I’m worried about a new paper in the journal Cell that details the creation of a human-pig chimera. As a neuroscientist, I appreciate groundbreaking research at a purely scientific level and ...

Scientists in the U.S. could soon be allowed to create part-human, part-animal embryos in the laboratory, now that a nation-wide moratorium on chimera research is under official review. In biology, ...

The federal government may soon lift its ban on funding research that uses so-called human-animal chimeras. But what medical benefits could such research bring? Yesterday, the National Institutes of ...

Scientists at Queen Mary University of London and the University of Hong Kong have created a mouse with substituted genes from a single-celled organism known as a choanoflagellate. Scientists replaced ...

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Scientists may be a step closer to growing human organs in animals. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is considering lifting a moratorium that blocked funding for experimentation involving human ...

On Friday, watching pro-life Americans march for Life in our nation's capital, I was invigorated at the thought that our country has embarked on a new course, respectful of human life from the moment ...

Federal health officials said Thursday they are reconsidering a moratorium on the funding of research in which human tissues are transplanted into early, nonhuman embryos — creating organisms known as ...

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