Advance brings us closer to growing transplant organs inside animals or being able to genetically tailor compatible organs, say researchers
Source: Breakthrough as scientists grow sheep embryos containing human cells
One of my absolute best friends believes that the human race will kill itself within the next 40 years. I have been telling him that I didn’t believe that. And I now I see this story. Anybody remember the swine flu “epidemic” when we were appalled that other countries were allowing pigs and ducks to live with the Human family under the same roof and our news media proclaimed that this would spread disease?
Those animals were just living together they didn’t have their cells (with hundreds of thousands of hidden viruses) growing in another organism.
Mixing two living cell types with their cryptic viruses together is called a xenograft and it is just begging to have the animal virus mutate so that it can then infect the human cells.
Where are our government Regulators. Oh wait, some people actually believe that there’s way too much government bureaucracy– and in what little regulation we still have the regulators are chosen and controlled by the very organizations that they’re supposed to be regulating. Maybe my friend is right.
But then as my roommate says we can still love and cherish and appreciate the world every day. So that’s my permaculture recommendation to you all: love cherish and appreciate the world everyday.
Bob