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remir
From a detached point of view, we could say that these ethical concerns are for the people of today. What about 50 years from now? 100 years? 200?
dtx1
> Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
_carbyau_
It was sheer elegance in it's simplicity.
Krollifi
If you are your brain then embryos aren’t people.
guram11
yes and right now people are dying like flies, eventually ethic will follow
Krollifi
and intelligence declined when the Bible was written
spacemanmatt
Raising an animal for organ harvest seems somehow worse than raising one for food. Gonna have to think on that one, myself.
breakingcups
I don't know, I'm conflicted myself. Food can be substituted with vegetables, organs can not.
copenocoiner
What a misleading snake of an article.

The study wasn't some mad scientist 'lets splice the species and see what happens' or 'we'll grow hybrids for organ farming'.

It was studying the signalling mechanisms between cells of different species. They used embryos because simply injecting foreign stem cells into a matured animal does not work.