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MAD SCIENCE: ‘GENETICALLY MODIFIED MICRO HUMANS’ TO BE ‘FARMED’ FOR DRUG TESTING BY 2017 (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)
Developers of artificial micro-humans, or ‘mini GM humans,’ are hoping to release their technology on the market by 2017. 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.
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 replicate up to 10 major human organs.
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- MAD SCIENCE: ‘GENETICALLY MODIFIED MICRO HUMANS’ TO BE ‘FARMED’ FOR DRUG TESTING BY 2017 - STANews, 2014-09-13, 10:55 (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

