advice : ethics : ETHICS QUESTIONS RE: HUMAN ORGANS GROWN IN ANIMALS [+] serious ballot by Cathexis created Mon Nov 22, 04 Experimentation is underway that has already successfully grown human organs in other animals (livers, hearts, brain cells, blood, etc.). Biologists call the resulting hybrid animals Chimeras, after the mythical Greek creature with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail. They are the products of experiments in which human stem cells were added to developing animal fetuses. Chimeras are allowing scientists to watch, for the first time, how nascent human cells and organs mature and interact — not in the cold isolation of laboratory dishes but inside the bodies of living creatures. Some are already revealing deep secrets of human biology and pointing the way toward new medical treatments. But with no federal guidelines in place, an awkward question hovers above the work: How human must a Chimera be before more stringent research rules should kick in? No rules: They are always animals Such research is unethical If the change can be proven to enhance Sentience If the change affects Behavioural characteristics Fetuses should not be implanted in other species when they can communicate If they can grow me a penis as big as a horses'. Ballot #59593 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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