If you could choose to make a human-animal hybrid, what animal would you choose?
Two scientists in the UK have won approval to create human-animal hybrid embryos for "medical research."
The long-running issue of whether to allow production of the embryos - using human DNA implanted into animal eggs - has in the past prompted sensational headlines about "Frankenbunnies". A government white paper published in December 2006 after public consultation originally announced that the creation of chimeras - organisms consisting of at least two genetically different kinds of tissue - and other kinds of interspecies embryos would be banned.
"Frankenbunnies." That's kind-of what we were thinking.
[The Guardian: Q&A: Hybrid embryos]
