The federal government is planning to lift a moratorium on funding for research studying the effects of injecting animal embryos with human stem cells, creating half-human half-animal hybrids.

The National Institutes of Health policy would allow federal funding to go toward research creating human-animal embryos known as “chimeras.”

Carrie D. Wolinetz, NIH’s associate director for science, announced Thursday in a blog post that the agency is requesting public comment on expanding funding for such research, signaling the end of a moratorium on the experimentation.

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From earlier in the year...



My first thought after reading this article:

As it was in the days of Noah...