Ah, the Brits have gone and done it! Your wildest fears will be a reality. No wait seriously, Fergus Walsh, the medical coorespondant for BBC America announced "Scientists at Newcastle University have created part-human, part-animal hybrid embryos for the first time in the UK." Using human DNA placed in bovine eggs which have been stripped of their genetic material, the scientist have developed a way to grow and harvest stem cells for further research and development.
And the Catholic Church has gone ballistic in their resounding condemnation of this act of science calling it "monstrous."
All hype aside are we talking about minotaurs or microscopic cells? Thankfully only the latter-and at that they are only allowed to grow for 14 days. This interesting solution came about because of a shortage of human eggs so the scientist simply engineered a replacement with governmental approval.
The blending continues.
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Additional note on this story. The scientists are outraged at everyone's idea that the embyonic cells are half human and half animal. They say that the DNA is 100% human and only the egg casing is bovine. But but the media and Church want drama, so we get minotaurs/chimeras instead of facts.
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