Making human-animal embryos for scientific experiments should be allowed?
Washington (reuters) - making human-animal embryos for scientific experiments should be allowed because of the benefits to science and medicine, british experts said in a report released for sunday.(advertisement) such embryos should never, however, be implanted into either a woman or an animal, said the academy of medical sciences.the combinations would include animal eggs and the nucleus, containing the genetic material, of a human being, or human embryos that carry the genetic material of an animal, the independent advisory body said.a cloning technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer, or scnt for short, involves removing the nucleus from an egg cell and replacing it with the nucleus of a cell from the animal to be cloned -- perhaps a skin cell, for instance.to read more visit: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070617/thl-uk-stemcells-chimeras-8004a53.htmlquestion: what is your opinion on this matter_ are you for or against and why?
