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As science and the accompanying political debate on stem cell research, cloning, and “animal-human embryo” research moves forward, expect things to just get weirder and weirder.
Case in point from a Reuters story today: Hybrid animal-human embryos created for medical research should be viewed as human and permitted to develop into children, Roman Catholic bishops have urged the British parliament.
Take that to the water cooler.
See also this recent, semi-related story: Dolly creator Ian Wilmut suggests injecting human DNA into animal egg cells as a workaround to ethical and legal roadblocks. Want more? Lab Freaks, Interspecies Cloning, and the always combustible idea of Human Cloning.
