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    What? there is research being done on hybrid now O.O!

    Green light for hybrid research
    Regulators in the UK have given scientists the green light to create human-animal embryos for research. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority granted permission after a consultation showed the public were "at ease" with the idea.
    Experts said it was vital for research into life-threatening diseases.
    Two centres, King's College London and Newcastle University, will now be able to begin their work under one-year research licences.
    Any other centres wishing to do similar work will have to apply to the HFEA for permission, which will make a decision on a case-b-case basis.
    Hybrids
    Scientists want to create hybrid embryos by merging human cells with animal eggs in a bid to extract stem cells. The embryos would then be destroyed within 14 days.
    The cells form the basic building blocks of the body and have the potential to become any tissue, making them essential for research.
    At the moment, scientists have to rely on human eggs left over from fertility treatment, but they are in short supply and are not always good quality.
    Critics say they are repulsed by the idea and there must be no creation of an animal-human hybrid.
    They say it is tampering with nature and is unethical.
    It is already illegal to implant human-animal embryos in the womb or bring them to term.
    Go-ahead
    Dr Stephen Minger and colleagues at King's College London want to create hybrids to study diseases known to have genetic causes - such as Alzheimer's disease, spinal muscular atrophy and Parkinson's disease.
    And Lyle Armstrong's team at Newcastle University are hoping to use the technique to help understand how stem cells develop into different tissues in the body.
    In the distant future this information may enable scientists to grow new tissues in the laboratory.
    Dr Armstrong said: "Now that we have the licence we can start work as soon as possible.
    "We have already done a lot of the work by transferring animal cells into cow eggs so we hope to make rapid progress."
    John Smeaton, national director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), said: "The HFEA decision represents a disastrous setback for human dignity in Britain.
    "The deliberate blurring of the boundaries between humans and other species is wrong and strikes at the heart of what makes us human."

    Story from BBC NEWS:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/h...th/7193820.stm
    Cant stand the 32 bit and above gaming.
    Gamers for the return of 2d sprite filled games!

  • #2
    "The deliberate blurring of the boundaries between humans and other species is wrong and strikes at the heart of what makes us human." It is wrong and it's what humans do. Pushing boundaries and creating new diseases that they can't cure is exactly "human nature".

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    • #3
      So...now we can finally make Man-Bat?
      I may be lazy, but I can...zzzZZZzzzZZZzzzZZZ...

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      • #4
        You know how humans are. As soon as we get a cure for the cold, we're going to go out and invent a better cold to catch...at least, that what I expect the medicine companies to do.
        This reality is mine. Go hallucinate your own.

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        • #5
          MORE hybrid research NOW IN ELECTRONICS!

          nVidia Introduces Hybrid GPU Technology


          By Matthew Murray

          For quite a while now, there have been two types of computer users: those use discrete graphics cards, and those for whom integrated video chipsets are enough. But with its announcement today, nVidia might just have united these two disparate factions. The use of new hybrid graphics technology for the PC unites the convenience and low-level energy consumption of integrated video with the power of discrete cards—and lets both do more together than they could alone.
          nVidia calls the technology Hybrid SLI, based on its Scalable Link Interface technology that in the past has allowed two or three graphics cards to function as one for improved performance. Hybrid SLI comprises two new technologies: HybridPower, which lets the user decide whether to render graphics from onboard graphics or a discrete video card (though nVidia hopes to implement smart switching in the future), and GeForce Boost, which combines the power of integrated and discrete video. Hybrid SLI will be available for both desktop and notebook PCs running Windows Vista (XP will not be supported).
          These capabilities, however, will not be fully available until nVidia's next generation of graphics cards debuts—they require hardware changes that will not be incorporated into most of the current 8000 series of cards. (The exceptions are the currently available 8500 GT and 8400 GS cards, which support GeForce Boost but not HybridPower.) nVidia expects the technologies to be available to users of AMD CPUs by the first quarter of 2008, and to users of Intel CPUs by the second quarter.
          Cant stand the 32 bit and above gaming.
          Gamers for the return of 2d sprite filled games!

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          • #6
            make it vista exclusive huh,microsoft must have paid them off!vista blows goat balls!
            Spoiler Alert! Click to view...

            THE BAD GUY!!!!!!

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            • #7
              Strange how it's mostly overblown gaming stuff that's going vista specific so far. Everything else, either has no vista support and runs on everything else, or it just runs on everything. Sad, but I guess eventually XP will be in the same class as 98se is now, and people will be might likely to go with something like OSX or Linux.

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