May 3, 2005
By Donna Anderson
Senior RNU News Reporter
The New York Times probably didn't know what it was doing when it joined forces with you-know-who in order to prepare the human race for three things: The return of the Nephilim, transgression of the Levitical Code, and justified "seeding" of animals with human DNA and visa versa for the endgame.
RNU.com – (Raiders News Update) - Yesterday, the New York Times ran the article: Chimeras on the Horizon, but Don't Expect Centaurs by Nicholas Wade.
A portion of the article read:
Common ground for ethical research on human embryonic stem cells may have been laid by the National Academy of Sciences in the well-received guidelines it proposed last week. But if research on human embryonic stem cells ever gets going, people will be hearing a lot more about chimeras, creatures composed of more than one kind of cell. The world of chimeras holds weirdnesses that may require some getting used to.
The original chimera, a tripartite medley of lion, goat and snake, was a mere monster, but mythology is populated with half-human chimeras - centaurs, sphinxes, werewolves, minotaurs and mermaids, and the gorgon Medusa. These creatures hold generally sinister powers, as if to advertise the pre-Darwinian notion that species are fixed and penalties are severe for transgressing the boundaries between them.
Biologists have been generating chimeras for years, though until now of a generally bland variety. If you mix the embryonic cells of a black mouse and a white mouse, you get a patchwork mouse, in which the cells from the two donors contribute to the coat and to tissues throughout the body. Cells can also be added at a later stage to specific organs; people who carry pig heart valves are, at least technically, chimeric.
The promise of embryonic stem cells is that since all the tissues of the body are derived from them, they are a kind of universal clay. If biologists succeed in learning how to shape the clay into specific organs, like pancreas glands, heart muscle or kidneys, physicians may be able to provide replacement parts on demand.
Developing these new organs, and testing them to the standards required by the Food and Drug Administration, will require growing human organs in animals.
Such creations - of pigs with human hearts, monkeys with human larynxes - are likely to be unsettling to many.
"I think people would be horrified," said Dr. William Hansen, an expert in mythology at Indiana University.
Chimeras grip the imagination because people are both fascinated and repulsed by the defiance of natural order. "They promote a sense of wonder and awe and for many of us that is an enjoyable feeling; they are a safe form of danger as in watching a scary movie," Dr. Hansen said.
From the biologists' point of view, animals made to grow human tissues do not really raise novel issues because they can be categorized as animals with added human parts. Biologists are more concerned about animals in which human cells have become seeded throughout the system.
"The mixing of species is something people do worry about and their fears need to be addressed," said Dr. Richard O. Hynes of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the co-chairman of the National Academy of Sciences committee that issued the research guidelines.
Foreseeing the need for chimeras if stem cell research gets near to therapy, Dr. Hynes's committee delved into the ethics of chimera manufacture, defining the two cases in which human-animal chimeras could raise awkward issues. One involves incorporating human cells into the germ line; the other is involves using a human brain, creating a human or half human mind imprisoned in an animal body.
In the case of human cells' invading the germ line, the chimeric animals might then carry human eggs and sperm, and in mating could therefore generate a fertilized human egg. Hardly anyone would desire to be conceived by a pair of mice. To forestall such discomforting possibilities, the committee ruled that chimeric animals should not be allowed mate.
Still, there may in the future be good reason to generate mice that produce human oocytes, as the unfertilized egg is called. Tissues made from embryonic stem cells are likely to be perceived as foreign by the patient's immune system. One way around this problem is to create the embryonic stem cells from a patient's own tissues, by transferring a nucleus from the patient's skin cell into a human oocyte whose own nucleus has been removed.
The rest of the NYT article is here.
We took the except above because three very important issues were raised by the article.
One: the title drew an unqualified conclusion:
Chimeras are on the horizon, but don't expect Centaurs.
Tom and Nita Horn's new book, The Ahriman Gate (though told through fictional accounting) includes ten years of transgenic (chimera) research, including exhaustive investigative interviews into the related sciences with actual hands-on researchers.
How much of the book's information into this field is fiction? We're not saying, but here's an except on the subject that includes segments of truth.
Secondly: the NYT article said:
These creatures hold generally sinister powers, as if to advertise the pre-Darwinian notion that species are fixed and penalties are severe for transgressing the boundaries between them.
Again, Tom and Nita's anticipated novel speaks to this issue.
Thirdly: the NYT made a frightening statement:
Biologists are more concerned about animals in which human cells have become seeded throughout the system.
Why would "seeding" animals with human DNA or visa versa be a Pandora's box, and is history about to repeat itself? Check out this excerpt from The Ahriman Gate. http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/excerpt3.htm
http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/begging.htm