Mice Created With Human Brain Cells (this gives me pause)

WhiteTara

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:34 PM
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Mice Created With Human Brain Cells (this gives me pause)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051212/ap_on_sc/mice_human_brains

Scientists announced Monday that they had created mice with small amounts of human brain cells in an effort to make realistic models of neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease.

Led by Fred Gage of the Salk Institute in San Diego, the researchers created the mice by injecting about 100,000 human embryonic stem cells per mouse into the brains of 14-day-old rodent embryos.

Those mice were each born with about 0.1 percent of human cells in each of their heads, a trace amount that doesn't remotely come close to "humanizing" the rodents.

"This illustrate that injecting human stem cells into mouse brains doesn't restructure the brain," Gage said.

Yikes!

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TallahasseeGrannie

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:37 PM
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1. Mice created with Human Brain Cells?

YOU MEAN LIKE BUSHCO?

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aquart

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Mon Dec-12-05 08:01 PM
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9. No, dear. Those are rats.

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IDemo

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:37 PM
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2. On the other side of the coin-->>

We already have HUMANS with tiny amounts of MICE brain cells:

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HysteryDiagnosis

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:38 PM
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3. Evolutionary regression gives me paws..... nt.

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TallahasseeGrannie

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Mon Dec-12-05 08:03 PM
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10. LOL LOL LOL

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Itchinjim

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Mon Dec-12-05 08:06 PM
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11. Now that's funny.

Good one.

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patdem

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:44 PM
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4. Do they now know they are goin to die..and will they invent Jesmouse?

This is just another GM product...WTF?

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Angry Girl

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:53 PM
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5. Evolution a la GOP: Mice created from men - several steps up for them!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

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HR_Pufnstuf

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:54 PM
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6. Yo!

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Journeyman

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:59 PM
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7. Yet another instance where knowledge and technology. . .

have begun to exceed by far our poor power to make ethical and moral sense of our actions.

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theophilus

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Mon Dec-12-05 08:01 PM
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8. Remember The Secret of N.I.M.H.?????? n/t

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Buns_of_Fire

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Mon Dec-12-05 09:02 PM
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12. ...or "Pinky and the Brain"

(Three guesses where Pinky's brain cells came from...)

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