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Human-Animal Hybrids: Sick And Twisted Chimeras Are Being Created In Labs All Over The Planet
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[ link to www.technologyreview.com] By Antonio Regalado on January 6, 2016 126 comments Braving a funding ban put in place by America’s top health agency, some U.S. research centers are moving ahead with attempts to grow human tissue inside pigs and sheep with the goal of creating hearts, livers, or other organs needed for transplants. Last September, in a reversal of earlier policy, the National Institutes of Health announced it would not support studies involving such “human-animal chimeras” until it had reviewed the scientific and social implications more closely. The agency, in a statement, said it was worried about the chance that animals’ “cognitive state” could be altered if they ended up with human brain cells.
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