tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12625691.post1347466152429569052..comments2024-02-29T01:43:23.900-05:00Comments on Women's Bioethics Blog: Of Mice and Men -- and HuMice?Linda MacDonald Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02378544626277000243noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12625691.post-29976402307779905402009-09-14T16:41:44.696-04:002009-09-14T16:41:44.696-04:00http://www.biopoliticaltimes.org/article.php?id=47...http://www.biopoliticaltimes.org/article.php?id=4705<br />mousey brains on crack...or is that the researcher?<br />"<br />If visible human-like characteristics might arise, have all those involved in these experiments, including animal care staff, been informed and educated about this?"<br /><br />"Henry Greely, who has studied proposals by his Stanford colleague Irving Weissman to create human-mouse chimeras, believes "there is a nontrivial risk of conferring some significant aspects of humanity" on the animals."<br /><br />He had also asked the committee for an opinion about a "thought experiment" - about the ethics of making chimeric mice with brains that are a hundred percent human. As long as the mice's brains continued to look mouse-like, he told the Washington Post, they could be used for research.<br /><br />"But if there were any sign that they were taking on a "distinctly human architecture," he said, they could be killed."<br /><br />What is wrong with these boys who torture animals? Eventually they go on to torture humans.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13983925115023650864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12625691.post-44818862843151790512007-06-20T15:10:00.000-04:002007-06-20T15:10:00.000-04:00This is a hoax everyone. Take a deep breath and l...This is a hoax everyone. Take a deep breath and laugh a little.Andrea Kalfoglouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00115261216835992626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12625691.post-60990790894256530442007-06-16T03:34:00.000-04:002007-06-16T03:34:00.000-04:00My hamster wanted to chat with the HuMouse, but th...My hamster wanted to chat with the HuMouse, but then the universe just exploded.LBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15645948045234804487noreply@blogger.com