Is it real or is it the Onion?
Cloning Yields Human-Rabbit Hybrid Embryo Chinese scientists (natch) have succeeded for the first time in creating a human rabbit embryo. German cannibals will be especially happy, as they can have people and Hassenpfeffer at the same time. The Chinese
"team said it retrieved foreskin tissue from two 5-year-old boys and two men, and facial tissue from a 60-year-old woman, as a source of skin cells. They fused those cells with New Zealand rabbit eggs from which the vast majority of rabbit DNA had been removed. More than 400 of those new, fused entities grew into early embryos, and more than 100 survived to the blastocyst stage -- the point at which coveted stem cells begin to form.
Crazy, man, crazy. Of course, everyone expected the Chinese to create the dreaded Pandaman hybrid. This rabbit thing was probably intended to confuse and deceive us while they continue work on the pandaman. Or, combining the known reproductive prowess of the average chinese citizen with the rabbit will result in unstoppable hordes of rabbitman chinese armies.
Only time will tell.
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Better get to work on "Bald
Better get to work on "Bald eagle man", without the bald, of course.
No, you'll just be bald man.
No, you'll just be bald man.
*ducks*
Seriously-- speaking as an
Seriously-- speaking as an American, this is a problem. It's great that the Chinese are working on this. Someone should be. But, again as an American, I'd prefer that the US be the ones leading the charge into the uncertain future populated by man-panda hybrids. Science and innovation drove the US's rise to world prominence, and it could happen again to someone else.