New GMO Experiment: Part-Human Part-Animal Embryos in Development

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Pablo Ross of the University of California, Davis inserts human stem cells into a pig embryo as part of experiments to create chimeric embryos. Photo by Rob Stein/NPR

NPR – Southern California Public Radio

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A handful of scientists around the United States are trying to do something that some people find disturbing: make embryos that are part human, part animal. The researchers hope these embryos, known as chimeras, could eventually help save the lives of people with a wide range of diseases.

But some scientists and bioethicists worry the creation of these interspecies embryos crosses …read more

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