Friday, December 17th, 2010
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Humans To Begin Resembling Pigs On A Cellular Level

"The world's first xenotransplantation treatment—where animal cells are transplanted into humans—has been approved for sale in Russia. The treatment, developed by Living Cell Technologies in New Zealand, is for type 1 diabetes. It consists of insulin-producing pig cells coated in seaweed."
As if we weren't eating ourselves into what's pretty obviously our destined future state already, we've now begun injecting ourselves with the actual living cells of pigs. We are literally turning ourselves into pigs! (Pigs coated with seaweed! Double yuck!) Space, here we come.

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boyofdestiny (#1,243)

The Awl Art Department, FTW

BadUncle (#153)

Time to start moisturizing with cloves and honey.

kpants (#719)

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Dave Bry (#422)

Yes! Orwell totally saw this coming.

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