First Human-Pig 'Chimera' Created in Milestone Study (theguardian.com)

Scientists have created a human-pig hybrid in a milestone study that raises the prospect of being able to grow human organs inside animals for use in transplants.

From a report: 

It marks the first time that embryos combining two large, distantly-related species have been produced. 

The creation of this so-called chimera -- named after the cross-species beast of Greek mythology -- has been hailed as a significant first step towards generating human hearts, livers and kidneys from scratch. 

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, who led the work on the part-pig, part-human embryos at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, said:

 "The ultimate goal is to grow functional and transplantable tissue or organs, but we are far away from that. This is an important first step." 

The study has reignited ethical concerns that have threatened to overshadow the field's clinical promise. 

The work inevitably raises the spectre of intelligent animals with humanised brains and also the potential for bizarre hybrid creatures to be accidentally released into the wild. 

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) placed a moratorium on funding for the controversial experiments last year while these risks were considered.

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It is interesting that these Frankenstein dudes always mention and say stuff like:

 "The ultimate goal is to grow functional and transplantable tissue or organs, but we are far away from that. This is an important first step." 

No one ever talks about bridging the God ordained safety gap between animal illnesses and human illnesses.

This kind of messing around with God's creation could quite possibly lead to pandemic, epidemics of infectious disease that might spread through human populations across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or even worldwide.

But: 

 "The ultimate goal is to grow functional and transplantable tissue or organs, but we are far away from that. This is an important first step." 

As if their bazaar experiments should be permitted.

God is not behind their actions!

The bible clearly states that as in the days of Noah so shall the last days be...

Go ahead and click on the above link and learn the truth of what is going on now

As in the days of Noah: Is history repeating itself with manipulation of human genes?

They apparently modified a gene in a number of embryos thought to cause disease.

 It is less than exacting because of the 28 embryos they tampered with only seven attempts were successful.

This is the first time that scientists have openly admitted to modifying human genes is an effort to create “designer” humans, even though in this instance the embryos did not survive, or so they said.

Three weeks earlier in a letter to Science a group of scientists hearing rumors this was happening came out publicly opposing gene manipulation in humans.

They don’t want it monitored.

They want it stopped.

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TIL that in 2013 a scientist injected human brain cells into a mouse brain, which improved the mouse's memory and ability to learn (directorsblog.nih.gov)