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Will Scientists Create "Manimals"? Human-Animal Embryos Get Approval
British scientists will be allowed to research diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s using human-animal hybrid embryos, after the House of Commons rejected a ban recently.
Posted 5/26/08'Now we have the technology that can make a cloned child'
Posted 4/21/08Anti-cancer chicken eggs produced
UK scientists have developed genetically modified chickens capable of laying eggs containing proteins needed to make cancer-fighting drugs.
Posted 1/16/07Australians must Accept GM food, or Die of Starvation, expert says
Posted 5/9/07Body absorbs 5lb of make-up chemicals a year
Posted 6/25/07British body backs inter-species clones
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Making human-animal embryos for scientific experiments should be allowed because of the benefits to science and medicine, British experts said in a report released for Sunday.
Posted 6/18/07Bush warns of 'epic battle' between Shi'ites, Sunnis
"Ladies and gentlemen, nothing is more important at this moment in our history than for America to succeed in the Middle East," Bush was speaking specifically about the situation in Iraq, but referred to the advantage Iran would gain should US forces withdraw and the "nightmare scenario" of an "epic battle" between Sunni and Shi'ite extremists break out.
Posted 1/26/07Climate change: Artificial worlds hold key to figuring out a real problem
Braconnot is head of computer modelling at the Laboratory for Climate and Environment Sciences (LSCE) near Paris, run by France's top scientific agencies to get a fix on where Earth's troubled climate system is headed.
Posted 1/24/07Colossal Squid May Be Microwaved
It'd yield calamari the size of tractor tires, but that's not why scientists might use a giant microwave machine to defrost this recently caught sea monster.
Posted 3/27/07Computer that plays God
But now, that critical decision may be turned over to a sophisticated computer program. New software should soon be able to predict more accurately than loved ones how comatose patients would choose to be treated, if they were able to make the decision themselves.
Posted 6/25/07Computers 'could store entire life by 2026'
Posted 12/13/06Consumers Flood FDA With Over 130,000 Concerns Over Clone Food
Posted 5/7/07Couples close to producing first "Designer Babies"
Two couples with a family history of breast cancer are hoping to become the first people to use genetic screening to create designer babies who are immune from inheriting the potentially fatal disease.
Posted 4/27/07Debate on Interspecies Cloning Reignites
Posted 3/28/07Debating The Impact Of GM Crops 10 Years On
Is the expansion of genetically modified (GM) crops still seen as risky or will it in fact help with the doubling of the food supply required as Earth's population hits nine billion within the next 40 years?
Posted 4/4/07Direct Brain-to-Game Interface Worries Scientists
Your brain might be your next videogame controller. That might sound pretty awesome, but the prospect of brain-controlled virtual joysticks has some scientists worried that games might end up controlling our brains.
Posted 9/7/07'Doomsday vault' to resist global warming effects
An Arctic "doomsday vault" aimed at providing mankind with food in case of a global catastrophe will be designed to sustain the effects of climate change, the project's builders said Friday as they unveiled the architectural plans.
Posted 2/9/07Door left open for creation of hybrid human-animal embryos
Posted 1/15/07EU to look at cloned meat safety
Posted 3/12/07Fears That Human-Genes Frankenfoods Will Spread
The rice is a major step in so-called Frankenstein Foods, the first mingling of human-origin genes and those from plants. But the US Department of Agriculture has already signalled it plans to allow commercial cultivation.
Posted 3/9/07Flying saucer in production in the US
Described by its creators as “the ultimate off-road vehicle", the saucer-shaped vehicle can take off and land vertically and travel at a maximum speed of 100mph.
Posted 8/6/07Fourth-Generation Pig Cloned in Japan
Posted 8/10/07From Humans To Crops: Could Genetic Modification Be Killing The Bees?
With reports coming in about a scourge affecting honeybees, researchers are launching a drive to find the cause of the destruction. The reasons for rapid colony collapse are not clear. Old diseases, parasites and new diseases are being looked at.
Posted 3/14/07Genetic Modification and Pandora's Box
Rumor has it Albert Einstein once declared humanity could only outlive the bee by about four years. His reasoning was simple: "no more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man."
Posted 5/3/07Genetically Engineered Organisms Invade Our Planet - What's the Harm?
For a long time now, Americans have been told by the scientists who developed genetically modified (GM) crops and organisms that GM is safe and wonderful.
Posted 3/16/07Geneticists create 'next generation' of GM crops
Posted 5/30/07Germans open Embalming factory for preserving corpses <- How disgusting!!!
The German creator of the "Body Worlds" shows currently on tour in Asia, Europe and the United States opened a new factory in the former East German city of Guben on Thursday, where visitors can watch corpses being preserved.
Posted 11/17/06Go-ahead for hybrid human-animal embryos
THE government yesterday bowed to pressure from scientists to allow the creation of hybrid animal-human embryos for stem-cell research.
Posted 5/21/07Hawking: Man must leave planet Earth [A way to explain away the Rapture when it occurs???]
Mankind will have to leave planet Earth to ensure the long-term survival of the species, the theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking warned today.
Posted 12/1/06Holy Grail of Clean power is coming soon, scientists believe
Posted 4/2/07Human-animal embryo study wins approval
Posted 9/5/07Human/Animal hybrid embryos have right to life, say Catholic bishops
Posted 6/27/07Human Cloning Farms Gathers Momentum in Australia
"This bill commits the creation of embryos for the specific purpose of their research and their destruction … motive does matter, intent is important."
Posted 4/23/07The Island of Dr. Moreau - Human 'cybrids' to get go-ahead
UK scientists could create part-human, part-animal embryos.
Posted 3/5/07Korean team unveils first cloned wolves
Posted 3/28/07Legalise sale of body parts, says Harley Street surgeon
A leading surgeon is calling for new laws allowing the sale of organs from live donors in Britain - despite fierce opposition from the medical establishment.
Posted 2/13/07Man's Genetically Modified Food Supply… and Lo, a Black Horse…
We have reengineered our food supply for increased efficiency with arrogant disregard for Biblical restraint directives and prohibitions. In a scenario reminiscent of the mythical Pandora, ancient ills have been released by an irresponsible society which has recklessly begun to cross forbidden boundaries imposed by an ‘outdated’ Sovereign. In the past when these limits were approached a Sovereign God has intervened on behalf of mankind.
Posted 5/1/07Military Builds Robotic Insects
Israel is developing a robot the size of a hornet to attack terrorists. And although the prototype will not fly for three years, killer Micro Air Vehicles, or MAVs, are much closer than that.
Posted 4/2/07Monsanto India: GM foods, crops - preparing for worldwide genetic control
Posted 5/18/07Mouse embryos cloned from unfertilised eggs
Posted 3/14/07Now scientists create a sheep that's 15% human (Goal is to produce organs for human transplant)
Posted 3/27/07People eating genetically modified food may have short lifespan
It is generally believed that rats, cockroaches and cyanobacteria can survive any biological catastrophe. But recently, researchers have once again stated that there is a delayed action poison which can slowly kill even enduring rodents. Genetically modified food.
Posted 2/9/07“Playing God” -Scientists in Final Stage of Creating Man-made Life
According to Venter, it will only be a few more weeks before manmade life is unveiled in his very own laboratory. “It will be one of the bright milestones in human history, changing our conceptual view of life.” Said Venter.
Posted 6/25/07Poodle Cloned In South Korea
Posted 1/26/07Questions raised about Monsanto Genetically Modified corn
Greenpeace said a study it had commissioned that was published in the journal Archives of Environmental Contamination and Technology showed rats fed for 90 days on Monsanto's MON863 maize showed "signs of toxicity" in the liver and kidneys.
Posted 3/16/07Rare "Prehistoric" Shark Photographed Alive [PHOTO GALLERY]
Posted 2/2/07Record Biotech Plantings in 2006
A biotechnology advocacy group reported Thursday that a record number of biotech crops were planted worldwide last year, but critics complained the gains were more of the same: aimed at making corn, soy and cotton crops resistant to weed killers and bugs.
Posted 1/22/07Researchers: Serious Concern Over GM Crops
Posted 3/26/07Restrictions Sought On Sales Of Consumable Clones
Facing the possibility of food from cloned animals ending up on supermarket shelves within a few years, consumer groups and lawmakers are sounding the alarm about potential dangers and looking to put new restrictions on the sale of such products in California.
Posted 4/16/07Review: The Future of Food, a must-see documentary that exposes the biotech threat to life on our planet
Posted 5/7/07Robot Code of Ethics to Prevent Android Abuse, Protect Humans
The government of South Korea is drawing up a code of ethics to prevent human abuse of robots—and vice versa.
Posted 3/20/07S. Korean team produces three cloned dogs
Posted 12/19/06Science and Faith Join Forces on Global Warming
Posted 1/17/07Science Finding Ways to Regrow Fingers
The recipe sounds like "you put it in a cauldron under a full moon," Gardiner observed.
Posted 02/20/07Scientists allowed to experiment on hybrid embryos
Research into potentially life-saving medical treatments using part-human, part-animal embryos is to be allowed after a rethink by ministers.
Posted 5/18/07Scientists Clone Mice from Adult Skin Stem Cells
Posted 2/16/07Scientists Prepare for Interspecies Cloning
At least three respected teams of British scientists have reignited the moral debate over inserting human genes into animal eggs by proposing experiments similar to Cibelli's.
Posted 3/27/07Scientists Tell God To Step Aside: Behold The Dawn Of GM Babies
Proposed legislation says researchers would be allowed to alter the genetic blueprint of an embryo up to two weeks old. Ethical campaigners fear this could herald an era of eugenics in which couples would engineer their children to be as perfect as possible.
Posted 3/5/07Sea Creatures to Be Tracked Electronically
Posted 2/14/07Shuman (15% human sheep)
Fascinating photo from Steve Quayle!
Posted 4/9/07Sun warms the Earth too dangerously
If the sun warms the Earth too dangerously, the time may come to draw the shade. The "shade" would be a layer of pollution deliberately spewed into the atmosphere to help cool the planet.
Posted 11/17/06Sweden Mulls Freeze-Drying As New Burial Method
Under the new method, the corpse is taken to a temperature of minus 196 degrees Celsius in a liquid nitrogen bath and the body is broken down into a rough powder through mechanical vibrations.
Posted 5/18/07Today's Special: Cloneburgers , Clone Milkshakes & GM Fries
Posted 3/30/07Transgenic chickens lay drugs in eggs
BRITISH scientists have succeeded in producing multiple generations of genetically modified hens that produce pharmaceutical proteins in the whites of their eggs.
Posted 1/24/07Transgenic Cow-Human Clones Produce Insulin In Milk
Argentine scientists say they have created four cloned and genetically modified calves capable of producing human insulin in their milk, a step they said could cut the cost of treating diabetes.
Posted 4/23/07UK Government Proposals Approve Human/Animal Embryo Hybrids
Posted 12/13/06Unprecedented Support For Creating Human-Animal Hybrids
An unprecedented show of support for experiments to create hybrid human-animal embryos for stem-cell research was delivered by MPs, charities and patient groups last night.
Posted 4/10/07U.S. Approves GMO Rice With Human Proteins
The U.S. government gave approval on Wednesday for a biotech company to plant rice genetically modified to produce human proteins in Kansas.
Posted 5/21/07USDA OKs Plan to Grow Genetically Modified Rice
Posted 3/5/07What would happen if the robots turned against us?
In Japan, they work as carers and look eerily lifelike ... but what would happen if the robots turned against us? No invention in the past century has better evoked the uneasy relationship we have with technology - a mixture of awe, huge (and usually unfulfilled) expectations and some fear.
Posted 4/30/07Wis. Farmer Finds New Calf Has Two Noses
Posted 5/14/07World Champion Barrel Race Horse Cloned
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Barrel racer Charmayne James knew scientists had figured out how to clone mice, sheep and cats. But if any creature deserved to be cloned, she thought it was her gelding Scamper, the retired 10-time world champion. The result, Clayton, has exceeded James' expectations. The foal even bristles, just like Scamper, when touched on a certain spot behind his ear.
Posted 11/17/06World's First Cloned Cat Has Kittens
Posted 12/15/06