First animal-human embryo trials

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Experiments to create Britain’s first embryos that merge human and animal material will begin within months after a Government watchdog today approved two research teams to carry out the controversial work.

Scientists at King’s College London and the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne will now inject human DNA into empty eggs from cows, to create embryos known as cytoplasmic hybrids that are 99.9 per cent human in genetic terms....

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3204128.ece
 
Awesome. Someday soon we will be able to truly put the "panda" in Pandaemoni.

I will be interested in seeing what traits these hybrids can be given, and what their survival rate will be. This is a step beyond simple cloning. This greatly expands the ability to reengineer ourselves in the nearer term. constructing a gene that will make a human stronger, or faster or whatever, will take a long time...pulling the appropriate, preexisting, genes from animals should be at least somewhat easier.
 
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