MAD SCIENCE: ‘GENETICALLY MODIFIED MICRO HUMANS’ TO BE ‘FARMED’ FOR DRUG TESTING BY 2017

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h5 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Developers of artificial micro-humans, or ‘mini GM humans,’ are hoping to release their technology on the market by 2017.</span></h5> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No this isn’t a sci-fi joke. Scientists are developing artificial humans in the same vein as GM plants with the hope that these creations will replace the need for using animals in laboratory testing.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artificial humans will be ‘farmed’ with interacting organs that can be used in drug tests, speeding up the process of FDA and other government regulatory approvals, and supposedly without damaging rats or other animals currently used in laboratories. The GM humans will contain smartphone-sized microchips that will be programmed to <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Artificial-micro-humans-to-replace-animals-in-lab-tests/articleshow/41394636.cms" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">replicate up to 10 major human organs</a>.</span></div> <script type="text/javascript"> clicksor_enable_adhere = false; clicksor_default_url = ''; clicksor_banner_border = '#99CC33'; clicksor_banner_ad_bg = '#FFFFFF'; clicksor_banner_link_color = '#000000'; clicksor_banner_text_color = '#666666'; clicksor_layer_border_color = ''; clicksor_layer_ad_bg = ''; clicksor_layer_ad_link_color = ''; clicksor_layer_ad_text_color = ''; clicksor_text_link_bg = ''; clicksor_text_link_color = ''; clicksor_enable_text_link = false; clicksor_banner_text_banner = false; clicksor_banner_image_banner = true; clicksor_enable_layer_pop = false; clicksor_enable_pop = false; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://a.horsered.com/show.php?nid=1&pid=326514&adtype=9&sid=555748"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ads.qadserve.com/t?id=a9d19797-a2f4-4278-bad3-1729dd785474&size=300x250"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> ( function() { if (window.CHITIKA === undefined) { window.CHITIKA = { 'units' : [] }; }; var unit = {"calltype":"async[2]","publisher":"milevski21","width":300,"height":250,"sid":"Chitika Default"}; var placement_id = window.CHITIKA.units.length; window.CHITIKA.units.push(unit); document.write('<div id="chitikaAdBlock-' + placement_id + '"></div>'); }()); </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//cdn.chitika.net/getads.js" async></script> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each GM human will be tiny – roughly the size of a microchip itself, simulating the response of humans to substances inhaled, absorbed in the blood, or exposed to in the intestinal tract.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Early versions comprising an artificial kidney, heart, lung or gut are already being used by the cosmetic industry and to observe the use of chemical drugs on non-GMO humans.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Times of India</em> reported that researchers said this could replace up to 90 million animals each year in labs. Uwe Marx, a tissue engineer from Technische Universitat Berlin and founder of TissUse, a firm developing the technology said:</span></div> <blockquote style="border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 5px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: none !important; line-height: 1.25;"> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“If our system is approved by the regulators, then it will close down most of the animal-testing laboratories worldwide.”</span></em></div> </blockquote>  <img alt="Mad Science: ‘Genetically Modified Micro Humans’ to be ‘Farmed’ for Drug Testing by 2017" src="http://hw.infowars.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/synthetic-humans-2050.jpg"><br> </div>

MAD SCIENCE: ‘GENETICALLY MODIFIED MICRO HUMANS’ TO BE ‘FARMED’ FOR DRUG TESTING BY 2017

Developers of artificial micro-humans, or ‘mini GM humans,’ are hoping to release their technology on the market by 2017. No this isn’t ...

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