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FrankRep
04-01-2008, 06:24 PM
We have created human-animal embryos already, say British team

Times Online UK
April 2, 2008

Embryos containing human and animal material have been created in Britain for the first time, a month before the House of Commons votes on new laws to regulate the research.

A team at Newcastle University announced yesterday that it had successfully generated “admixed embryos” by adding human DNA to empty cow eggs in the first experiment of its kind in Britain.

The Commons is to debate the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill next month. MPs have been promised a free vote on clauses in the legislation that would permit admixed embryos. But their creation is already allowed, subject to the granting of a licence from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA).
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Corydoras
04-01-2008, 06:30 PM
I guess they did it on the principle that it's easier to act now and ask forgiveness later.


One very little known fact from way back when (in the era when pregnancy tests involved injecting a female rabbit with the woman patient's urine and then killing it and examining its ovaries) is that male fertility was determined by putting the man's sperm in a dish with hamster eggs AND SEEING IF THE HUMAN SPERM COULD ENTER THE HAMSTER EGGS.

The hamster eggs would not develop, but this has an ick factor at least as high as killing rabbits to find out if a woman is pregnant.