It threatens to ignite a profound ethical dilemma.
It's one of the most controversial scientific projects ever conceived, a group of university researchers in California's Silicon Valley is preparing to create a mouse whose brain will be composed entirely of human cells.
Stuart Little becomes a reality.
Researchers at Stanford University have already succeeded in breeding mice with brains that are one per cent human cells.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml.../ixnewstop.html
Full Version: Man or mouse?
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So, Dr. Frankenstein we meet again! Engarde!! 
QUOTE(normdoering @ Mar 10 2005, 10:14 AM)
It threatens to ignite a profound ethical dilemma.
It's one of the most controversial scientific projects ever conceived, a group of university researchers in California's Silicon Valley is preparing to create a mouse whose brain will be composed entirely of human cells.
Stuart Little becomes a reality.
Researchers at Stanford University have already succeeded in breeding mice with brains that are one per cent human cells.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml.../ixnewstop.html
It's one of the most controversial scientific projects ever conceived, a group of university researchers in California's Silicon Valley is preparing to create a mouse whose brain will be composed entirely of human cells.
Stuart Little becomes a reality.
Researchers at Stanford University have already succeeded in breeding mice with brains that are one per cent human cells.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml.../ixnewstop.html
Didn't they do the reverse with the Chimp that's on the WH ?
QUOTE(lawnorder @ Mar 10 2005, 10:06 AM)
Didn't they do the reverse with the Chimp that's on the WH ?
Excellent!!
The Island of Doctor Moreau
H. G. Wells
"On a deceivingly beautiful island in the South Seas exists the sinister kingdom of Doctor Moreau. Shipwrecked in this seeming paradise, the unfortunate Edward Prendick stumbles upon the wild beastly creations of the sadistic doctor and enters into a bizarre and terrifying world of a doctor who plays an evil God and cruelly creates monstrosities of living creatures."
Imagination becomes reality...
H. G. Wells
"On a deceivingly beautiful island in the South Seas exists the sinister kingdom of Doctor Moreau. Shipwrecked in this seeming paradise, the unfortunate Edward Prendick stumbles upon the wild beastly creations of the sadistic doctor and enters into a bizarre and terrifying world of a doctor who plays an evil God and cruelly creates monstrosities of living creatures."
Imagination becomes reality...
I think if it helps advance cures that it would be beneficial....but sheesh we don't want them getting too intellectual on us! Think planet of the mice.......
Think planet of the mice.......
More Mice??? Was this one intelligent? 
The Smoking Mouse
Because particle physicists cannot directly see the objects they study, they rely on deduction and decay products to detect nature's tiny, ephemeral particles. At Fermilab, for example, scientists use deduction to discover the presence of quarks, leptons, bosons and mice–as well as, of course, their anti-particles.
Recently, scientists found evidence for a complex baryonic life form inside a 1200-pound superconducting magnet in Fermilab's Technical Division. Though no one actually saw a mouse, Fermilab Technician Dan Smith uncovered nesting material and bird remnants deep within the "H spool" magnet. According to Smith and other technicians who observed these materials, the nest pieces and chewed bird head contribute direct evidence for the existence of a mouse. However, scientists are still trying to figure out how the mouse got in.
"On the outside of the magnet, there's a stainless steel box," said Smith. "You have to grind off the weld joints to get inside, and there are a good couple miles of welds — literally. Inside there's liquid helium, and then an insulating vacuum. And that's where we found the nest and bird head, which we still have."
Because many types of particles occur only rarely in collisions, it often takes years for physicists to detect new forms of matter. "In the 30 years I've been here," said Smith, "I've never, ever seen something like this."
As for the anti-matter of the mouse, it's actually easier to find than the real matter version. In an unofficial survey, a wide majority of human participants were found to be anti-mice.
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000082
The Smoking Mouse
Because particle physicists cannot directly see the objects they study, they rely on deduction and decay products to detect nature's tiny, ephemeral particles. At Fermilab, for example, scientists use deduction to discover the presence of quarks, leptons, bosons and mice–as well as, of course, their anti-particles.
Recently, scientists found evidence for a complex baryonic life form inside a 1200-pound superconducting magnet in Fermilab's Technical Division. Though no one actually saw a mouse, Fermilab Technician Dan Smith uncovered nesting material and bird remnants deep within the "H spool" magnet. According to Smith and other technicians who observed these materials, the nest pieces and chewed bird head contribute direct evidence for the existence of a mouse. However, scientists are still trying to figure out how the mouse got in.
"On the outside of the magnet, there's a stainless steel box," said Smith. "You have to grind off the weld joints to get inside, and there are a good couple miles of welds — literally. Inside there's liquid helium, and then an insulating vacuum. And that's where we found the nest and bird head, which we still have."
Because many types of particles occur only rarely in collisions, it often takes years for physicists to detect new forms of matter. "In the 30 years I've been here," said Smith, "I've never, ever seen something like this."
As for the anti-matter of the mouse, it's actually easier to find than the real matter version. In an unofficial survey, a wide majority of human participants were found to be anti-mice.
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000082
QUOTE(DWB04 @ Mar 10 2005, 10:36 PM)
... sheesh we don't want them getting too intellectual on us! Think planet of the mice.......
Think planet of the mice.......Think "Pinky and the Brain" !!!
It's all an attempt to create more Republican voters.
QUOTE(normdoering @ Mar 11 2005, 05:57 AM)
Think "Pinky and the Brain" !!!
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