Rise of the mice men

[Nostromo]

An article by Jeremy Rifkin in the Guardian

What happens when you cross a human and a mouse? Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke but, in fact, it's a serious experiment recently carried out by a team headed by a distinguished molecular biologist, Irving Weissman, at Stanford University.

Scientists injected human brain cells into mouse foetuses, creating a strain of mice that were approximately 1% human. Weissman is considering a follow-up that would produce mice whose brains are 100% human.

[St Leo]

It would have to be even larger to have a brain the size of a planet.

[Az]

@StLeo.

[Last Conformist]

When they say the brain would be 100% human, I assume they mean the tissues will be human-derived.

[Nostromo]

What are you talking about?

[Dinner]

More crap journalism from the Guardian who would have guessed?

[Nostromo]

First mice men, after that pig men.

[Seeker]

They should try it with dolphins. Can you imagine playing around with supra-intelligent dolphins?

Or maybe with baboons. A good baboon/pitbull terrier/human crossbreed like in 'Watchers'.

They're too many humans we need a good predator to keep us in check.

[Sava]

half-breeds!

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Seeker
They're too many humans we need a good predator to keep us in check.

I don't think an inter-species arms race is a very good idea. And I don't think that keeping a predator around would go down very well with certain people in power. We'd get a War On Chimerae or something, and things would horribly wrong.

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by nostromo
First mice men, after that pig men.

Ah yes, the new breed of police!

[Provost Harrison]

Well I'm half-man half-walrus

[The Emperor Fabulous]

Would their best laid plans go even more astray?

[Ben Kenobi]

Not the wisest decision to improve inter-species competition.

[Whaleboy]

Ah my childhood icons!