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http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0709/Mermaids_Centaurs_and_Sam_Brownback.html?showall

http://senatorsambrownback.blogspot.com/2009/07/brownback-landrieu-introduce-human.html

Mermaids, Centaurs and Sam Brownback

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) — an ardent anti-abortion activist — is worried that the Obama administration's loosening of restrictions on stem cell research will result in the creation of a new race of bio-engineered "human-animal" hybrid freaks.
Or beautiful mermaids.
The bill — modeled on an inexplicably overlooked effort by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal — would ban the creation of "part-human, part-animal creatures, which are created in laboratories, and blur the line between species."
The legislation, he says, "is limited in scope" and wouldn't limit the use of some animal parts for human use, including porcine pig valves.
Despite giving no concrete examples of what such hybrids would look like (i.e. Spider-Man), he's got 20 co-sponsors including one Dem, Mary Landrieu (D-La.).
"As our nation suffers through the greatest economic decline in a generation and our country's brightest minds are working tirelessly to reverse course, what does Sen. Brownback propose? Banning mermaids," quipped Chris Harris of Media Matters.
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ive always wondered if that was even possible. i remember a teacher telling me it was impossible to mix human and animal genes but if thats the case how come people can use animal parts to live? maybe we'll get splicers like in batman beyond.
 
This is just like XMen 2, except with less Halle Berry and more CatMan.

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[quote name='lokizz']ive always wondered if that was even possible. i remember a teacher telling me it was impossible to mix human and animal genes but if thats the case how come people can use animal parts to live? maybe we'll get splicers like in batman beyond.[/QUOTE]

At the risk of being taken seriously elsewhere, I'll try to answer this.

Human and other animal genes don't mix because their reproductive cells don't match. Horse sperm won't activate the right receptors on a human egg to initiate fertilization, the size and number of chromosomes don't match between most species, etc.

Now ...

If you have isolated and sequenced a specific animal protein you wish to have human cells producing, you can create or excise the DNA or RNA sequence responsible for the protein and insert them into a delivery vector such as a plasmid (reality) or virus (borderline scifi).

If you use DNA, your delivery vector has to penetrate the nucleus because DNA polymerase may not be found in the "body" of a eukaryotic cell.

If you use RNA, you have to be careful because human skin has RNAses on it and you'll need something like reverse transcriptase to create new DNA.
 
Brownback needs to read Orxy and Crake. He'll shit his pants.

[quote name='mykevermin']Y'all are just NOW coming to the conclusion that Brownback is a nutjob, hyper-reacting, fear mongering dipshit Republican?[/QUOTE]


You should've warned "us".
 
This is bullshit start to finish. It takes a fairly serious subject and tries to make it into something silly by removing the context and throwing nonsense from an extremely partisan source into it.

Controls over transgenic research is not a laughing matter to those in the field. There are a lot of risk factors (such as creating a more rapid communicable disease crossover host than exists in nature) and ethical concerns. Plenty of people generally of a left wing bent, such as PETA, are very concerned with this as well for differing reasons. This isn't about skiffy fantasies of making mermaid or some Isle of Dr. Moreau scenario. This is real life, meaning it is at the same time far more important and vastly more boring than the stuff of bad TV.

The fact that the article quotes somebody from Media Matters, a hyper-partisan organization, makes it plain that this article is a smear job attempt, not seeking any genuine discussion but rather just trying to make a targeted politician look bad before a targeted audience.
 
[quote name='epobirs']This is bullshit start to finish. It takes a fairly serious subject and tries to make it into something silly by removing the context and throwing nonsense from an extremely partisan source into it.

Controls over transgenic research is not a laughing matter to those in the field. There are a lot of risk factors (such as creating a more rapid communicable disease crossover host than exists in nature) and ethical concerns. Plenty of people generally of a left wing bent, such as PETA, are very concerned with this as well for differing reasons. This isn't about skiffy fantasies of making mermaid or some Isle of Dr. Moreau scenario. This is real life, meaning it is at the same time far more important and vastly more boring than the stuff of bad TV.

The fact that the article quotes somebody from Media Matters, a hyper-partisan organization, makes it plain that this article is a smear job attempt, not seeking any genuine discussion but rather just trying to make a targeted politician look bad before a targeted audience.[/QUOTE]

Dude, the second link goes directly to Brownback's OWN website. :roll:

He does a pretty good job of smearing himself and looking like an idiot, he didn't need anyone from Media Matters to do it for him.

Feel free to keep defending this right wing nutjob (he has a long history as one), and for hyper partisan B.S. you'll have to only look as far as your own mirror.
 
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