take a proactive look at an area of science that has not received much public attention,” said Martin Bobrow, a medical genetics professor at Cambridge university who chaired the inquiry.

The review identified three types of experiments that might soon become possible and would cause particular concern: modifying animal brains to mirror human “cerebral function”; fertilising human eggs or sperm in an animal; or endowing animals with characteristics perceived as uniquely human such as facial shape, skin texture or speech.

Mice with human livers are already used in toxicology research. US scientists have also created mice in which one-quarter of the brain cells are human neurons, and they have discussed – but not gone ahead with – making a mouse in which all neurons are derived from human stem cells.

“If you replaced an entire mouse brain with human neurons, it would almost certainly still be a mouse, though with some interesting changes,” Prof Bobrow said. “But for something with a bigger and more complex brain, such as a primate, it is hard to guess what the result would be.”

Another controversial move would be to make animals sound like humans. A gene associated with human language has been transferred to mice. “These animals vocalise slightly differently from ordinary mice – but they don’t speak,” said Robin Lovell-Badge, head of stem cell biology at the National Institute for Medical Research.

“If you come home and your pet parrot says, ‘Who’s a pretty boy then?’, that’s one thing,” added Christopher Shaw, neurology professor at King’s College London. “If your pet monkey says it, that’s another.”

The academy recommends that the Home Office, which regulates animal experiments in the UK, establish a national expert body to provide specific advice on sensitive types of research involving humanised animals.

what could possibly go wrong?