Homicidalheathen Posted July 23, 2008 Posted July 23, 2008 http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/13/1710223 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6230945.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7323298.stm M00 http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/1564/uk...-animal-hybrids http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/science/sy...036;1216774.htm http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article....pe&type=112 http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=4144 While hybrid embryos are easy to produce, they stop developing sooner than expected. "Very few have gone beyond the 32-cell stage," Dr Armstrong said. The microscopic embryos are then three or four days old. The law does not permit the development of a hybrid embryo beyond 14 days - or its implantation into a human or animal womb - but it turns out that nature would prevent this anyway. "The embryos are mostly self-regulating, because they arrest naturally at 32 cells - which is quite good from the ethical point of view," said Dr Armstrong. "There is no way these embryos could develop into a foetus My ghetto nut buddy thinks there is a man cow already walking the face of the earth
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