01/31/2017 – Chimeras, Human Genetic Manipulation, & Designer Babies

Tuesday 01/31/2017 – 7:30pm EDT, 4:30pm PDT (Show Notes)

(Mad Scientists Exposed starts at 90 minutes into schedule block.)

human-pig chimeras in the news

Top stories

  • Human-pig
    ‘chimera’: Ethics
    and medical
    promise of growing human organs in animals

    Genetic Literacy Project · 1 day ago

  • Human-Pig
    Chimeras Created,
    Could One Day Aid
    in Organ Transplants

    Yahoo News · 1 day ago

  • Scientists
    Successfully
    Create Human-Pig
    Chimera Embryos

    Yahoo News · 1 day ago

More for human-pig chimeras

First Human-Pig Chimera Is a Step Toward Custom Organs | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/…/first-human–pig–chimera-step-toward-custom-…
5 days ago – Scientists at the Salk Institute report today the first ever embryos containing cells from both pigs and humans.

First human-pig chimeras created, raising hopes for transplantable …

https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/26/first-chimera–human–pig/
6 days ago – Cell Pigs at the Agropor facility in Spain are being used in the chimera experiments. No human–pig chimeras were allowed to develop past the …

Human-Pig Hybrid Created in the Lab—Here Are the Facts

news.nationalgeographic.com/…/human–pig-hybrid-embryo-chimera-or…
5 days ago – Scientists hope the chimera embryos represent key steps toward life-saving lab-grown organs. This pig embryo was injected with human cells early in its development and grew to be four weeks old. … In a remarkable—if likely controversial—feat, scientists announced today that they …

Scientists use stem cells to create human/pig chimera embryos …

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170126132536.htm
5 days ago – Efforts by researchers to grow the first embryos containing cells from humans and pigs proved more challenging than anticipated, they report in …

Human-Pig Chimeras Created for the First Time | Smart News …

www.smithsonianmag.com/…/human–pig–chimeras-created-first-time-18…
4 days ago – Yesterday, researchers published a paper in the journal Cell announcing that they had successfully produced the first human–pig chimera—an …

Human-pig ‘chimera embryos’ detailed – BBC News

www.bbc.com/news/health-38717930
5 days ago – Embryos that are less than 0.001% human – and the rest pig – have been made and analysed by scientists. It is the first proof chimeras – named …

First human-pig ‘chimera’ created in milestone study | Science | The …

https://www.theguardian.com › Science › Genetics

5 days ago – Scientists have created a human–pig hybrid in a milestone study that raises the prospect of being able to grow human organs inside animals for …

Human-pig chimeras are being grown – what will they let us do? | New …

https://www.newscientist.com/…/2092430-human–pig–chimeras-are-bein…
Jun 6, 2016 – Human–pig chimeras are being grown in the US. The aim of the research, led by Pablo Ross at the University of California, Davis, is to grow …

Scientists Successfully Create Human-Pig Chimera Embryos

www.popularmechanics.com/science/a24940/human–pig–chimeras/

4 days ago – This could be the first step to growing transplantable human organs in pigs.

definition of Chimera

chime•ra

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  • n.
    An organism, organ, or part consisting of two or more tissues of different genetic composition, produced as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering.
  • n.
    A substance, such as an antibody, created from the proteins or genes or two different species.
  • n.
    An individual who has received a transplant of genetically and immunologically different tissue.
More at Wordnik from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

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Science Charging ahead with human/non-human Chimeras
controversy over invention of Brain Death definition

Richie Allen Show: US Doctors Astonishing Claim That Patients Are Being Murdered In Hospitals For Their Organs!

Brain death (BD) is defined as the state of irreversible loss of the clinical functions of the brain. 1. Brain–dead patients are irreversibly comatose and they lack all clinical function of the brainstem, including the drive to breathe. … Despite this controversy, the legal and policy status of brain death appears robust …Mar 20, 2015

Determination and Associated Controversies of Brain Death

www.neurologyadvisor.com/general…/determining-brain–death/…/404490/
About this result •

Controversies Surrounding Brain Death – American College of Chest …

www.chestnet.org/News/…/Controversies-Surrounding-Brain–Death
Jan 22, 2014 – Legally and medically, she is dead. … In a presidential commission that consisted of doctors, lawyers, and bioethicists, brain death was defined as “the irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem” and established detailed clinical steps needed to make that determination.

Brain Death Really Is Death | Time.com

time.com/194/brain–death-really-is-death/
Jan 3, 2014 – In both cases Jahi and Marlese have been declared brain dead. In both cases there is a huge controversy over whether their … Both California and Texas state law realize the reality of what brain death is and what it means.

Determination and Associated Controversies of Brain Death

www.neurologyadvisor.com/general…/determining-brain–death/…/40449…
Mar 20, 2015 – Brain death (BD) is defined as the state of irreversible loss of the clinical functions of the brain. 1. Brain–dead patients are irreversibly comatose and they lack all clinical function of the brainstem, including the drive to breathe. … Despite this controversy, the legal and policy status of brain death appears robust …

BRAIN DEATH, CARDIAC DEATH, AND THE DEAD DONOR RULE

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › NCBI › Literature › PubMed Central (PMC)
by RM Sade – ‎2011 – ‎Cited by 12 – ‎Related articles

Everyone knows what “brain dead” means: a person whose brain no longer works … deal of controversy about the relationship between determination of death …

Jewish Law – Articles – “The Brain Death Controversy in Jewish Law”

www.jlaw.com/Articles/brain.html
Whether this standard comports with halacha is a matter of great controversy … The concept of total “brain death” as an alternative to the older definition of …

Controversies About Brain Death | JAMA | The JAMA Network

jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/184298
by FG Miller – ‎2009 – ‎Cited by 3 – ‎Related articles

Jul 22, 2009 – Patients with brain death maintained on mechanical ventilation … of the Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death.

Girl at center of ‘brain death’ controversy dies before Nevada hearing …

https://www.lifesitenews.com/…/girl-sparking-brain–death–controversy-di…
Jan 7, 2016 – Aden Hailu’s case has forced medical practitioners to confront the controversial definition of ‘brain death‘ and the live organ harvesting that …

The Brain Death Controversy in Jewish Law – Jewish Virtual Library

www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/braindead.html
Whether this standard comports with halacha is a matter of great controversy … The concept of total “brain death” as an alternative to the older definition of …
People also ask
What is the dead donor rule?
Is brain dead the same as dead?
What is whole brain death?
What organs can be donated after cardiac death?

Families and Physicians Debate the True Meaning of Brain Death …

www.thedailybeast.com/…/families-and-physicians-debate-the-true-mean…
Jan 14, 2014 – In simpler times we were here and then gone. But recent cases have shown us there is a complicated grey area where the brain is dead but the …

Redefining Death: The Controversy Surrounding Brain Death …

pjb.mycpanel2.princeton.edu/…/redefining-death-the-controversy-surrou…

Nov 26, 2015 – A parallel can be drawn between this previously accepted definition and the redefinition of a loss of brain function as death given the fact that in …

the Jahi McMath case

Keep Jahi Mcmath on life support | Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/keepJahiMcmathonlifesupport/
Keep Jahi Mcmath on life support. 54501 likes · 106 talking about this. A young girl from Oakland California fighting for her life, after undergoing…

Jahi McMath case – Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahi_McMath_case

The Jahi McMath case centers on a teenaged girl who was declared brain dead in California following surgery in 2013, when she was 13, and the bioethical …

Court‎: ‎United States District Court for the …
Prior action(s)‎: ‎Alameda County Case N…
Citation(s)‎: ‎Docket report

Jahi McMath, pronounced dead years ago, is ‘healthy,’ new photo claims

www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation…/jahi–mcmath…/82082798/
Mar 21, 2016 – 13-year-old Jahi McMath has been released to the custody of her mother after nearly a month in an Oakland hospital. She was pronounced …

Why a family fights over their ‘healthy and beautiful’ daughter, legally …

https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/life-support-debate-stirred-by-photo-of…

Mar 22, 2016 – Jahi McMath has been brain dead since 2013, but her family has fought to keep her on life support, maintaining that she’s merely “asleep” as …

Photo of teenager Jahi McMath, brain dead more than two years …

www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article67403207.html

Mar 21, 2016 – The family of 15-year-old Jahi McMath released a photo of her last week. Jahi was declared brain dead more than two years ago after a surgery …

They Said She Was Brain Dead, Now Jahi McMath is Breathing on …

www.lifenews.com/…/they-said-she-was-brain-dead-now-jahi–mcmath-is…
Oct 10, 2016 – Readers may recall Jahi McMath–the teenager declared brain dead in California. Her family–assisted by the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope …

They Said She Was Brain Dead, Now Court Says Jahi McMath’s …

www.lifenews.com/…/they-said-she-was-brain-dead-now-a-court-is-jahi-…
Aug 24, 2016 – This one is on me. Until a reader emailed me a link today, I did not know that the family of Jahi McMath cleared an important hurdle last month …

Citing signs of brain activity, family of girl sues to void death certificate …

www.nj.com/…/family_of_brain_dead_girl_sue_to_change_death_cert.h…
Jan 11, 2016 – Jahi McMath has been kept in New Jersey since 2014 because the state has a religious exemption for those who object to allowing ‘brain …

Jahi McMath’s family posts new photo of brain-dead teen: ‘As healthy …

www.sfgate.com/…/Jahi–McMath-photo-brain-dead-Facebook-6925986….
Mar 21, 2016 – The mother of an Oakland teen who doctors declared brain-dead more than two years ago is still insisting that her daughter is alive and well, …

Jahi McMath – The Huffington Post

www.huffingtonpost.com/news/jahi–mcmath/

The case of Jahi McMath, the 13-year-old girl declared brain dead at Children’s Hospital Oakland on Dec. 12, is but the most recent example of a 40-year-old …

public vs private funding of embryonic chimera stem cell research

NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Part-Human, Part – NPR

www.npr.org/…/nih-plans-to-lift-ban-on-research-funds-for-part-human-…
Aug 4, 2016 – The National Institutes of Health is proposing a new policy to permit scientists to get federal money to make embryos, known as chimeras, …

Next steps on research using animal embryos containing human cells

osp.od.nih.gov/…/next-steps-research-using-animal-embryos-containing-…
Aug 4, 2016 – Today, NIH has published in the Federal Register and the NIH … Proposed Scope of Chimera Research Considered by new NIH Steering Committee ….. allowing the NIH to lift the ban on research funds for the creation of …

N.I.H. May Fund Human-Animal Stem Cell Research – The New York …

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/health/stem-cell-research-ban.html

Aug 4, 2016 – The agency had banned funding for these kinds of experiments last … The N.I.H., which would be a major source of federal funds for this type of work, … human-animal chimeras, a term derived from mythological creatures that …

NIH moves to lift moratorium on animal-human chimera research …

www.sciencemag.org/…/nih-moves-lift-moratorium-animal-human-chim…
Aug 4, 2016 – NIH moves to lift moratorium on animal-human chimera research … Although NIH wasn’t yet funding such research, the pause put on hold future federal support for studies by … And the agency wants to extend a current ban on breeding chimeric animals that might carry …. Of course it’s money and tradition,

Human-animal chimeras: Stanford scientists condemn funding ban …

www.mercurynews.com/…/human-animal-chimeras-stanford-scientists-c…
Nov 5, 2015 – But NIH has a much bigger pot of money for biomedical research. The federal funding ban could influence the scope of work by Stanford’s …

NIH considers dropping ban on human-animal ‘chimeras’ – Daily Kos

www.dailykos.com/…/-NIH-considers-dropping-ban-on-human-animal-c…
Aug 5, 2016 – The National Institutes of Health is proposing a new policy to permit scientists to get federal money to make embryos, known as chimeras, …

NIH may lift ban on funds to create human-animal embryos – CBS News

www.cbsnews.com/…/nih-funding-human-animal-embryos-chimera-rese…
Aug 4, 2016 – The NIH may lift a ban on funding for research using human stem cells in lab animals. … creating a hybrid human-animal organism known as a chimera. Last year the federal government placed a funding ban on research …

US Government to give go-ahead to controversial chimera … – Daily Mail

www.dailymail.co.uk/…/US-Government-gives-ahead-controversial-chimer…

Aug 4, 2016 – … policy to permit scientists to get federal money to make the chimeras under … NIH Plans To Lift Ban On Research Funds For Part-Human, …

U.S. Government To Lift Ban On Part-Human, Part-Animal Embryos …

www.zerohedge.com/…/us-government-lift-ban-part-human-part-animal…
Aug 4, 2016 – U.S. Government To Lift Ban On Part-Human, Part-Animal Embryos … federal money to make embryos, known as chimeras, under certain carefully monitored … The NIH imposed a moratorium on funding these experiments in …

Get the Public Involved in Chimera Research at NIH | Bioethics.net

www.bioethics.net/…/get-the-public-involved-in-chimera-research-at-nih…

Aug 15, 2016 – The funding ban did not make chimera creation illegal; it meant that no federal funds could go to research involving chimeras. Despite the NIH …

Could Chimeras give us human brains in pig skulls, without the physical muscle structure to talk?Get the brain scanners for paralyzed “vegetative/brain dead” people on them!!

Locked-in patients tell doctors they are ‘happy’ after computer reads thoughts 

Insanity of all this foreseen 120 years ago:

Full text of H.G. Well’s 1896 novel “Island of Dr. Moreau”

(Wikipedia summary of “Island of Dr. Moreau”)

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