Originally posted by jimslyp69No, it's just chemistry. If you read the article the intention is to use it as a laboratory technique to help develope treatments. Beyond the early stages of research they'll use human cells, the purpose of this is to be able to get through the early stages so they have an idea of what they are doing before using human stem cells, which there's a limited supply of because you get them through a surgical procedure done on women.
More than just twisted. I think it's very scary.
The cell they get is to all intents and purposes human, the only non human DNA is in the cell mitocrondria, which they don't know how to replace. The cell nucleus is completely replaced and within a fairly short amount of time all the proteins in the cell will be human proteins, because that's what the DNA now in the cell codes for. The only problems that can happen are because there's some incompatibility between the mitochondria and the nucleus in which case the cell will die quickly, or from diseases which attack the mitochondria crossing the species barrier. As long as they use human stem cells for any actual treatment I don't see that there's a problem.
Originally posted by DeepThoughtSorry. Got my wires crossed. I thought they were going to use cow cells for the actual treatment. Needless to say that this could be the mother of all disasters.
No, it's just chemistry. If you read the article the intention is to use it as a laboratory technique to help develope treatments. Beyond the early stages of research they'll use human cells, the purpose of this is to be able to get through the early stages so they have an idea of what they are doing before using human stem cells, which there's a limit ...[text shortened]... s they use human stem cells for any actual treatment I don't see that there's a problem.