O'Donnell In 2007: Scientists Have Created Mice With Human Brains!

[miss_padfoot]

Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell has previously sounded the alarm against cloning and stem-cell research -- and what she's described as the current terror of human-mouse hybridsWe previously noted that O'Donnell had attacked her primary opponent, Congressman Mike Castle, based on his support for stem-cell research. But it

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[so_bambiesque]

[joy_mora]

[erunamiryene]

This broad is FUCKING CRAZY.

[mortichro]

i hope they'll make 2.. one will go "NARF" the other will go "same thing every night"

[fuzzy_ninja]

this.

[mollywobbles867]

[4eyedblonde]

ilu for this comment

[ceilidh_ann]

I think Olbermann and Maddow put it best when they said this woman was a goldmine!

*hums Pinky and the Brain theme*

[gmth]

ROFL, I love the fact that it doesn't even seem to occur to her that a human brain is, I don't know, 20 times larger (?) than a mouse. How exactly is that going to work? Is she suggesting scientists have created a miniature-sized human brain? What a weirdo.

[thelilyqueen]

Yeah, her presentation of the research is highly, highly inaccurate. She's not wrong though that scientists have been doing human-into-mouse transplants for various purposes - a main one being that such mice could be a better bridge from animal to human research in drug development and such, as the human cells will still basically act like human cells (eg. metabolize a drug much as they would still n a human) while keeping the advantages of using mice - they breed and mature fast, they're easy to care for and won't lie about whether they actually took the study medication, and using them sidesteps certain ethical and practical issues in human testing.

[keeperofthekeys]

Chimeric and humanized mice FTW!