In the realm of genetic engineering and biotechnology, the creation of hybrid animals—organisms that combine genetic material ...

Japan's government approved a request by scientists to conduct stem-cell experiments to create an animal-human hybrid and allow it to be brought to term. Japan's science ministry last week gave ...

Scientists are seeking permission to generate human embryonic stem cells to study disease by introducing human genetic material into an animal oocyte ... one of the first experiments to be ...

In May 2008 a cross-party attempt to ban hybrid human animal embryos was defeated on a free vote in the House of Commons, by 336 to 176. MPs had been debating the Human Fertilisation and ...

The three Rs are: Reduction, Refinement, Replacement. Animal experiments are not used to show that drugs are safe and effective in human beings - they cannot do that. Instead, they are used to ...

Xenotransplantation experiments, generating human organs in animals for transplantation, are being conducted in sheep, pigs, and, recently, in nonhuman primates. Last month, a group of scientists from ...

There is debate in the scientific community about how effective animal experiments are at producing information useful for human health. Proponents argue that animals and humans are genetically ...

As it turns out, the High Evolutionary’s work inspired the experiments that created ... to assess her own human/animal hybrids. The High Evolutionary noted a gap in the Humanimals’ formation ...