The Food Corporations have  for long time advocated their genetically modified food products (GMOs)as safe, however science has taken pause at some of the immunological and potential neoplastic disease caused by them. But, today there may be a safe alternative for GMOs. A London, England institute is looking at 3D printing of food. In a time where food shortages, increased food prices and exposure of foods to toxins this may be a way to look at more seriously. Find more about this story on NPR(National Public Radio).

National Institutes of Health Permits Dr. Moreau's Chimera

The National Institutes of Health today announced that it will be utilizing new genetic engineering techniques that allow the splicing of animal DNA with human DNA! This area of research was always viewed as "hands off" since the experiments by Eugenicist such as Dr.  Josef Mengele in Nazi Germany. Yet, this hasn't stopped the funding of this project , The Chimera Project to proceed.

The NIH , stated that this will allow animals to develop human organs that can be later be harvested. Stem cells will be injected into lower life form animals and the tissue of organs can grow potentially in any organ to reproduce human organs.

This includes human brain cells growing in animals such as pigs and sheep for now. The NIH is leaving hands off to inject the stem cells in Simian species such as monkeys and great apes. However, the moral, ethical and philosophical issue that is burning is that if the neurological tissue develops in a sheep and takes on human emotions, feelings, or consciousness what makes that animal no longer an animal and now partially human or all human for that matter?

We are entering into a strange world of Dr Moreau who in a fictionalized movie spliced various species of animals with humans .

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Dr. Marcus Wells is a past Clinical Associate of the NIH where he served in the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute.