"The government has overturned its proposed ban on the creation of human-animal embryos and now wants to allow them to be used to develop new treatments for incurable diseases such as Parkinson's

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"...a fascinating glimpse into how far some parents may go to ensure that their children stay in their world — by intentionally choosing malfunctioning genes that produce disabilities like deafne

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Headline of the day. "If they manage to pull off the feat, the human-bovine embryos would not be allowed to develop for more than a few days, the researchers say." Yeah, but they *would* say

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"The bill ... would relax rules on stem cell research and allow therapeutic cloning of embryos for medical research. The House of Representatives still needs to pass the bill before it becomes la

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"Should medical researchers be allowed to create human-animal hybrids to investigate disease?" No easy answer to this one, but I'd lean towards 'yes', myself.

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Hold your breath - a massive ethics-war is about to break loose in the media. Expect hand-flapping, wild-eyed transhumanist polemic, religion-based sophistry...and a whole lot of bullsh*t from both si

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