NY Newsday: Animal-Human Hybrids
Nobody has yet filled any animal with enough human cells or genes to confer anything close to human traits, and nobody plans to do so (or if they do, it’s their secret). But the list of experiments that implant human cells into monkey, goats, rats, and other creatures is steadily growing, reports Newsday’s Paul Elias. Much of the work, he writes, overlaps “hot button” issues such as human cloning or creation of “human-animal hybrids.”
