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**U5pz6B71** · 10-04-2007, 06:44 AM

My wife is a researcher in molecular cardiology, and as such needs to harvest heart cells from rats so she can do whichever tests or experiments she runs. She also loves animals, so she always feels trepidation when she needs to run a new experiment. If there were another, ethical, way to harvest the cells she needs, she'd do it in a heartbeat (no pun intended).

I have mixed feelings on the issue. Frogs with translucent skin is a far cry, imho, from the controversy surrounding stem cells or the like. But, I do think that genetics aren't something to go playing around with. Will it ever get to a point where we can select our children's eye and hair colour? It probably could, but I don't think I'd want to see that day.

10-04-2007, 06:44 AM	#14
U5pz6B71 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 490 Senior Member	My wife is a researcher in molecular cardiology, and as such needs to harvest heart cells from rats so she can do whichever tests or experiments she runs. She also loves animals, so she always feels trepidation when she needs to run a new experiment. If there were another, ethical, way to harvest the cells she needs, she'd do it in a heartbeat (no pun intended). I have mixed feelings on the issue. Frogs with translucent skin is a far cry, imho, from the controversy surrounding stem cells or the like. But, I do think that genetics aren't something to go playing around with. Will it ever get to a point where we can select our children's eye and hair colour? It probably could, but I don't think I'd want to see that day.
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