Sue Wu submitted, created time 9 months 1 week (www.telegraph.co.uk)

This is not a joke from April Fool's Day; it's real!
But it seems to come with some ethical problems.
Scientists at Newcastle University have created Britain’s first human-animal hybrid embryos for research by transferring the DNA from a human cell into a cow’s egg whose nucleus had been removed, it emerged on Tuesday night.

1 comment | Blog It | Email It | Keywords: nuclear transfer cell lines ethics bioethics somatic cell nuclear transfer ova hybrid embryos human embryos cows stem cell research hybrid animal-human embryos