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Humanimals

“When Stanford’s ethicists first heard the proposal for humanized mouse brains, they were grossed out. But after thinking it over, they tentatively endorsed the idea and decided that it might not be bad to endow mice with ’some aspects of human consciousness or some human cognitive abilities.’ “

From an interesting Slate article on transgenic animals, here.


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