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Article: Scientists create UK's first hybrid embryos
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- The Hindustan Times
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- April 2, 2008
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London, April 2 -- Researchers at Newcastle University have announced the successful creation of part-human, part-animal hybrid embryos for the first time in the UK.
The novel discovery is expected to create a furore, as the breakthrough comes just a month before MPs are to debate the future of such research, which has been condemned by the Catholic Church as "monstrous"
However, Dr Lyle Armstrong and colleagues claim it to be a part of basic research on cloning and not an attempt to create a hybrid animal, which is illegal.
The hybrids were created by injecting DNA derived from human embryo cells into eggs taken from ...