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  • Hybrid embryos fail to live up to stem-cell hopes

    02/03/2009 10:04:15 AM PST · by neverdem · 12 replies · 896+ views
    Nature News ^ | 3 February 2009 | Heidi Ledford
    Strategy for creating pluripotent cells called into question.The creation of human?animal hybrid embryos ? proposed as a way to generate embryonic stem cells without relying on scarce human eggs ? has met with legislative hurdles and public outcry. But a paper published this week suggests that the approach has another, more fundamental problem: it may simply not work. Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology, a stem-cell company based in Los Angeles, California, and his colleagues show that in their labs, early-stage human?cow, human?mouse and human?rabbit hybrid embryos fail to grow beyond 16 cells (Y. Chung et al. Cloning Stem Cells...
  • Hybrid Embryos Must be Given Right to Life Say UK Catholic Bishops

    06/26/2007 9:35:39 PM PDT · by monomaniac · 10 replies · 471+ views
    LifeSiteNews.com ^ | Tuesday June 26, 2007 | Hilary White
    LONDON, June 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In April, the British government tabled draft legislation that proposes to allow experiments to create human/animal hybrids. Now the Catholic bishops of England and Wales have responded by saying that any embryos created by combining human and animal DNA are human beings with full human rights, including the right to natural birth. The bishops have made a submission to the parliamentary committee examining the proposed legislation and have said that the genetic mothers of these “chimeras” should be able to raise them. There are many ways of creating embryos derived from a combination of...