British researchers create human-animal hybrid embryos

human_animal_hybrid.jpgEmbryos 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.

Source: timesonline.co.uk

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