Some of Britain's top scientists are backing medical research using human-animal embryos. A report by the Academy of Medical Sciences says it is vital in the fight against a range of diseases, including cancer. The recommendation comes a month after the Government published a draft bill sweeping away previous plans to ban the use of such embryos. The Human Tissue and Embryos Bill would allow scientists, in principle, to produce "cytoplasmic" hybrid embryos that are 99.9% human and 0.1% animal. The Bill goes further and permits human embryos to be altered by the introduction of animal DNA. It also allows human-animal chimeras - human embryos that have been physically mixed with one or more animal cells. (Sky News)
There is not supposed to be much difference in the DNA of all living creatures anyway ... a few strands with significant & distinctive coding that makes us human beings.
