Human-Animal Hybrid - Human and animal hybrid products

At a Southern California farm, the United States is now raising a special kind of mouse. On the surface, they are no different from normal mice, but they actually treat the neuron (nerve) cells of people .

They can eat and play on people's hands, then can run into the cage quickly. Looking at it is nothing special because they are no different from the same type but in their bodies, they contain the special parts that the rat family does not have, that is the human neurons (neurons) living because so they can see, hear and think.

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The product is known by the scientific community as Human-Animal Hybrid (short -lived product) or HAH product. The above mentioned HAH mice were created by Fred Gage, a biological expert at the Salk Institute, in order to understand how human neurons work in the body, especially the process of degeneration and destruction. in dementia such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.

Researching and learning about brain cells in the natural environment, especially the internal structure, the functions of the brain will help science to create new healing methods, overcome diseases. Neuropathy has not yet found specific drugs.

However, according to scientists, this type of human brain test is unacceptable, even if the animal's brain carries a very small amount of human brain cells, that's why when it is possible This news has shocked many people, including US President W. Bush.

He himself said that somehow, a scientist like Fred Gage would dare to do such a strange thing, dare to overcome the moral limits that need to be respected no matter how far the biology industry develops. Because of that, in 2006, President W. Bush asked Congress to ratify the law prohibiting ethical abuse in biomedical research, including studies of creating HAH products as outlined above. human life is a gift of God, no one is allowed to joke.

Not only has the opinion that even true scientific researchers call this a disaster, these products are considered Chimera (the snake-tailed goat monster, the lion head has been mentioned a lot in the Greek mythology), and even Greeks have called Chimera a monster because it is against the law of nature, it must be removed from human life.

The law prohibits the introduction of animal-to-animal hybrid animals approved in March 1984, but so far there have been a number of serious violations. For example, as soon as the law was enacted, the Nature magazine published on the cover of an HAH product called Geep was created by a Danish scientist named Steen Willad.

Geep - Embryonic product of a sheep and a goat (Photo: Scientificblogging)

It contains the embryonic stem cells of a sheep and a goat, a monstrous animal with a goat head, but a sheep's hair. Although it has not been classified as super-monstrous, it has been surprisingly biologically, and since then there have been many other achievements in the field of biology that have been argued for research and healing. human being becomes the focal point for a lot of bitter controversy.

Among the most scientific controversies is whether or not Chimera or HAH can create human organs to replace humans, or will be disguised for non-human purposes. Other virtues?

To produce these products, it was implanted either stem cells or slem cells, the material biologists hope to develop into any form of adult tissue. What is inside the fetus or animal embryo so that it grows to become a human part like the liver, kidneys right in the body of living animals.

Since 2002, tests of this kind have been conducted. For example, in 2002 a scientist named Alan Flake at Philadelphia Children's Hospital and Esmail Zanjani at Neva University, USA, collaborated to work on a project to introduce human germ cells into the newly developed fetus. the sheep when this fetus is growing in the womb of the mother sheep.

The results of these sheeps had tissues such as blood, cartilage, muscles and heart that resembled 40% of the human structure, although on the surface it was no different from a genuine sheep. In 2003, Yair Reisner at the Weizmann Institute, Israel, implanted kidney stem cells into a mouse to create a replicating product that kidneys function like human kidneys.

With the results on biologists, the creation of HAH or Chimera hybrid products is intended to create fully functional parts to replace humans such as kidneys, liver and heart.

Return to Fred Gage's project at the Salk Institute so we can understand more about this issue. Originally started in December 2005, Fred Gage implanted by injecting embryonic human stem cells into the brain regions of mouse fetal tissue as they develop in the womb of the mother mouse. After that, human cells become activated neurons that bind to the brain region of the mouse when they mature.

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Although the rat brain contains less than 1% of the human brain, the implanted mice have created better mechanisms to fight neurological diseases. However, public opinion has also put a lot of questions, for example, if the rat brain contains 100% of the human brain, then the catastrophe will go anywhere, especially the moral issue.

So people are worried that once these studies exceed the limits and are applied to high-grade primates like monkeys, gibbons or chimpanzees, the disaster will be much greater, especially for non-humanitarian purposes.

Khac Nam