Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Chimera Project: Slippery Slope or Breakthrough?

Regulators in Britain have given the 'ok' in theory for researchers to go forth in creating human-animal hybrid embryos to search for cures for serious illnesses.

But here emerges the slippery slope that genetic manipulation of human DNA has opened to us as a species. Today it is research for cures of diseases like parkinson's, but what will it be tomorrow? It isn't hard to project what some might dream of doing because the possibilities may begin to exist.

Here is a link to today's news article: Human-Animal Hybrids