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Article: Scientists create Britain's first hybrid embryos
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 2, 2008
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Scientists confirmed last night that they have created human-
animal "hybrid" embryos for the first time in Britain in an effort
to develop new stem-cell treatments for disorders such as
Parkinson's disease, stroke and diabetes.
The scientists merged human genetic material with cow egg cells
that had most of their own genetic material removed. The resulting
hybrid embryos were genetically 99.9 per cent human and 0.1 per cent
cow.
The research is still preliminary and has not yet been verified
in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, but scientists at Newcastle
University insisted the results were valid, the hybrid embryos
surviving for three days in the test tube.
Ultimately the researchers ...