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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/18/nembryo18.xml
wonder where this will go.

I personally think that its wrong to
 say an embryo can grow for fourteen days and then they have to just kill it off.

it is at the very least proof of concept that a human animal hybrid is *entirely* possible.

A human animal hybrid is not possible. The plumbing is essentially the same in all mammals (with few exceptions like Two(?)-Toed tree sloths, with their doubled genitalia) the genetics are incompatible.

We do not share the same number of chromosomes with any other species. That is what makes them species, instead of separate breeds.

The only way to make a human animal hybrid would be to splice certain genes from an animal into a human. THEN you could have very hairy children with horns. Or you could wind up with a bunch of dead babies. Genetics is not cut and dry folks.

>>7 That is full of win. I'm going to cut and paste that into notepad and keep it around for every time some overhopeful furry cuts and pastes a link going "Omgwtf, now we can be real furries!" or some furry who claims to know a doctor specialzing in gene splicing.

By the time humans know enough to do such things, everyone who is currently in the furry fandom will be dead and those who might be able to fiddle around with their child's DNA will run the risk of creating a new race of outcasts. I think even the biggest lifestyling furry would think twice on damming their child to a early death or a lifestyle filled with scorn.

Furry robots are more possable, but I could count on one hand the amount of furries who could pay for what are little more then limited sex toys, ATM.

10>>

calm down, besides, online anonymous threats are sort of illegal.

WooooTT its....  just kidding.

No, even transfering your brain into a custom android body would be more likely to happen than actually change the biological body your born within.
Live with it, its the only one you will have in this life, but if you believe in some sort of afterlife you still can keep your hopes for then.^^

>>14

 Well put.

Although it does bring to mind all the stuff like the rats with ears on there backs and stuff, y'know? While unrelated, all the science crap like this merges together and normal people think more stuff is possible than it is.

For example when people think of nuclear waste they think of glowing gunk, they think of bodies in tubes for cloning, and star trek like warp drives for space travel.

People just get misinformed and come up with crazy ideas, i.e furry thinking he can have teh hawt fox cawk. Shame really.

one link showing transgene between species with visable effects.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2001/01/18/glow.2.t.php
*sega voice* ---welcome to the next level---

>>16

That Jellyfish/Firefly glow green  gene is the _only_ gene that scientists have figured out how to splice into different species. Hence why there are worms, mice, moneys, sheep and every godawful animal that glows green now.


It's not exactly an easy process to get the DNA from one species to accept DNA from another.

As time progresses, I bet computer models of DNA structures can be created to simulate how a creature would turn out from a set of DNA.  Including the weaknesses to various illnessess and to physical trauma.  Computers and consoles across the world are already doing simulations of folding protiens.  Whatever that means, it's research toward stopping and or preventing cancer. http://www.fragland.net/news.php?id=16227

I think it would be too late to try to change OUR appearance in the ordinary sense.  Even if our dna was made to look like something else by dna theraphy, I doubt the main structures of the body would change by itself.  Minor things like hair and skin color would likely change.  However, I imagine that the idea of growing bodyparts in a lab would work, since it would comply to our new dna, the attached portions would not be rejected by the body.

This would be drastic measures, but not as extreme as the brain moved to a android (robot that looks like an organic creature) body.  Not that this is a bad idea, I'm just trying to add another posibility.

>>15

I've love to have hawt fox cawk :)

(Though I'm entirely aware such a thing is not in the cards.)

Which brings up another point. Genetic stuff.. does it only work on embryos and non-developed life? Would it even be possible for someone who's already developed into a human to change? If not, then whats the point? Would a furry couple really be willing to alter appearance-type genes of an unborn baby?

It's not like it would be the thing, "Aww how cute! He has your tail!"

>>23 The idea of couples modifying their child's DNA just because they think it would be 'cute' to give him animal parts is the reason I hope the means to do so never come about, because insane furrys would rush to do it, never thinking of what damage they would do to their child's life.

>>26

Obviously doesn't understand. That's wishful thinking Steve, not the realms of "is it possible to" that we're thinking here. Said child would be born furry as they had their DNA altered by their parents. That's the whole point.

If some technology was developed to change you mid life, it would be a bitch. If you're British and saw tHis weekend's Doctor Who, he re-writes each cell in his body to become human to evade capture. Something like this may be possible in the far future, but would have sever implications of power and physical pain I guess.

You know the best way to prevent scorn and abuse of a furry child? Make lots of furry children. As for which parents would want it done, well, who said anything about asking permission? Create a plague, a wave of change spreading across the face of the planet. But then, I'm just like that.

Viral engineering has already been attempted. The idea was to use an engineered strain of virus to replace a harmful/damaged portion of DNA from the brain cells of the patient. The trials failed, resulting in disease and death; we just don't have a sufficiently thorough understanding of the processes involved yet. I say give it another decade or two.

Speaking of decades, I'm dissapointed about how pesimistic some people are. "Never within our lifetimes?" Some of you must be planning to die young. With the rate of technological advancement as it is today, it is entirely plausible that some of us won't die, period (barring accidents, murder, etc).

Don't be so quick to give up hope.