Scientists In The UK Can Now Breed Manimals

Posted on 20. May, 2008 by Ms. Nickels in Blog, Environment, How's Business, Internet, Lifestyle, Science, Technology

Scientists in the UK can now legally combine human and animal embryos. Manimals. Why? For the sake of finding cures for diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
From Times Online:
The Minister admitted that the Bill was not a promise that cures for diseases could be found. “It is an aspiration that it may.”
The main kinds of admixed embryo permitted by the Bill are “cytoplasmic hybrids” or “cybrids”, which are made by moving a human nucleus into an empty animal egg. These are genetically 99.9 per cent human. As well as true hybrids, [...]