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Entries from blog.bioethics.net tagged with 'chimeras'
Genetic Karma
I don't really know what John Kass is talking about in his Chicago Tribune column: some scary combination of personal experience with featherless chickens that he put into strange positions, genetically engineered animals (that he has nothing to with) and non-existent chimeras such as "superchickens" that he's scared of, and... (read the rest)
The UK's debate over, well, almost everything
The UK has been involved in a rather intense political discussion about making changes to the country's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority bill. Stem cells, chimeras, cloning and more all fall under this law. Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced this week that there would be a "free" vote on the... (read the rest)
Art Caplan at MSNBC: Students' meningitis shots should be required
Art writes that Americans hate being told what to do, but we hate losing our kids more: Which is scarier to you - coming down with deadly bacterial meningitis or being required to get a vaccination against it? The disease itself should scare the living daylights out of you, especially... (read the rest)
UK approves human-animal embryos
After what it calls "a series of detailed deliberative sessions", Britain's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority gave the go ahead Wednesday for the creation of embryos that would contain both human and animal cells. Such research is banned in Canada and President Bush has called for it to be forbidden... (read the rest)
Do You Know the Mutton Man?
For many years a team of researchers led by Esmail Zanjani at the University of Nevada at Reno have been trying to grow ‘humanized sheep’. Their goal is to create sheep that have organs such as the liver that could be transplanted into humans without being rejected. To get xenograftable... (read the rest)
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