Britain Abandons Hybrid Embryo Research [Hybrid Embryo]
October 6th, 2009
Research into human/animal “hybrid” embryos has hit a roadblock in the UK with all funding refused, and one of the three leading scientists in the field leaving the country in part, perhaps, due to disillusionment with hostility to his work. Britain’s Independent newspaper reports on what it calls the “driving out” of human/animal embryo research , citing the refusal of funding for three separate projects in the field: Every one of the three projects to develop embryonic stem cells from
