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Work on INTER-SPECIES stem cells starting. Oh noes.

Posted Feb 24, 2007 at 09:19PM by Chris L. Listed in: Biomedical Technology Tags: stem cells, DNA
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Time for a daily serving of the bizarre, and no, this isn't about giant squid that will make tire-sized calamares... although this story could be related to using stem cells to pump up the dirty pillows. The Korea Times reports on efforts by a team at the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology to farm stem cells from (and we embolden text as emphasis) combining monkey cells with cow egg cells.

Er... didn't you guys watch or read The Island of Dr. Moreau when you were children or something?

The exact term is "interspecies nuclear transfer" - transferring genetic material from one species into the cells of another species. In this case, last month, monkey DNA was successfully infused into cow ova (egg cells) whose nuclei have been removed. While the resulting blastocyst cells, from which stem cells are extracted, failed to thrive, the team was confident they were on a roll in their research.

The future application of this tech - if society would allow them, the research team warned - would be to make human stem cells (with human genetic material) with animal ova, so as to sidestep ethical concerns governing the use of human embryos. Er, well and good on the intention department, but does anyone have a scientific guess as to any potential side effects of this move? Okay, how about some wild animal guesses? We're not kidding. Never mind the ethics: human DNA in animal egg cells. Like we said: didn't anyone watch The Island of Dr. Moreau?

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