WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Making human-animal embryos for scientific experiments should be allowed because of the benefits to science and medicine, British experts said in a report released for Sunday.
Such embryos should never, however, be implanted into either a woman or an animal, said the Academy of Medical Sciences.
The combinations would include animal eggs and the nucleus, containing the genetic material, of a human being, or human embryos that carry the genetic material of an animal, the independent advisory body said.
A cloning technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer, or SCNT for short, involves removing the nucleus from an egg cell and replacing it with the nucleus of a cell from the animal to be cloned -- perhaps a skin cell, for instance.
Scientists have tried this using, for example, an egg cell from a cow and a human nucleus.
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor Reuters - Sunday, June 17 01:13 am
Came across this article on the forums and personally the thought of it really manifesting scared me a little. It also reminded me of this series i was reading: Fire Candy.
Humans still dont know enough about our genetic code and yet they want to try these ? Just because it solves one problem doesnt mean that it is justified. The ill-effects and drawbacks would be horrid. And even if they say it's for research, after the fusing of genes, we're still not the same. Whatever research we might get out of it would not be accurate.
Also, as one of the forumers mentioned, what for ? Chimera soldiers ? If so, what difference is there from the Middle Ages where discrimination ran rampant and slaves were all around ?
Really now, just what sort of world are they out to create ? One which brings us a step forth and two backwards ? A quote from Einstein rounds up all i have to say about the issue: It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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