Debate rages over animal-human chimeras
August 14, 2006 | Source: NewScientist.com news service
In its August 8 report, the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics advocates banning embryos containing human and animal genetic material and cloned embryos created by combining human cells with cow or rabbit oocytes.
Ian Wilmut of the University of Edinburgh, creator of Dolly the cloned sheep, wants to attempt this to study motor neuron disease.