Human Cow Embryo's?

[Ball Lightning]

You could make a creature which is resistent to things, say fire. And it can go and save people in a fire. There are many other uses for them.

 

[skadistic]

You could make a creature which is resistent to things, say fire. And it can go and save people in a fire. There are many other uses for them.

Not sure if thats doable but the main carachter form 'Water World" used for deep sea resuce or something along those lines makes more sence. If you can come up with a viable hybrid that is of merit I'm behind you 100%. ( behind in case it goes crazy so I can use you as cannon fodder to aid my escape) I see no reason why man should not be able to play "god" we did invent him to begin with.

 

[El_Machinae]

If we make bunnybears, we could reshoot parts of the Quest for the Holy Grail (with an M rating) for those who didn't get the joke about the rabbit.

Interesting.

Since most carbon based organisms share a vast majority of genetics (more so 'tween animals and animals then plants and animals) at some point you get down to basics and it doesn't matter where the particular genetics come from? The closer geneticly you get like say a baboon and human the less divergence you get in genetic code hence a better chance for success? Am I thinking to far down the viability line since stem cells are preaty much undefined cells that can be teased to become whatever?

Well, a stem cell can be teased to become whatever cell the DNA is for. A human stem cell can become a human brain cell, but a rodent stem cell would remain a rodent brain cell.

However, (since we are actually so similar) you can put human brain cells into damaged regions of a rat's brain, and the human brain cells will heal into the rat brain and help restore function. Even though the cells are decently different, genetically, they're similar enough to do each other's job.

But, with your baboon example (but I'll use chimp, though), they are very similar genetically - amazingly so. I have a feeling that a chimp embryo could be encouraged to become very similar to a human being, if it was nurtured the right way in the womb. Especially if we were able to tweak a couple places in the DNA.

I remember an article which looked at the genes active in the human brain, and how apes didn't have those genes active, but seemed to have the genes in their DNA.

I might be answering the wrong question, though. If you're asking if a baboon egg might be better to make these cells (for use in humans) than a cow ... I would guess yes.

 

[Kozmos]

Think 'Dark Angle'. Super hot females that have pussycat dna.

Breed me another Jessica Alba! I dont care if she will have cow like DNA.

 

[Perfection]

I don't mind the research as proposed. Getting into higher level hybrids certainly entails greater ethical deliberation, but I see no reason why research following the proposed methodology should be banned.